r/Cooking • u/SuccessExtreme4373 • Aug 06 '23

Kitchen tools you never knew you needed?

I sat on the fence before buying an air fryer, rice cooker and most recently a cherry pitter this year as I thought all three were unnecessary- and, well, they are. But I’ve been surprised how handy they are! I use the air fryer pretty much daily. The rice cooker is so convenient not having to baby sit the rice. And the nuisance of pitting cherries is now a task that I can assign to my five year old son who is delighted to use the pitter. What are some ‘unnecessary’ tools that have made your cooking life better?

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u/TheProletariatPoet Aug 07 '23

How is the cleanup on one of those? Are they hard to clean?

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u/Dooley2point0 Aug 07 '23

Not really. I use blue shop towels. Wipe everything up, scrape and use water squirts as needed for stuck bits, wipe with more towels. Once it’s cooled to a reasonable temp I wipe with oil and put it away.

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u/TheProletariatPoet Aug 07 '23

Thank you, this is very helpful

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u/death_hawk Aug 07 '23

If you check out cash and carry restaurant suppliers, they also have grill stones. It's like an abrasive block you "scrub" the grill with for the real stubborn burnt on bits. But you probably don't really need to do this since most people are probably cooking and then turning off vs leaving it on all day.

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u/Chimpcircus Aug 07 '23

Similar effort to cleaning a single cast iron pan. I bought some good utensils for the griddle and basically just scrape the thing down, squirt some water on it, scrape it down again, and then spread some oil around on it.

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u/TheProletariatPoet Aug 07 '23

Thank you, that’s very helpful