23 Essential Kitchen Products All Adults Should Have In Their Kitchen
You need these essentials in your kitchen — no if, ands, or buts!
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1. A heavy-duty stainless-steel fry pan with a lid you'll use to do everything — sauté veggies, whip up gravy, pan fry sausage, make spaghetti sauce, fry up some eggs, and more!
2. A set of non-stick bakeware no kitchen is complete without; so you can make sheet pan dinners, brownies, cakes, and other baked goods!
3. A hand immersion blender that can ~handle~ purees, mashed potatoes, food prep, smoothies, and everything else you've somehow been managing to do without this miracle worker.
4. A revolving 16-jar spice rack for anyone who knows good cooking *revolves* around a well-stocked spice cabinet, but doesn't want to sacrifice the storage space.
5. An investment-worthy Instant Pot capable of browning, steaming, pressure cooking, rice cooking, yogurt making, and more (at speeds way faster than the oven). This babe is a dinner party host's dream come true.
6. A set of stackable measuring cups and spoons so you can stop guesstimating how much a tablespoon is and adding way too much soy sauce to your recipes 😬.
7. Non-slip, color-coded cutting boards to keep you safe as you dice and chop, and the colors will help you remember which cutting board is for veggies vs. meat!
8. A set of stainless steel kitchen utensils that have to be in your kitchen. They are dishwasher-safe, food-safe, and ideal for everyday use.
9. A set of glass mixing/prep bowls perfect for anyone who always forgets to add key ingredients. You can lay everything out in these, and get to cooking like a pro!
10. A 6-cup rice cooker to make you into a multi-tasking kitchen champion. This cooker can make rice while steaming veggies or dumplings at the same time. It can also cook oats, meat, and nearly anything you can throw in it!
11. A good kitchen scale essential for carefully weighing ingredients and getting precise measurements, especially if you're an avid baker!
12. A cast iron pan so durable, it'll probably outlive us all, so you might as well make the most crisp and delish pizza with it while you're still here.
13. A rubber spatula — if you don't have this in your kitchen, how do you get the last pancake out of all the pancake batter stuck to the edge of your bowl?!? End the chaos and add this to your cart.
14. A set of stainless steel mixing bowls with a lid, built-in grater, and no-slip bottom probably giving whatever mixing bowls you currently own some major side-eye right now. I need these in my kitchen!
15. A set of colorful, sharp knives so you can chop, slice, and dice for stir fry in no time.
16. And a handy little knife sharpener to keep the kitchen knives in tip-top shape so they last way longer!
17. BPA-free stacking liquid measuring cups featuring an angled pour spout to avoid drips and keep your measurements in view as you fill these babes up!
18. A classic wooden spoon that's safe to use with all cookware, and is a trusty basic everyone should have.
19. A metal rolling pin featuring rings and a dough chart to help you measure everything out perfectly. Goodbye forever wonky cookies and pie crust!
20. An invesment-worthy Le Creuset Dutch oven you'll honestly be passing down to your grandkids, after you've used it to cook literally everything in, of course. I have one of these and it is the pride and joy of my kitchen!!
21. And a more affordable enameled Dutch oven for anyone who is new to Dutch oven recipes and needs to learn how to make soups, bread, and fried chicken in this babe, for starters.
22. A powerful hand-held vegetable chopper so you can stop shedding tears from dicing onions — just throw that bad boy in here and chop!
23. And a heavy-duty wood chopping block that'll help you dice up meals for the whole family. It's gorgeous enough to use as a serving tray too!
Everyone when they come over and see your well-stocked kitchen:
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