12 Essential Kitchen Tools

If you’re a beginner cook, these are the 12 tools you need to get started. Or if you’ve been cooking a long time, you may want to simplify and pare down to these basics.

Stainless Steel Box Grater
Photo: Oxmoor House
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Stainless Steel Box Grater

A box-style grater gives you a choice of hole sizes. Use the smaller holes for grating hard cheese or chocolate and the largest holes for shredding foods like Cheddar cheese or carrots.
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