kitchen essentials

If your kitchen drawers are just bursting at the seams and you need to pare down, then its time to have a good sort-out. Move out the gadgets and items you rarely use and concentrate only on the equipment worth having. 

Use this list as a guide for some of the essential items no kitchen should be without:

kitchen essentials

Quality knives and sharpening stone
Chopping boards
Set of stainless steel bowls
Spoons – wooden and metal
Hand whisk
Kitchen fork
Sieve
Spatulas
Peeler
Scissors
Graters
Cheese plane
Juicer
Zester
Potato masher
Fish slice
Tongs
Scales
Timer
Measuring spoons, cups and jug
Tea towels

good to have

Set of glass mixing bowls
Garlic press
Kitchen and meat thermometers
Pepper mill
Mortar and pestle
Ice-cream scoop
Soup ladle
Salad spinner
Pastry brushes
Rolling pin