The only five kitchen tools I’d buy again
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I used to be the person with a spiraliser, an egg-cooker and three different graters. Most of it lived in a drawer that jammed every time you opened it. When we downsized to a smaller kitchen I had to be honest about what I actually reached for, and the list was embarrassingly short.
A good chef’s knife I’ve had sharpened twice. One heavy pan that goes from hob to oven. A pair of kitchen scissors that never leaves the magnetic strip. A wooden spoon that has outlived two flatmates. And a digital scale, because baking by feel is how I ruined a lot of butter. Five things, used daily, all bought once and properly.
Everything I write about the home comes back to this: buy slowly, buy once, and let the things that survive your kitchen tell you what you really cook. The roundup below is honest — it carries affiliate links, so a purchase through them pays me a few cents while costing you nothing extra, and I only ever link to things still in my own kitchen.
What I’d take from this
- One excellent knife beats a block of mediocre ones.
- If a tool only does one job, it had better be a job you do weekly.
- A kitchen scale pays for itself the first time you bake bread that works.
Written by Renee Chiang
Writer & home stylist in Singapore. Writing The Folio Edit since 2019 — one home, one honest opinion, no sponsored posts. More about me →
