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Best Kitchen Tools

After careful consideration, I have selected the tools that I find most useful in my kitchen. These are my favourite things that I reach for most often. I hope you find my recommendations helpful in setting up or updating your kitchen. But first, if you might need to eat gluten free and haven't read my Start Here page, you might find it helpful, too.

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Tools and Appliances

These are the things that I use in my kitchen to save time and provide value.

open red Thermapen on marble surface

Take the guesswork out of cooking. The Thermapen is so quick and accurate that you can test your food in various places until you find the area with the lowest temperature. That's the part that needs to reach the desired temperature.

NOTE TO CANADIANS: I select Amazon products from the American Amazon.com website. (Although I am Canadian, most of my readers are in the US.) When you click on a product link, you will be taken to the Canadian Amazon.ca site. Where possible, it should link to the same product that I have chosen. However, the product is often ridiculously expensive in Canada. I would recommend that you look around when you get to Amazon.ca and try to find a better deal on a similar product.

The workhorse of my gluten free kitchen is my KitchenAid stand mixer. I put off getting one for much too long. Now that I have it, I wish I had gotten is sooner!

Blendtec Blender

Cuisinart Food Processor

Instant Pot

Wonderful for dairy free milks, yogurt, soups, smoothies, and batters

Handy for chopping, shredding, grating, and mixing

Saves so much time and mess!

Measuring Spoons

These fit nicely into spice jars!

Garlic Press

This one is easy to clean.

Pyrex Measuring Cups

Measure hot and cold liquids accurately.

Kitchen Scales

There's nothing like baking with weights rather than volume. With your mixing bowl on the scales, measure one ingredient, set the tare to zero, and add the next thing!

Pastry Blender

This gets you to that nice, flakey pie crust!

Cast Iron Skillet

Awesome, even heat distribution. With proper seasoning, it's practically "no-stick".

Chef's Knife

At least one good larger knife is essential.

Paring Knife

Add one good paring knife, and you can do almost anything!

Vegetable Peeler

I like my Oxo peeler.

Books

Traditional Meals for the Frugal Family cover with pancakes, soup, pie, and chicken

Traditional Meals for the Frugal Family is based on the wisdom of traditional food diets. These recipes are focused on unprocessed ingredients, pastured animal products, and frugal foods that people have thrived on for generations. The resulting meals are gluten free, almost entirely dairy free, picky eater certified and, most importantly, deeply nourishing.

Meal Plans

Elimination Diet Meal Plan

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