Kitchen utensils are dazzling. There are all kinds of tableware, such as bowls, plates, chopsticks, spoons, knives and forks. Pot, pot, soup pot, casserole, enamel pot, steamer, electric pressure cooker, air fryer, braised pot, rice cooker, microwave oven, oven, steamer, electric baking pan, induction cooker, breakfast machine, bread machine, yogurt machine, soymilk machine, egg boiler, meat grinder, cooking machine, dishwasher and other pots and kitchen appliances are available.
However, more kitchen utensils do not mean that you can cook well and cook more. Many people are keen on buying kitchen utensils, but they don't like cooking food. There is a feeling that Ye Gong likes dragons.
My family belongs to a family with high cooking frequency. If you choose the necessary and frequently used pots and small kitchen appliances, there will be few, mainly woks, rice cookers, microwave ovens, electric pressure cookers, steamer, electric kettle and filter kettle. Other kitchen utensils are dispensable, or used less, or can be replaced with other kitchen utensils, which will not and will not have much influence on my cooking.
A wok, frying, frying, boiling, frying and steaming can basically be solved. I often use it to cook, make soup and make pancakes. I can add a steamer to steam things. My family often makes cakes, scallion cakes, various pies, leek boxes, hand-grabbed cakes, egg cakes and so on for breakfast. I have delivered or exchanged two non-stick pans before. Pancakes are really convenient, but the coating of non-stick pan is easy to fall off and its service life is short. Someone recommended the electric baking pan, and I have been unmoved. Because I use wok to fry pancakes very well, it doesn't affect the effect of pancakes at all, and wok is durable, so I use wok to conquer the world, and one pot is multi-purpose, instead of soup pot, pan, electric baking pan and so on.
The rice cooker mainly cooks rice and has a steaming rack. Steam vegetables or coarse grains when cooking.
Microwave ovens are used to heat milk every day and occasionally to heat rice. Now the food is basically clear, there is no hoarding of food, and the refrigerator is often emptied.
Electric pressure cookers are mainly used to cook beef and mutton, chicken, ribs, pig's trotters and other meat that takes a long time. I also brought a retractable steaming rack, which I often use to steam meat. Electric pressure cookers can also be used for cooking, and rice cookers can actually be eliminated. But there is a rice cooker at home, and I am still used to cooking with it.
Because my family often cooks pasta, I use the steamer more frequently. Often used to steam steamed bread, steamed bread, flower rolls, etc. It is also used to steam vegetables and coarse grains.
Electric kettle and filter kettle are mainly used for drinking water, and water dispensers are eliminated.
There are also some things that are not used very often at home. Such as soymilk machine, oven, induction cooker, bread maker, etc.
Occasionally, soybean milk machine will be used to make miscellaneous grains rice paste, but the number of times is very limited. One is the trouble of cleaning, and the other is that the reservation function is neglected when buying, and it is often too late in the morning. Home appliances for breakfast are best equipped with reservation function to save valuable time in the morning.
When the oven was first bought, it was full of enthusiasm and became a baker. Bread, cakes and biscuits are made in turn, and a lot of baking tools are bought. Then it was idle for six or seven years. Grilled on a whim last summer, grilled fish, roasted chicken wings, etc. Then I leave it idle and bake Si Kang occasionally, which is basically unnecessary. It's hard to please. My family prefers Chinese cakes. If you are not a baking enthusiast, it is not recommended to buy an oven. The procedure is complicated, time-consuming and laborious, and the finished product may not achieve the expected effect, and because it is high in oil and sugar, eating too much is unhealthy. It is better to go to the cake shop and buy less food.
The toaster is a stupid machine. Before buying, think about whether flour is delicious and healthy bread when it goes in and out. Making bread is really simple, but it tastes bad. It is best to make it by hand and bake it in the oven. I bought it and cooked it several times, but no one wanted to eat it. Later, it was mainly used for dough fermentation, but it was finished by hand in 5 minutes when the dough was skillfully mixed, and then it was fermented in the refrigerator for one night and cooked in the morning, which was very convenient. My bread machine mixes the dough 18 minutes, and the dough ferments for one and a half hours. Cleaning the machine is really troublesome. Therefore, the bread machine was also put in the cold for several years.
Two weeks ago, I took out my toaster and prepared to give it one last chance. If you still don't like the bread you make, then eliminate it completely. As a result, I tossed around in the oven and suddenly fell in love with this simple bread. It is not good to eat alone, but it is a good choice as a staple food. Make an appointment at night and there will be hot toast in the morning. The remaining toast slices are frozen. At home or when you don't want to cook, you can fry a piece of bread, an egg, a dish and a glass of milk for a meal. It is also a happy thing to bring the bread machine back to life.
The induction cooker can be used for at most one or two months a year, mainly for eating hot pot in winter.
Once these uncommon kitchen utensils are damaged, they will not be added. Of course, everyone's living habits are different, and the use of kitchen utensils varies from person to person. A's honey is B's arsenic. For example, in a house without natural gas, an induction cooker is a good choice.
If there are too many kitchen utensils, the kitchen will be crowded. A clever woman can't cook without rice, and a clever woman can't cook without rice. It is better to store things cleverly than to simplify them.
Try to buy less kitchen utensils with single function and use more than one thing. Completely idle kitchen utensils are decisively abandoned. When you buy new kitchen utensils, you should abandon the same kind of old kitchen utensils and keep the same ones. Fundamentally reduce the number of kitchen utensils.
Reduce tableware. Use your favorite tableware and throw away the extra ones. All the old plates are used by me to grow flowers and serve as trays for flowerpots. You don't have to buy a whole set of tableware You can choose your favorite bowls, plates and cups one by one and buy them on demand, which is also convenient for everyone to use.
Don't hoard condiments and disposable goods. Buy a bottle after all kinds of condiments are used up, and buy it after the existing stock is used up. Disposable items, such as spoons, chopsticks, straws, paper plates and birthday candles for birthday cakes, have been thrown away. I won't take extra disposable goods with me when shopping.
Don't hoard food. Frozen vegetables shall not exceed 3 days, and frozen food shall not exceed 1 week. Buy it after eating.
There are few items on the kitchen counter, especially small items. There are too many small items, which will be particularly messy. There is often a wok, a rice cooker, a microwave oven, an electric kettle and a filter kettle on the countertop of my kitchen. These samples are used almost every day and are relatively large, so it is convenient to take them out. Put other things in drawers and cabinets immediately after use. Since the bottles of spices were put into the cupboard, the kitchen has become much cleaner and it is not too inconvenient to carry around.
Less kitchen utensils, more kitchen space, less storage time, more cooking time and space.
(Note: The above pictures are all my own foodies. )