Neccessary Kitchen Items

[SamIAm]

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missing a lot of the ingredients. So for cooks what are some key items I need in my kitchen?

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Are you asking aobut ingredients or tools? I think for ingredients, you just end-up building a pantry as you go. I make bread a lot, so I buy more bread flour. You might not, so you don't. On the other hand, if you make more pastry, you buy cake flour. I don't, so I don't.

As for kitchen tools, there was a thread in this forum pretty recently about what you should take to CulinarySchool. I think they called it a "toolkit", for search.

[MissT74]

Salt
Pepper
Flour
Sugar
Paprika
Garlic or Garlic Powder
Onions or Onion Powder
Cooking Oil (Crisco)
Virgin Olive Oil
Cooking Wine
Vanilla
Mrs. Dash

That's what I can think of right now, or also known as what's in my cabinets...LOL

T

[Billy Bibbit]

If you're into cooking ethnic food, one thing that I've found helpful is to eat at a nice restaurant that serves that particular cuisine and ask someone there for advice on where you can find some of the obscure ingredients. In my experience they're usually flattered at your interest and they're more than happy to help you.

For non-perishable ingredients like spices, mail order grocery stores may be your best bet, depending on how small your town is.

[Eagles]

SamIam,
Both utensils and ingredients, more so ingredients though.
Billy,
The town is pretty big acutally it just doesn't have any high end grocery stores like whole foods, trader joes etc

[pokerbobo]

Get a decent set of knives.... beleive it or not, my father in law got me a set of the popiel infomercial knives for xmas last year, and they are actually very good quality for the $$$.

At least one decent frying pan

rubber scraper (must have for any mix in a bowl type stuff) cleans all the mix off the sides of the bowl without scraping over it with a spoon a million times.

wisk

tongs

spatula

all absolutly needed

add any other stuff as you go

[pokerbobo]

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Salt
Pepper
Flour
Sugar
Paprika
Garlic or Garlic Powder
Onions or Onion Powder
Cooking Oil (Crisco)
Virgin Olive Oil
Cooking Wine
Vanilla
Mrs. Dash

That's what I can think of right now, or also known as what's in my cabinets...LOL

T

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this list is a good start....

I would also add some fridge necessities

Lemon Juice
Soy sauce
worchestershire sauce
sour cream
Italian dressing
vinegar

[MissT74]

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Salt
Pepper
Flour
Sugar
Paprika
Garlic or Garlic Powder
Onions or Onion Powder
Cooking Oil (Crisco)
Virgin Olive Oil
Cooking Wine
Vanilla
Mrs. Dash

That's what I can think of right now, or also known as what's in my cabinets...LOL

T

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this list is a good start....

I would also add some fridge necessities

Lemon Juice
Soy sauce
worchestershire sauce
sour cream
Italian dressing
vinegar

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Let me add:

Ketchup
Butter/Margerine or both!
Eggs (they keep for quite some time, actually)
A1 Sauce (if you like it, I don't)
Parmesean Cheese (fake or real, up to you)

Pretty basic, but um yeah!!

T

[Slow Play Ray]

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I would also add some fridge necessities...
Soy sauce
worchestershire sauce...
vinegar

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you don't actually need to keep these things in the fridge, right?

[guids]

Here is what is found in my kitchen at all times:

cumin
onion powder
garlic powder
worchester sauce
brown sugar
salt
pepper
Kosher Salt
chilli powder
extra virgin olive oil
peccorino romano (in freezer, do not buy that fake parm [censored] as suggested earlier)
butter
eggs
onions
garlic
hot sauce
ketchup
brown mustard
various BBQ sauce
large bottle of Carlo Rossi Sangria (cooking/drinking)
Breadcrumbs (freezer)
Lemon Juice


and most importantly

a good daily routine. This is all I have, no meats, no veggies, etc. Im in a routine where I stop by the market everyday for 5 minutes to p/u whatever Im going to cook.

[Slow Play Ray]

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large bottle of Carlo Rossi Sangria

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