5 Tools For The Gourmet Home Chef

If you are on your own for the very first time,anything from chickens and turkeys to large
maybe you are moving into your first apartmentroasts and vegetables all in your kitchen oven. A
or house and you have never really learned howgood size standard roasting pan is about 16 to 22
to cook, but enjoy cooking then it is time for youinches which is big enough to a cook a 20 or 30
to start learning how to cook for yourself. Maybepound meat roast or turkey. The general pan
you are an old hat at home cooking and quitesizes will vary from 14 to 22 inches long and 8 to
accomplished you might not have had all the basic4 inches wide by 5 to 6 inches high. Of course
tools that you need to be totally equipped andthere are electric roasting pans as well that will do
prepared to cook for yourself or friends in thethe job to the same quality specs as a roasting
manner that you want to. Here is a list of somepan that you put in your oven. It is a matter of
basic things you will  need to take you to thechoice for you.
next level from home cook to gourmet home4. You will surely need a large pot or stock pot
chef.with a strainer or for making soups and boiling
1. Kitchen knives. I know this sounds like a give inwater for pasta dishes and it is excellent for
but you would be surprised just how manymaking stews and chili. A good stock pot will also
kitchens in home all across America are being runlet you simmer meats and vegetables for a wide
on poor quality knives that will not give you thearray of recipes. I prefer an 8 to 12 quart pot for
service or presentation that you are looking for. Ifmy daily chores and recommend those sizes for
you have knives that are of poor quality or youmost kitchens. Stock pots will be stainless steel in
have an incomplete set of knives then it is timemost cases with various core options, but there
to replace the poor quality knives with your bestare other forms of stock pots like cast iron with
kitchen knives possible. Quality kitchen knives thatenamel coating and aluminum stock pots. Once
will last a lifetime of service for you.again this is a matter of choice.
2. A saute pan that is either 10 or 12 inches is a5. Along with everything else you should have in
necessary part of any home gourmet chef'syour kitchen is a good quality kitchen cutting
kitchen arsenal. The saute pan is probably theboard like a John Boos cutting board because you
most widely used pan in your kitchen. By the waynever want to cut food on surfaces that are not
the word saute in French mean "to jump." Itdesigned to cut food on. If you are cutting and
means that you are cooking at a high heat andchopping food on surfaces that are not designed
moving the food around quickly with a spatula,for food preparation you are running the risk of
tongs or tossing the food like the cooks do onfood cross contamination and the proliferation of
TV.(just a little quick info for you) It is great pangerms and bacteria in your kitchen. A good quality
for fast frying, searing and making rous as well asJohn Boos cutting board will be made of northern
making killer grilled cheese sandwiches and makinghard rock maple wood and will last a lifetime. The
omelettes and frittatas. The bigger the saute panbest part about this type of cutting board is that
the better.they have been found to be more sanitary than
3. Do you like to cook roasts of different kinds?most synthetic boards on the market today by
Do you like to cook large birds? If you do thenthe National Sanitary Foundations or NSF. I have
you will need to have a roasting pan in yourhad my John Boos cutting board for over 10
kitchen as they are top notch for roastingyears now and they are built to last a lifetime.