6 Chefs Answer: What’s Your Most Used Kitchen Item?
BY JIMMY SANDISONDiscover the kitchen equipment chefs can’t work without.
Tom Hunt.
IMAGE: PATRICIA NIVEN“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.”
Trine Hahnemann.
IMAGE: PATRICIA NIVEN“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.
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.”
Chris Roberts.
IMAGE: PATRICIA NIVEN“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.”
Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich, Honey & Co.
IMAGE: PATRICIA NIVEN“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.”
Xanthe Gladstone
IMAGE: PATRICIA NIVEN“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.”
