KQOTD: What is your most invaluable Kitchen Tool?
Kelly's Question of the Day.
Yeah.... I'm a sucker for these silly prying question thingies.
Will I ask these daily? Maybe... maybe not, I'll probably ask you these things when my prying curiosity gets the best of me though. This is the first one and certianly not the last!
KQOTD: What is your most invaluable Kitchen Tool?
This is the thing that you use damn near everyday and now that you have
it, you would go into fits and convulse if it ever became lost or
someone took it from you.
I can not cook without them anymore. I have two pairs so I always have one handy. No need to pierce meat and let the juices run out. No scars in your tender veggies from the edge of a spoon mushing up against them. No burning your fingers taking a hot piece of garlic toast off the oven rack.... oh yes. My tongs.
I used to be of school of thought where a good ole fork or a spatula was good enough to do the trick. Oh my friends, not so. I use my tongs for so many things, such as pinching sneaky hands trying to steal a taste and for no slip-off-the-fork-prematurely or slide-off-the-spoon-gaddmit plating. Turning grease spitting angry food with the long reach of the tongs keeping my fingers safe from burns.
I have the OXO Good Grips tongs with a locking thingy to keep the tongs shut when not in use and they have a nice nylon head that is super good for non-stick cookware (Just like the ones in the picture but mine have blue grippy thingies on the end). Yes.... tongs. I love them.
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Oh, I love my OXO tongs too!
(Unfortunately they didn't quite make it into the pictures in this post, but the thought is there.)
Since I'm not allowed to cook, I use my tongs to pinch my daughter's nose. They're excellent for that use and guaranteed to drive the kid nuts, which is my main goal as a mother.
Pot scubber, to get those stuck bits outta the bottom........gets a lot of use round here! I must be improving, haven't had to throw out any pots or pans this year so far! :)
And funnels, I keep getting them and then when I need them I can't find them. Somewhere in this place is a stock pile of all sorts of funnels.
Terie.... I won't be taking your indoor grill... I fear getting cut and I fear you mad grill protecting skillz.
Juggling.... considering how clutzy I am, and how many times I've had stitches for nearly severing fingers and breaking my toes with frozen goat cheese, I'm thinking that juggling is something close to suicidal for me.
Here's a good tip I learned from my mom for cleaning stuck bits out of pans... she was the Queen of stuck bits. She put the pan on the stove, dumped in enough water to cover the stuck bits and turned it up to a boil. As soon as it was a rolling boil, she dumped out the water and like magic the stuck bits came right off. I use this little trick EVERY time I cook.