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12 Essential Tools

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

Food Scales
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Food Scales

To measure the correct amount of cheese or to make sure that pieces of meat, poultry and fish are the size specified in the recipe, use a scale. The Salter digital scale is small, lightweight, and accurate. The food service balance scales by Pelouze also work well.

From the All-New Complete Cooking Light Cookbook, Oxmoor House

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