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Class-Up Your Kitchen: 4 Essentials to Feel Like a Chef at Home

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Published
10/02/2024

For many people, the kitchen is the heart of the home. This is where their families are fed, where children update their parents at the end of the school day, where couples dance with each other late at night… With all of this going on, it’s easy to understand why this room should be treated extra special.

If you see yourself as a great cook, this is another reason to class-up your kitchen. A kitchen with all of the gadgets and touches of luxury could turn you from the family cook to feeling like a professional chef.

This article will explore the essential items will improve your cooking experience.

Chef’s Knife

As a multi-purpose kitchen tool, a chef’s knife can be used to chop, dice, and slice ingredients with impressive precision. It can be used with fruit, herbs, meat, nuts, vegetables, etc. This type of knife usually features a sharp point and a curved blade, which allows you to perform a rocking motion with it. It is much more robust and safer than other kitchen knives, including cooks’ knives.

To ensure your chef’s knife is kept in excellent condition, you should also invest in a sharpening stone. This will help to keep the knife’s edge sharp, and it can be used to sharpen other tools, too.

Cast Iron Pan

Cast iron pans are superior over thinner alternatives, like aluminum, and add a little luxury to kitchens. These thicker pans retain heat much better, ensuring food is cooked with a consistent heat instead of a fluctuating heat level. A cast iron pan can be using when braising, frying, roasting, and slow-cooking.

When buying a cast iron pan, you should consider it an investment. This type of pan is durable. It can be used in the oven as well as on the stove, and it develops a nonstick surface when it has been seasoned with oil. Then, when the time comes to clean it, all you need it soap and warm water.

 

Wooden Chopping Board

A wooden chopping board is often viewed as the best option for kitchens. While plastic cutting boards have worried people due to microplastics and hygiene issues, wooden chopping boards are natural and have antibacterial properties, which means they are resistant to bacteria growth.

Chopping boards that have been made of wood, like maple and walnut, are also gentler on knives and other cutlery than the plastic versions, although they will begin to display cutting marks eventually. They will also be heat-resistant, allowing hot pots and pans to rest on the surface.

 

Box Grater

Many kitchens have hand graters, but box graters are much more efficient for large tasks. If you are an individual or live with one other person, then hand graters are perfectly fine; however, families will benefit from box graters. This type of grater has a sturdy base that allows for more rigorous grating, and each side has differently sized holes to finely or thickly grate foods.

With these four items, your kitchen’s aesthetic will be vastly improved. Not only that, but you will have a better cooking experiencing at home, too. 

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