6 Chefs Answer: What’s Your Most Used Kitchen Item?
Discover the kitchen equipment chefs can’t work without.
BY JIMMY SANDISON
XANTHE GLADSTONE
“I would say my Vitamix blender. I bought one recently and it’s been a serious game-changer. I don’t know how I ever coped without one! I use it for smoothies, soups, sauces, whatever. It makes everything seriously smooth and delicious.”
TOM HUNT
“My Peter Swanson plates and bowls. They are beautifully handcrafted and make my food and recipe photographs look beautiful. I love eating from them too.”
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CHRIS ROBERTS
“My cast iron pans. In the kitchen and out on my fire pits. I can’t live without them! Look after them and they will last forever.”
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GILL MELLER
“I think it might have to be my old set of measuring spoons. I use them all the time when I'm writing recipes because the quantities are so important.
They’re made of aluminium and are quite bendy. I hang them on their own hook in the kitchen so I always know where they are. A very useful bit of kit.”
Image: Gill Meller’s Measuring Spoons
TRINE HAHNEMANN
“My most used kitchen items are my knives and my Microplane grater. I have three different Japanese knives by Masahiro, I use them for everything. Then the Microplane for grating cheese, nutmeg, zest and horseradish.
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SARIT AND ITAMAR, Honey & Co.
“Probably a fish slice, it’s a slotted spatula and is great for turning things on frying pans, but can also double up as a quick whisk, a slotted spoon and a second hand when needed. We use ours all the time, in fact, it is so useful, we have two.”
Image by: Patricia Niven
