How to Stock a Kitchen

Before you can start cooking your favorite restaurant recipes you will need to not only have food stock, but cooking supplies too. Here is a quick guide on what to have in your kitchen in order to properly cook your favorite restaurant recipes.

Appliances

A stove with 4 working burners and an oven — It’s very hard to cook these recipes on a hot plate

Microwave – Great for melting butter, warming foods up, and re-heating your left over meals

Toaster – Will come in handy for toasting bread, bagels, and toaster strudels.

Blender – Great for making smoothies, mixing drinks, and blending drinks with ice.

Food Processor – After a while chopping up items can be not only time consuming, but tiresome, a simple 3 cup food processor will do wonders.

Toaster Ovens – great for tiny batches of cookies and grilled cheese along with many of uses

Slow Cooker

Rice Cookers – because a box of rice in a pot just doesn’t compare.

Pots and Pans

1, 2, 4, and 8-quart saucepans with appropriate lids

12″ skillet with appropriate lid

a 6″ or 8″ nonstick skillet

Roasting Pan

2 9″ round cake pans

9″ x 13″ baking pan

9″ x 5″ loaf pan

12 cup muffin tin

2 – 3 cookie sheets

cooling racks

Knives

Chef’s Knife – Particularly one where the blade goes all the way through the handle.

Paring Knife – I recommend buying a good one of these as it will be used the most, especially for peeling/coring fruits and vegetables, cutting small objects, and slicing.

Boning Knife – Great for cutting around meat and bone

Serrated Knife – great for cutting bread

Utility Knives – Plural as you should have at least 2-3 of these “extra” knives in your kitchen for doing tasks such as slicing meats and cheese

Spoons

Wooden spoons – great for mixing

Soup ladle

Slitted spoons – great for taking objects out of soups and liquids

Metal Spoonss

Spatulas

Straight Spatuals

Angled handle Spatulas – great for ‘prying’ objects off of a baking sheet

Rubber scraper spatulars

Mixing Utensils

Wire whisks – Can normally be purchased in a pack that includes 3-4 different sized wisks

Eggbeater

Hand held electric mixer – ideal when mixing potatoes and dough

Measuring Cups and Spoon

I’d suggest having these is various sizes and have at least 2 of each so you do not have to worry about washing them after each time you use a different ingrediant

I’d also suggest getting glass measuring cups with spouts for pouring liquids.

Sieves and colanders

Nested varying size sieves in stainless steel (can double as flour sifters too)

steel or plastic colander – the plastic ones are usually cheap and I’d recommend buying 2-3 of these in varying sizes, the ones that attach to the sink faucet work wonders also.

Miscellaneous

Swivel-bladed vegetable peeler

Rolling pin

Corkscrew

Can Opener (hand held or electric)

Grater with various sized holes (the ones that attach to a plastic container are recommended)

Kitchen timer

Kitchen shears (don’t want to wear out your knives opening food packages)

Meat Thermometer

Kitchen Baster

Garlic Press

Pepper Mill

Granny Fork – perfect for spearing a piece of meat

Multiple cutting mats/boards in different sizes.

Plastic containers for storing left overs or thawing ingredients.

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