My Top 3 Kitchen Must Haves

~ Agata @BarkTime

I don’t know how about you but every month we collect more and more kitchen gadgets… they are all useful… to a point, I guess, but we are simply running out of space in the kitchen to store them. With so many new products on the market it is impossible to have them all. Mark is nagging me again to “clean up” some of the less used items… invariable making space for new gadgets to arrive soon 😉

This got me thinking… if I were to get rid of all the less essential kitchen products and were allowed to keep only three things which would three would it be?

Well… my kitchen would have knives, chopping boards and a kitchen timer!

My Top 3 Kitchen Must HavesKnives – they take the number one spot on my kitchen must haves list.

I can’t imagine doing any cooking without a good knife. I am not sure how my gran did it but she used to have one sharp knife… one knife in the entire kitchen and believe me she cooked a lot.

Mark is a little bit knives obsessed, we even had to find a dedicated large kitchen drawer to accommodate all his sharp, proper (how he likes to call them) knives. A good knife can make any cooking related task so much easier… peeling, chopping or slicing when paired with a good, sharp knife isn’t all that scary.

Lately we were given a set of Precision Chef Knives from Edge of Belgravia. Well, each of these knives not only look like a hundred bucks they also perform as one. Despite being stainless steel they feel quite light, almost like a ceramic knife; this said they do offer perfect balance and being super sharp outstanding performance. Highly recommended if you are on the market for new knives.

Chopping boards – this is my must have number two.

I know some people could easily function without a chopping board or boards like in my case, but I can’t.

I used to favour heavy wooden chopping boards until one day when I prepared myself a fruit smoothie with hint of garlic and onion leftover from the night before… well, the board was washed properly of this I am sure but some of the flavours must have imbedded into the knife marks in the board and then stuck to my fruit once I was chopping them up. Since that day we have replaced all the wooden boards with thin plastic ones… I think we got them from Ikea; fairly cheap ones but they come in a selection of colours so it was easy enough to assign a specific colour to a specific type of food that you will be chopping on it. I do like them; they are light and bendy so moving prepared ingredients from a work top to a pot isn’t a big deal and as they are cheap you can replace them more often without breaking your bank balance.

Kitchen timer – third and last spot on my kitchen must haves list.

Well, I know that there are a lot of other useful items I could pick but I am unable to cook without it.

Sometimes I have 1000s of thoughts in my head all at once and the attention span of a toddler so you see without a reminder in the form of a loud buzzing noise I would never remember to remove things from the oven until they are very well done (sacrificial burnt offerings as Mark likes to call them) and most likely uneatable or until the fire alarm reminds me it is time to stop cooking the eggs which were done well before the entirety of the water has evaporated into the air.

My kitchen timer isn’t super lush, I think I picked it up on the cheap from a TKMaxx but it does the job well and that is all that counts.

My fourth would be a temperature reader with a probe but as I only allowed myself three things for this list I can’t have it, bah.

So, these are my top three kitchen must haves.

Which three kitchen essentials would you put on your list?

28 thoughts on “My Top 3 Kitchen Must Haves”

  2. In an ideal world my top kitchen must have would be a proper cappuccino maker 😉 decent scissors and washing up gloves too!! Kaz x

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  4. My knife game could probably be stronger :(. I must admit they hardly even slice! I may have to invest in a sharpener :). I never use a timer either, so this is probably something I should invest in! I usually just cook until I think it’s done.. Something I picked up from my Nana! 🙂

    – A

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  10. Mine would have to be SHARP knives… mine are so blunt at the moment, my boiled egg/dippy egg timer that goes in the pan with the eggs and shows how far cooked through the egg will be, and probably my saucepans! 🙂

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  20. I am so glad that I found your post, because I am a mess in the kitchen and this post was so helpful, I definitely need a kitchen timer, it is really useful. Thanks for the great post and info! 😀

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  23. A good knife is essential. My best knife is around the size of a paring knife, but it’s ultra sharp. I’d like more, but decent knives are quite expensive! As for timers, I don’t know what I did before i had one!

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