re: What are some kitchen must haves? Links to Amazon.com best value items

Folding Meat Thermometer



Infrared Thermometer



Because I like to make pizza:

Dough Board



Baking Stone

I hope everyone keeps posting their kitchen swag. I'm gonna build a nice amazon wishlist


Eta: I'll add a few things this afternoon

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What do you use it for?

Finding the temp of your pizza stone
Temp of oil
Temp of pan on stove

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All of these.

Temp of water when mixing in yeast for dough

I've also used it to read the temp of the air coming out of my ac vent and radiator temp on my car.

Global knives are my new fave. The handle & balance are small-hand friendly, unlike many others in the same price range.

Fire extinguisher--such a good idea. Reminds me I need to replace mine.

Get some decent, absorbent kitchen towels too.

Agree on the absorbent kitchen towels. I think I'd pick those out myself. Friend of mine gives me some from Williams Sonoma from time to time that are damn near moisture resistant. I thought they'd get better after some washings, but they haven't. Usually, the ones I buy there are fine. I'd probably touch the towels myself before buying. I have tons of good kitchen towels, so I just don't use the bad ones. I like to have some of the flower sack towels around as well. They're larger than kitchen towels. I think I got a supply from Target.

my FiL just bought an 'air fryer'? i think..from amazon.

supposedly uses not air to 'fry' food and he was going on and on about it..i guess i should look it up and post it..but surely someone here is familiar with it already.

A good set of knives (I have Henckel).
A good set of cookware (I have calphalon hard anodized and some cast iron).
A food processor (I have a decent kitchen aid. Nothing fancy).
An immersion blender (when I can't be bothered with the food processor).


That's about the extend of my needs for a kitchen. I do like some nice mixing bowls of various sizes.

Also, a mini strainer is really freaking useful to me for some reason.

For both all of that accessory stuff like mixing bowls, measuring cups, and strainers, I use the Architec brand, but that's probably because a local store sells them and my wife likes the aestetics of them. They are good quality though.
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Craft Beer Cook Book

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