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.

Essential Kitchen Tools Kitchen Shears
The All New Complete Cooking Light Cookbook, Oxmoor House 2006
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Kitchen Shears

Keep kitchen shears handy to mince small amounts of herbs, chop canned tomatoes, trim fat from meat, trim skin from poultry, and make slits in bread dough.

Watch our how-to video on using kitchen shears.

 

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