A Thermapen One is an absolute must to get an accurate internal temperature. Never serve overcooked food again.

Utensils (hand held tools)

• Aeropress coffee maker
• Board scrapper/chopper
• Butane chef’s torches
• Cake pans
• Can/bottle opener
• Cooking chopsticks
• Fish flipper
• Carving fork
• Grater multi-use
• Juicer (reamer)
• Kitchen shears
• Ladle
• Mandolin
• Measuring cups/spoons (all-in-one, see below pictures)
• Microplane
• Oyster shucker (if space available)
• Peeler
• Plastic squeeze bottles
• Pot and skillets silicone lids
• Silicone sauce brush (if space available)
• Silicon heat pad(s)
• Spatulas, square wooden and small curved plastic
• Spoon
• Tea/sprout strainer lids
• Tongs
• Whisks, flat
• Wine opener

Knives and Cutting Boards

• Dalstrong Phantom 7″ Santoku
• Dalstrong Gladiator 2.75″ Bird’s Beak Tourne Peeling Paring
• Dalstrong Extra-Long Slicing & Carving Knife – 14″ – Gladiator Series; crucial for slicing large poultry, pig hams, or meat roasts
• Mercer Culinary Millennia 6-Inch Curved Boning Knife
• Copper Chef knife that I got from a thrift store that I don’t mind brutalizing, that is for cracking crab legs or using it on my plastic cutting board for chicken
• Fish filet knife
• Steel
• Good kitchen shears
• Boos block
• Plastic cutting board

Pans and Pots

• Enameled cast iron dutch oven
• All-Clad 3 quart saucepan
• Large cast iron skillet
• Medium cast-iron skillet*

Misc

• Nested mixing bowls
• Scale

Electric Appliances

• Coffee/spice grinder
• Instant Pot (with sous vide and air fryer functions) – your kitchen is way less messy at the end of your meal, your food tastes incredible, and typically long cooking dishes are finished in a fraction of the time. Most exciting to me, perhaps, is that a pressure cooker allows you to undertake multiple cooking projects at the same time.
• Hot water kettle (if space available)
• Induction burner
• Immersion blender
• Ninja blender with single cup option