Kitchen Gadgets Every Great Chef Needs

If you’re stocking a kitchen, you may benefit from kitchen gadgets that simplify the cooking and baking process considerably.

Although you probably won’t use it everyday, a kitchen scale eliminates the need to convert ounces to volume when using recipes that specify weight. Often these scales are small and require little space to store in your kitchen. Glass measuring cups that indicate both ounces and volume go hand-in-hand with easing the measuring process as well, especially useful for liquid measurements.

Metal sieves have many purposes in the kitchen and if your storage space is tight, can replace a flour sifter. These sieves strain the solids from liquids, remove lumps from powdered sugar or cocoa, and help you aerate flour or incorporate other dry ingredients together.

Tongs are another must-have kitchen gadget for the kitchen or the backyard when grilling. Besides simplifying turning meat on a grill or the frying pan, tongs are useful for pulling a hot sheet of cookies forward to take it out of the oven. Salad tongs make tossing a green salad easy, since the tongs provide a secure grip on the ingredients.

Don’t forget instant-read thermometers. You can cook meat to perfection and know exactly when baked bread and cakes have finished baking.