Essential Kitchen Items - Home Cooks Classroom

When I came up with the idea for this blog I did it with the intention to help teach everyone, no matter their experience level, not only how to cook, but also to be inspired to cook at home. So many other blogs had done that for me, but I often found that most were lacking some crucial information, they only talked about recipes. Now, while knowing recipes, and being inspired by them are important for bettering yourself as a home cook, they are only a small part of the bigger picture. That’s why I felt that if I was going to take on this experiment, I would make sure to cover all of the aspects of cooking, including the parts that you can’t learn through a recipe. So I came up with what I am calling Cooking 101, and today is the first lesson, Essential Kitchen Items.

Now, I could assume that most of you already have all of the basic tools, and or items needed to begin cooking at home, but a good teacher assumes nothing. That’s why we are going to start from the very begin, and if you stay with me, we will both slowly move our way up into the more advanced lessons.

Today is going to be very simple, with no heavy thinking. I will not be explaining what brands are best, what the difference is between different types of knives or pots, or how to properly use said items in today’s lesson, I will cover them all at a later date. All I will be doing now is providing you with a simple checklist of items/tools for the home kitchen that I believe are necessary. If you can check off every item on this list as “owned” then I believe that you should be able to find a way to cook almost everything. So, here we go, class, this is my checklist for essential kitchen items