Alton Brown’s 5 most important kitchen tools
February 8, 2013 by LindsaySerious Eats has been publishing a series of interviews with Alton Brown that are each, in their own way, quite interesting. We wrote about one of them, Will recipes become living things?, in December, and we’ve been meaning to highlight another one that was published last month: Alton Brown’s 5 Essential Pieces of Kitchen Equipment.
We wanted to note this interview because 4 of his 5 essential pieces are a bit out of the ordinary – we know about good knives, but the others are more creative:
- A good kitchen table – people have to eat or cooking is useless
- A sharp knife
- A kitchen spoon – he calls it a “talisman for me” – providing mental comfort
- Light – enough to see, and preferably a mixture of artificial and natural
- Fire – gas, grill, or fireplace – it doesn’t matter what kind as long as it’s the primal element of fire.
In particular, we thought his discussion of a spoon, something that provides mental comfort, was inspiring. We’d bet everyone has something like that in their kitchen – an item that makes you happy to use it. For us, it would be a silicon pastry brush. It’s so useful for evenly coating oil in a pan, but also reminds us of painting – it’s just fun to use. If you have something similar, please share.
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