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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.

Kitchen Shears
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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.
See our how-to video on using kitchen shears.

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

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