My Best Kitchen Gear

To cook effectively, you need effective kitchen gear!

It's the difference between quick, efficient, awesome food preparation and slow, cumbersome, unsatisfactory food prep!

Here's some of my favorites and hard-won lessons. If it's on this page, it's because I think it's awesome.

Roasting Pan



Emile Henry 13" x 9" Large Rectangular Baker - Modern Classics Collection | Rouge11%
Emile Henry 13" x 9" Large Rectangular Baker - Modern Classics Collection | Rouge
$89.95

My favorite awesome roasting pan.

Here's my review of my own pan:

Read my Emile Henry roasting pan review (detailed!)

The pan pictured here is similar to the pan that I have.

Take care to look at the size of the pan you are buying. Otherwise you may get a pan a different size than you expect, because I've seen the pans' sizes stated several different and confusing ways.

How did I decide what kind of pan I wanted? I wrote up all the research I did here:

Read about choosing a roasting pan



Japanese Fruit Knife



I bought a Japanese fruit knife on impulse, years ago.

It solved ALL my problems with oranges, avocados, and similar fruit!

Its sharp, sharp, sharp blade slices right through the peels of difficult-to-peel fruit. Hence the name!

Seki Japan Small Fruit Knife Wooden Handle, 8.5” Small Kitchen Utility Knife, Stainless Steel Blade, Vegetable Knife Paring Knife Pairing Knife Japanese Knives with Cover
Seki Japan Small Fruit Knife Wooden Handle, 8.5” Small Kitchen Utility Knife, Stainless Steel Blade, Vegetable Knife Paring Knife Pairing Knife Japanese Knives with Cover


For whatever reason, it's the wrong tool for slicing soft cucumber or crisp radishes; yet none of my other utility knives really seem up to fruit peel.

This one is exactly like mine, both marked Suncraft on the blade (use the magnifying glass on Amazon to see it). The blade is 3 3/4" long.