What's Your Cheapest and Most Versatile Kitchen Implement?

[Perknose]

For me, hands down, it's MY HANDS. Any dedicated chef will tell you the same.

Cheapest? Yes!

Most versatile? Ditto!

Don't be afraid to get fully involved with your food preparation.

 

[TallBill]

My mouth. It's all pointless without it.

 

[lokiju]

Not cheapest by any means but I get so much use out of my Lodge cast iron cookware.

I have a pizza pan, a 12" skillet and a 5qt chicken fryer and there are just so many other uses for them and the meals are always fantastic that I cook with them.

I made a home made pizza on the pizza pan last weekend and two calazones in the 12" skillet all at the same time.

 

[Pepsei]

my rice cooker.... it's a cheap target rival brand.... at ~$17 it makes good enough rice for me, and i use it to make sweet peanut/tapioca/taro/lotus seeds dessert too.

 

[SMOGZINN]

Originally posted by: Perknose
For me, hands down, it's MY HANDS. Any dedicated chef will tell you the same.

Cheapest? Yes!

Most versatile? Ditto!

Don't be afraid to get fully involved with your food preparation.

My nose, it always knows.
My eyes, they never lie.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: Pepsei
my rice cooker.... it's a cheap target rival brand.... at ~$17 it makes good enough rice for me, and i use it to make sweet peanut/tapioca/taro/lotus seeds dessert too.

Is it that crappy little red one? I have that too, it cost me $12 at Target. The rice is mediocre but it works for my "white-people taste buds"

 

[Turin39789]

oxygen?

 

[Newbian]

Waits for the pie hole maker joke.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: Turin39789
oxygen?

Hydrogen.. the element from which the entire universe was created. If there was no hydrogen, we'd never have oxygen.

Just learned that in geology today.

 

[OCGuy]

My SO.

 

[nageov3t]

non-stick pan from ikea.

does the job with no problems; I use it for almost all of my stove top cooking except the occasional thing that just really needs cast iron (and anything that will go from the stove top into the oven without changing pans)

for like $10, I've never noticed a difference between it and my parents higher end pans.

 

[yllus]

Cast iron skillet, I think. That and a 7" chef's knife.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: Perknose
For me, hands down, it's MY HANDS. Any dedicated chef will tell you the same.

Cheapest? Yes!

Oh yeah? Try to buy a new pair, see what that runs you.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: yllus
Cast iron skillet, I think. That and a 7" chef's knife.

Definitely not cheap...

 

[GasX]

ceramic paring knife

 

[Pepsei]

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: Pepsei
my rice cooker.... it's a cheap target rival brand.... at ~$17 it makes good enough rice for me, and i use it to make sweet peanut/tapioca/taro/lotus seeds dessert too.

Is it that crappy little red one? I have that too, it cost me $12 at Target. The rice is mediocre but it works for my "white-people taste buds"

i got the one model above that... it's non-stick and comes with a thingy for steaming things. i use it in lieu of my bamboo steamers for dimsum.

 

[JulesMaximus]

My feet. Without them I'd never get to the kitchen.