For real LOL I use a paper shredder regularly already, and I thought I was about to discover a new use of it for food. "Wait, I should be shredding my banana peels before getting rid of them??"
I hope you’re also planning to slice this up and drip feed it to the algorithm for two weeks in the form of shorts, I wanna come back here in 2 weeks and admire the wrecked comment section
I was gonna say, after seeing how (financially) well the period of shorts did, I'm surprised this didn't end up that way. I feel like Michael Bluth, watching Gob blurt out a year's worth of proposals in one meeting. Though I guess I'm also not surprised, because authenticity has always been the name of the game here.
@@internetshaquille I watched the video the other day, does it speak on where you're going forward regarding shorts? I don't remember you coming to such a conclusion
I just bought one of those stepladders for my grandmother and she went crazy cleaning the tops of her cabinets and said how it changed her life. I know grams, that is why I purchased it for you.
As an Eritrean, you have to imagine my both shock and huge well of pride that you even mentioned our home spice, Berbere. Always cool to see someone else mention our culture and food!!
As someone who has never heard of it before, it sounds amazing! Definitely going to see if I can get my hand on something and experiment with it. Greetings towards Eritrea!
Having recently just moved out of my parent's house, one thing I miss are all the random kitchen tools that you just don't have when you're starting out again. I really miss the wire rack, the immersion blender, the wok, all the random shit that I wouldn't have bought myself, but my family accumulated after twenty five years at this place.
I only moved out of my parent’s place half a year ago and i feel you. I’ve already acquired almost half of the gadgets I’ve missed through garage sales, never underestimate how much people practically throw out perfectly fine working kitchen gadgets for cheap!
I was the first one to really start cooking in my house as a teen and the rest of the family followed suit. So when I left in my 20s and took all my gadgets and spices, they were the ones who felt the loss lol.
It was definitely terrifying! But he just looked so pleased with himself up there, laughing when I saw him, so I just laughed with him as I got him down. Thankfully, he never did that again, but he definitely was my most adventurous child and is now 33 years old, having never broken a single bone, lol.
I watched that video and still didn't buy one. Had a little scare where I caused a few puffs of fire unintentionally on the stove recently, like what you see in restaurants or something when they're tossing fried rice in a wok and causing small bursts of flame. I bought one that night lmao. The peace of mind it's brought me is too much to put into words tbh. Highly recommend not waiting for a brief kitchen fire scare to buy one like I did!
a million percent this. you can get a decent and appropriately sized kitchen extinguisher for like 30 bucks. think about what even a small fire would do to your kitchen (and possibly the rest of your house/apartment/whatever) and ask yourself if you'd feel super stupid after that happened, if you knew 30 bucks could have prevented it. shame yourself into buying one. imagine hearing a story about someone who's kitchen went up and who didn't have one ready, and how you'd make fun of them. make sure you're not that person.
Dude your videos are such a breath of fresh air with the caveats about "why you should buy". It's perfect advice for a guy who only buys something after wanting it for a year or so.
Love the approach to information communication that you take. You manage to keep the lovely sheen of our desire for accomplished cooking and temper it with the realities that cooking is still somewhat of a mundane task that can't constantly fulfill our desire to have that "Wow!" moment. So many other channels are centered on selling you that idea rather than practical advice, but you do the opposite. You acknowledge we all want to impress someone else, or just ourselves, and you accept that, then equip us with tools and knowledge to do it without breaking the bank. I have to say, the confidence I feel in the kitchen is increased, and it's not only because I know more tips, but because I feel that many, many people out there are rooting for themselves and others to do the same, just like you do here for us. Much gratitude and love my man 🙌❤️🤟
I had to get rid of my chest freezer because at 81, I started having trouble bending over looking for stuff. Although I don't like it as much nor have as much room, my stand-up freezer is my new love.
I got rid of my chest freezer because so much stuff at the lowest levels was getting really old. I would dig down until I found what I wanted and go no further. An upright freezer holds less but is much better at turning over the inventory. Plastic shoe storage boxes with labels makes it easy to see what is there and can be readily pulled out.
i get way more use out of my upright freezer than i did my chest freezer. i come from an area where it's very common to have a freezer and even more than one fridge, but currently live where it's not the norm and people are blown away by the upright freezer.
My chest freezer lived in the garage. About 3 years after I started using it, I started smelling things. Dead things. I located it to the chest freezer and started digging and discovered that the defrost cycle had turned the bottom 10 inches of it, the cubbyhole that lives next to the compressor, into a block of ice. And at the bottom of that was a bag of chicken parts that had decided to decay because of the freeze-heat-freeze cycles. I did everything I could to get the smell of death out of that thing, but in the end I just put it by the street and let the city take it.
Chest freezers are infinitely more efficient. Cold air is heavy. Imagine someone pranked you by filling your bathrooms medicine cabinet with golf balls - got that picture of them spilling out? That’s what happens to your cold air. You lose all of it every time you open the freezer. Sure. For some people the upright freezer makes up for the expense of running it in ease of use. **But** you can also buy stacking plastic bins for your chest freezer too, and get the best of both worlds.
Didn’t know chest freezers weren’t that common till I became an adult. My family’s had the same one in the basement for 30+ years. It’s an essential, especially for a home butcher and/or Costco member.
Grew up in a family with butchers, hunters, and big time carnivores. Chest freezers were essential. These days I live near some local beef farms, and if you ever want to get a deal on half a cow, you definitely need a chest freezer. IMO they should be #1 on the list for most people.
The secret of the bread knife thing is this: It doesn’t need to be sharp. The cheapest one will likely work almost as well as the most expensive one. It’s all about the serration, whether or not it can hold an edge just doesn’t come into it Plus you can use it to cut a thick sandwich in half, or take slices off of a roast lamb or whatever
@@BubbaBearsFriendif you damage the cerrated tips it can become quite dull. Tho I ever saw a dull bread knife in my grandma's house, she's using the same knife for the last 4? decades.
Wire racks are great for cooling freshly baked pizzas to prevent them from getting soggy from the steam. Even 30s-1min can make the pizza crust much better.
4:58 ok but I have been eating the lazy wonton soup with frozen vegetables thrown in for like a year now, since that video was published. And a few months ago Pro Home Cooks yelled at me that I’m not a real home cook if I don’t make chicken stock. So now I have been breaking down a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store, freezing the parts I can’t eat in the next couple days in weighted portions, then making stock with the carcass and using it for my soup.
@@internetshaquille i like calling people moron as much as the next guy but could you explain why we don't have to/shouldn't make chicken stock out of rotisserie chicken carcasses at home? or is it just the wording choice of "not a real home cook" that you disagree with?
@@David.77 whatever man I'm pretty sure you don't understand what I'm actually saying here. Only person that actually called something moronic here was the guy that posted this video. I like Shaq's videos but he's the one that has a history of "bullying others and gatekeeping" when it comes to other food content creators.
Thank you!! My friends don't believe me about the chest freezer, but it's a real game changer! I keep a "soup bag" in mine and throw whatever aromatics work with chicken stock in there along with the wings and bones. Outside of layer of the onion that's slightly too dry, top of celery that gets cut off, herb ends, etc. I also rinse off my baked chicken wing pans and pour the liquid in the bag. Then once it's full I put it in a pot and boil it up with whatever didn't make it in there (usually it's missing either carrots or celery). If I build up too much chicken stock, I add it all into the next batch and reduce it down until it fills fewer containers. I prefer a bag to the deli containers for the pre-soup ingredients because it holds a lot more when full, and takes up less space when empty. It's really flexible!
very first thing me and my partner bought when we first moved in together (with our old roommate) was a refurb chest freezer with cosmetic damage, it has saved us so so so much money lmao
Tip for freezing stock if you make, like, 6 liters at a time like I do - boil it down to 1/2 or 1/4 of what it was to start with and freeze that in smaller containers. Just write the proportion on it and add an appropriate amount of water when you go to use it.
Desperately awaiting the Chest Freezer stocking guide video!! I have been on the fence about it, mostly because I wanted to buy a quarter cow and save some money but more and more things have been looking good like stock, demi glace, marinara sauce, carmalized onyos.
Yes, let's separate ourselves for the sake of cultural identity, which is a byproduct of our parents' intercourse, and not something that we "achieved" through our own doing! Great success! This will surely lead to World Peace!
Tip for chest freezers, use reusable shopping bags to sort and categorize items. It's better than buckets because they can conform to random shapes. Large blue Ikea shopping bags are my go to because they hold so much.
Asked for a chest freezer for my birthday a few years ago and it was one of the best gifts. Local farms will sometimes offer half hogs or quarters of beef. Almost 100 pounds of high quality local meat for not too much. My chest freezer stores all of that.
A restaurant I used to work at mainly had serated bread knives for that reason, we only needed knives for cutting tomatoes and fruit garnishes mostly and they excel at that
Do you ever have a concern with the ink and other paper treatment chemicals mixing in undesirable compounds into your compost soil? Ive never thought about putting shredded paper in compost, im used to it only being wood and dried leaves when ive heard about it in classes.
agree. you probably have no way of knowing which pieces of junk mail contain PFAS, BPA, phthalates, carcinogenic inks etc. not something i would want anywhere near food or plants
Glossy printed paper is mostly fine, laminated is not. Glossy paper is not made with plastics but with clay, specifically kaolinite. It’s mostly safe, but there is a small risk if fine powder is inhaled. I’d also watch out for the plastic windows in envelopes
Man, you're my very favorite RUclipsr and have been for a while. As I get older, I get more into cooking, and I really take all your advice to heart. You have an amazing way of explaining concepts that makes me feel like a friend of many years is casually sharing knowledge. Thanks for all you do.
5:40 In addition to Berbere I would add "Five Spice Powder" to keep as a kitchen staple. Homemade is exceptional. "Five Spice" honors the five elements of earth, fire, water, wood and metal. This can be used for sweet and savory dishes. INGREDIENTS: 1 cinnamon stick 3 star anise 2 tsp of Sichuan peppercorn 1/2 tsp of fennel seeds 1/2 tsp of white pepper 1/2 tsp of black pepper Half of a black cardamon 4 pieces of cloves 1 piece of aged tangerine peel (1.5*1.5 inch) 1 tsp of ginger powder INSTRUCTIONS 1) Toast all the spices in a wok or a cast-iron skillet over low heat for a few minutes to evaporate the moisture and activate the aroma. If you have a couple of spices that are already a powder form, reserve, and mix at the end. 2) Let the spices cool before putting them into a spice grinder. 3) Blend the spices as fine as possible. Mix with the reserved spice powder. 4) Store the five-spice powder in a sealable container. Note: Don’t make too much at one time because the aroma does get weaker if you let it sit for too long. I normally just make an oz, which will last me 2-3 months.
@@lisaphares2286 knives are sharp thank you. Could always be sharper of course, but the serrated knife is really a life saver- specifically for the bread loaf cutting
I reckon you already know of this spice mix since you know Berbere but I personally LOVE the exact same oven roasted Broccoli with Ras el hanout! Looking at the ingredient list it's pretty similar, but it's absolutely brilliant! Mix it with some sour cream or joghurt and lemon juice and now you also have a fresh dipping sauce for the aforementioned Broccoli tossed in the stuff that brings a whole different level of complexity and earthyness.
Do qt containers count as a kitchen tool? Because if they do i hope they make it on a list. I use to have those glass containers to store stuff but it just becomes a hassle with the different sizes. On the other hand having the containers that can hold things while i prep ingrediants or when i need to store them has made prep and storage so convient. They fit together so well that stacking and storage is actually predictable instead of playing some messed up game of tetris when i want to store things
I really agree with everything in this video. Especially about bread knives, I bought myself 3 nice knives when I started cooking more. A pairing knife, a chef's knife, and a bread knife. my bread knife has been used maybe a total of 3 times in 2 years lol. You really just can't beat a sharp blade to handle almost any task
Hey Internet Shaqulle! While I like your idea of integrating your junk mail into your compost pile you need to be very careful about what you shred and ultimately use in your garden. This is due to the fact many printed materials as well as the paper they are printed on, often contain heavy metals that can adversely effect your health. If you were to use compost containing heavy metals in your garden your plants and vegetables can absorb those heavy metals and you can subsequently ingest them upon consumption. This is also why you should never use glossy printed cardboard in your garden as a ground cover or composting material. Only plain brown cardboard or cardboard with plain matte printing. Cheers!
7:10 big agree, a well maintained chef knife will cleave thru even the crustiest of loaves with ease. Only serrated knives I keep around are those Victorinox paring knives for small jobs that are usually in a 5$ bucket at your local kitchen goods store.
A scalloped bread knife is the best alrounder to have. Its great for bread but also for vegetables like tomatoes or peppers since it makes the sharpeness of you chefs knife live that much longer. I dont have one now but i had one at work and it was one of my most used tools.
1:30 Interesting, I have it the other way around. I don't feel like I need a blender (I have one right now but it's connected to a terrible stand mixer so I'm about to throw both out soon) but an immersion blender does basically all I need.
I experienced the same wire rack epiphany Shaq describes here. So many uses. For instance: essential for elevating a steak during the oven stage of the reverse-sear method.
You have no idea how happy I am to see berbere in this video (and finally know how to pronouce it). I discovered it through an Ethiopian restaurant where I had gored gored. And I came home absolutely needing more of it. I like to add a touch of lime juice with it when I can. My favorite use is a chicken dip that is basically buffalo dip but with lime juice and berbere instead of hot sauce. Because of my personal dietary restrictions, I now make it with coconut milk/cream instead of mayo and cream cheese. The hot dip works with tortilla chips or over rice as a meal. So good and it freezes well too!
have you ever tried a fine serated knife? the spikes have to be tiny, it really makes a difference I feel like you squish a fresh soft bread when cutting it with a normal blade because you need to press down, but the extra friction here means you can just go back and forth and it goes through
1:51 funny you say this because my Bosch immersion blender that just so happens to have a whisk icon on it- does NOT have a compatible whisk attachment… I contacted their customer support directly and apparently they don’t make them for that model ??? never buy an ergomixx you will only be disappointed (and end up spending 5 minutes whipping ((blending)) cream instead of 30 seconds)
My family bought a large, up market food processor a few years ago and we barely ever use it. The particular design it has involves a whole bunch of extraneous bits that get dirty whenever it's used. On the other hand we have a mini food processor that's basically an add-on for our immersion blender, and it's been used constantly for years. It's slightly less convenient to need to break up large jobs into smaller batches, but the size factor plus ease of use and cleaning more than make up for it IMO. Something you absolutely should think about getting if you buy an immersion blender (which is also a brilliant tool).
Echoing the chest freezer recommendation! My wife and I also bought one right before our first child was born and it was probably one of the best purchases I've ever made in my life. So useful. We pre-prepped a bunch of food prior to our son being born and it was a life saver on the sleep deprived days.
Besides berbere, there's mitmita. According to the waitress at my local ethiopian restaurant, berebere is mosty used for cooking, while mitmita is used for seasoning or dipping.
I watch these videos on desktop and, when the ad reads begin (for creators that I enjoy), I pull up my phone and check emails. That way, YT analytics thinks I watched it through and gives the creator whatever positive effects that result (if any? the algorithm mystifies me beyond the baseline subs/comments/likes leading to being pushed more). I have to say that I found your ad read pretty persuasive enough without even looking at it that I properly watched it halfway through to the end. I'm not sure if I'll purchase the probiotic, but I'm definitely checking it out and using the code if I do want to try it out. I really do appreciate appreciate how straightforward and matter-of-fact you are with those. It was fun the first few times, but I'm honestly sick of creators trying to make skits or otherwise seamlessly transition into their ad reads.
Great list. Most of these items would be very useful to most homes. I don’t have a garden so composting is worthless to me. I don’t buy whole chickens nor care for it so the chicken scissors wouldn’t be for me But last year I bought an immersion blender and a food processor. While I could get by without them, they really are amazing for me!
I'll say about the bread knife that I love mine. I bought a cheapo Dexter Russell 12" blade one for $20 and it's great. Need to cut bread? Done. Need to open a big squash? Can do. It's not necessary, but it's nice to have. And you don't need to spend a bunch to get one. And they are hard to sharpen, but the serrations make it stay sharp for a long long time.
In the same vein I recently got a meat cleaver. I love it for pumpkins, carving up a whole chicken or anything else that might've needed more forc. I noticed several hanging in the background.
Amazing to see someone talk about Berbere, been using it myself for years now (and turned some others onto it). It's absolutely amazing, smells great too.
I'm surprised about the shears -- they're super common where I'm from, everyone has a pair of "kitchen scissors" as far as I know. Fun use case: cut pizza with the scissors, it works surprisingly well
"Unnecessary" feels like a negative trait, but I totally get it. Lots of my favorite kitchen things arent essential. Maybe I take those for granted, but it's the things that I dont need but which make cooking so much easier that really shine.
You had me for a minute with the paper shredder. I thought you were shredding your veggie scraps lol. +1 for the step ladder. My wife’s grandma gave us a stepladder and stepstool set for a wedding gift almost 20 years ago. They have followed us through several cross country moves and we have even bought two other matching stools for kids bathrooms.
i find it hard to do kitchen maintenance like oiling cutting boards or sharpening knives so i have a serrated chefs knife! had it 5 years and never had to sharpen it. it can slice just as good as it did out the box. really appreciate that sentiment at the end about finding what kitchen problems you need solving
excellent calls on the step stool and the shears. I have both and they are both a million percent worth the price of admission. and as you point out, poultry shears aren't just for poultry. very handy for lots of stuff.
I agree about the bread knife. I got into bread making and was going to get a fancy high carbon steel one, then realized my cheap (but sharpened) chef's knives were more than capable. In fact, using a chef's knife to cut smooth pieces of bread with no crumbs flying everywhere is now my favorite part of baking bread!
for someone who likes baking bread, a bread knife seems to me, the best way to slice it up. but i only ever use it when i make bread. maybe i’ll have to try sharpening my knife better to see if that works well for me
No bread knife is definitely the hottest take I’ve ever heard on this channel. I guess you don’t need a good one but it’s the best for cutting anything with a rind. Also big stuff like cubing meat for a braise. I guess now that I’m thinking about it, it’s not that necessary but as a bartender cutting citrus is a way bigger thing for me lol
7:00 When talking about the silicone scrapers though, you need the ones where the scraper and the handle are all one piece. not the ones with the wood handles and the silicone top.
In terms of the bread knife, I'm a fan of the America's Test Kitchen recommended Mercer Culinary 10-inch Bread Knife. Only 20 bucks. Very heavy and durable.
Love the advice at the end. Solve the problems *you're* having, rather than going off of strangers' advice and striving for a platonic ideal you don't care about. I'm primarily a musician, and this is advice I would give to my colleagues, students, or really any creative person in a field saturated by commercial marketing of gear that will magically solve all our problems for just $399.
I only use the bread knife for bagels. Bagels are such a weird shape to hold in my hand so the grippy blade of the bread knife keeps the blade from sliding off the hard, smooth shell of the bagel.
Kitchen utensils are weird. We have multiple nice pans that we have never used. Meanwhile we have a plug-in egg steamer that my entire family made fun of me for buying because it literally does one and only one thing. But we use that egg steamer every single morning, and it helps that the machine is very automated and most importantly doesn’t take up space on the oven, allowing us to cook breakfast and lunch in parallel.
7:09 I would like to defend serrated knives a bit. I'm a home baker who specializes is cakes and I can say a serrated knife is a vital tool. I'm not nearly brave enough to attempt to level a cake with a straight edged blade and I would never recommend it. If the knife slips, it's a one way ticket to the emergency room. A serrated knife is also good for cutting delicate crumbs because it encourages a sawing motion rather than a chopping motion, which often smashes rather than cuts. All that said, I doubt someone who never bakes or cuts their own bread would ever need it. I would still recommend having a decent one on standby in case you do need it considering a knife generally doesn't take up much space.
I use my bread knife for 'sawing' up a pineapple, which it's excellent at... that's about all it's good for except the rare cases that I actually have fancy bread... but I think all the other 'products' you mentioned are my low key favorites. Except my step ladder is covered in paint, caulk and other building stuff.
I started buying sourdough bread from my local lidl since I wanted to try it out, and every time I tried using a knife it messed up the bread. now that I'm wiser, I realise it was probably not sharp enough but ever since then I've used the ame bread knife and it still manages to get through the hard skin
The kitchen ladder is essential. I use it for the high cabinets (I’m 5’8”) and is great for dusting above window moulding, changing light bulbs, cleaning the top of the fridge, assembling a gazebo on our deck, and painting walls. I’m sure I’ll find other uses. The chest freezer saves so much money. I can buy large quantities of meat on sale and when prices go up, I shop my freezer. I also collect trimmings from veg to make my dog’s food and freeze them. Then freeze the prepared food.
for a bread knife that's worth it i recommend victorinox fibrox or swiss classic for like 20 to 30 bucks. it has a rounded tip and the blade is only slightly tapered, so it will also work as sort of a spatula. i feel like paying premium for a knife you probably only use for bread and sometimes tomato shouldn't cost more than that.
I'm a big composting enthusiast and I had no idea about the paper shredding technology. I will definitely be carbonizing my compost pile as all the problems you mentioned were popping up for me ...
Holy crap your sound design is awesome! Love your videos, but I just got new headphones so I only just now get to appreciate how good the video sounds. Whatever you're doing, keep it up and thanks for all your hard work!
The wire rack in our house is used for cookies fresh from the oven. You scrape them off the baking sheet and leave them on the wire rack to cool so that they don’t continue to bake get any darker on the bottom after they’ve been removed from the oven.
I’ll be honest, I’m no longer on team bread knife… I’ve recently had to refurnish my kitchen from scratch, so I’ve got new, extremely sharp knives. And both my chef’s knife and utility knife have done great work against tough crusty breads. Maybe my tune will change once I get lax on keeping my blades sharp, we’ll see!
We're not chest freezer people, the shape just doesn't work for us. In Jan of 2020 we took delivery of an upright freezer as our Christmas gift.Let's just say the timing could not have been better and it's invaluable.
Uprights are less energy efficient but generally bigger, and they're way easier to organize, and they don't collect defrost water in the bottom and freeze it onto a block with that stuff you didn't organize rotting in it...
I adore using a big laundry basket that's like 1 meter tall or so as my go to basket for throwing plastic trash away. One thing that's inevitable from happening in the kitchen ( or outside the kitchen) is producing plastic trash. Every day there's tons of products using plastic and it piles up quicker than people care about. It all seems small but it piles up quick. With a big enough basket I can put in a large plastic sack and have a better overview over how much I throw away. Its also easier to sort my trash based on the containers my food came with. Rinse, fold and play a little every day life tetris game to stack my trash up properly to reduce my trash taking too much space and the day before the garbage collectors are coming, its one quick grap and knot away from being collected. Its a mundane little thing but I prefer that over the tiny buckets most people hide under the sink. It did end up being far more convenient than other standard methods of house hold garbage disposels and if you live alone, or with several people , you can conveniently place that anywhere in the home and it don't stand out like a sore thumb. Cheap , light and aesthetically pleasing to your home styles.
I bought drum sticks not knowing my daughter didn’t like drum sticks for her birthday. Kitchen shears were a godsend cutting all the meat off those bones so I could still fry the meat without the bone. 10/10, made it so easy after I tried using a few different knives then grabbed the scissors in frustration.
Hit the nail on the head 30 sec in… I always take out one of my oven racks for my wire rack. I also lost my food processor blade 6 months ago… found out the immersion blender makes hummus even better
LOVE your closer. Slicing ham has been the only thing a long serrated knife has been better at than my ridiculously sharp Chef knife, or just basic straigh edged slicer. Thanks
I've spent years obsessed with Berbere, making or buying at least 100 variations. You can pursue kinds with hard to source Ethiopian spices, but the best and most approchable version for most people remains Chef John's recipe for the stuff on his Foodwishes channel.
100% agree with the bread knife take. Truth be told a razor sharp knife will slice through crusty bread very easily, you just need to saw back and forth and let gravity do the work to get it started. I think a lot of people don't realize how dull their knives truly are, which is why they think they need a specialty knife to get the job done.
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I really thought you were about to put those banana peels in the paper shredder lol
If he did that and was successful I’d have purchased a paper shredder online before the end of the video
Me too :DD
For real LOL I use a paper shredder regularly already, and I thought I was about to discover a new use of it for food. "Wait, I should be shredding my banana peels before getting rid of them??"
Well actually breaking them up into smaller pieces accelerates composting, at least aerobically. No idea if it helps with vermicomposting
same xd
I hope you’re also planning to slice this up and drip feed it to the algorithm for two weeks in the form of shorts, I wanna come back here in 2 weeks and admire the wrecked comment section
I was gonna say, after seeing how (financially) well the period of shorts did, I'm surprised this didn't end up that way. I feel like Michael Bluth, watching Gob blurt out a year's worth of proposals in one meeting.
Though I guess I'm also not surprised, because authenticity has always been the name of the game here.
Here’s how I feel about posting Shorts:
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@@internetshaquille I watched the video the other day, does it speak on where you're going forward regarding shorts? I don't remember you coming to such a conclusion
Bringing in the Extranet lore 👌👌
@@JuanRodriguez-wr5ewhe leaves it open to interpretation, truly the Scorsese of RUclips shorts
I just bought one of those stepladders for my grandmother and she went crazy cleaning the tops of her cabinets and said how it changed her life. I know grams, that is why I purchased it for you.
Wholesome 💯
That is the sweetest thing ever! You are so nice!
Gotta show love to the gramsters
As an Eritrean, you have to imagine my both shock and huge well of pride that you even mentioned our home spice, Berbere. Always cool to see someone else mention our culture and food!!
As someone who has never heard of it before, it sounds amazing! Definitely going to see if I can get my hand on something and experiment with it. Greetings towards Eritrea!
Having recently just moved out of my parent's house, one thing I miss are all the random kitchen tools that you just don't have when you're starting out again. I really miss the wire rack, the immersion blender, the wok, all the random shit that I wouldn't have bought myself, but my family accumulated after twenty five years at this place.
I only moved out of my parent’s place half a year ago and i feel you.
I’ve already acquired almost half of the gadgets I’ve missed through garage sales, never underestimate how much people practically throw out perfectly fine working kitchen gadgets for cheap!
@@bonebrokebuddy5248 That's a great tip, thanks!
I was the first one to really start cooking in my house as a teen and the rest of the family followed suit.
So when I left in my 20s and took all my gadgets and spices, they were the ones who felt the loss lol.
I’m moving out next year and already morning the loss of my parents beautifully seasoned ancient cast iron pans.
@@felesnocismake sure to get your folks to put it in their wills that the pans go to you.
Better than any family jewelry imo
I’m glad you have a stepladder to help you reach the baby when he climbs up the cabinets.
I had one of my babies climb up on top of the fridge at 14 months old, lol.
@@cheriekalel9578 Oh no! LOL! That sounds terrifying.
It was definitely terrifying! But he just looked so pleased with himself up there, laughing when I saw him, so I just laughed with him as I got him down. Thankfully, he never did that again, but he definitely was my most adventurous child and is now 33 years old, having never broken a single bone, lol.
I'm just here to request that you never stop posting the meme dumps on your Instagram. They are top tier.
wtf, I've been following Shaq for years, but I've just found out about this now. I don't use Instagram a lot, but still.
@@lexotansteele2755 It's a new thing and he's been killing it. I see him following a lot of relatively obscure accounts too. Our boy has taste.
A chapter *clearly* labeled "Paid Ad for Seed"?
I f'ng love you. You *define* the meaning of 'good human'.
I don't seed torrent I don't watch ads thanks dad
Shoutout for the GOAT: fire extinguisher.
Seriously, it's the bare minimum for safety, y'all.
I watched that video and still didn't buy one. Had a little scare where I caused a few puffs of fire unintentionally on the stove recently, like what you see in restaurants or something when they're tossing fried rice in a wok and causing small bursts of flame. I bought one that night lmao. The peace of mind it's brought me is too much to put into words tbh. Highly recommend not waiting for a brief kitchen fire scare to buy one like I did!
I bought one after that video. I don't have a good place to store it so it's currently leaning against a wall just outside of my kitchen.
a million percent this. you can get a decent and appropriately sized kitchen extinguisher for like 30 bucks. think about what even a small fire would do to your kitchen (and possibly the rest of your house/apartment/whatever) and ask yourself if you'd feel super stupid after that happened, if you knew 30 bucks could have prevented it. shame yourself into buying one. imagine hearing a story about someone who's kitchen went up and who didn't have one ready, and how you'd make fun of them. make sure you're not that person.
Dude your videos are such a breath of fresh air with the caveats about "why you should buy". It's perfect advice for a guy who only buys something after wanting it for a year or so.
Love the approach to information communication that you take. You manage to keep the lovely sheen of our desire for accomplished cooking and temper it with the realities that cooking is still somewhat of a mundane task that can't constantly fulfill our desire to have that "Wow!" moment. So many other channels are centered on selling you that idea rather than practical advice, but you do the opposite. You acknowledge we all want to impress someone else, or just ourselves, and you accept that, then equip us with tools and knowledge to do it without breaking the bank.
I have to say, the confidence I feel in the kitchen is increased, and it's not only because I know more tips, but because I feel that many, many people out there are rooting for themselves and others to do the same, just like you do here for us.
Much gratitude and love my man 🙌❤️🤟
🥲 ty
Amazing comment, man.
There comes an age when stepladders in the kitchen can no longer be called "unnecessary" and it isn't as old as you might hope...
yeah I'm not standing on a wobbly wooden chair in my 40s
I broke my ankle at a fit 21 bro, I've felt this for the past 10yrs lol @@cranbell99
or just be taller than 5'8 💀💀💀
6'3" reporting in, what's a step ladder?
@@zhernandoz43well thanks, I’ll make sure to try that
I had to get rid of my chest freezer because at 81, I started having trouble bending over looking for stuff. Although I don't like it as much nor have as much room, my stand-up freezer is my new love.
Stand freezer is the bomb. No more digging around for stuff.
I got rid of my chest freezer because so much stuff at the lowest levels was getting really old. I would dig down until I found what I wanted and go no further. An upright freezer holds less but is much better at turning over the inventory. Plastic shoe storage boxes with labels makes it easy to see what is there and can be readily pulled out.
i get way more use out of my upright freezer than i did my chest freezer. i come from an area where it's very common to have a freezer and even more than one fridge, but currently live where it's not the norm and people are blown away by the upright freezer.
My chest freezer lived in the garage. About 3 years after I started using it, I started smelling things. Dead things. I located it to the chest freezer and started digging and discovered that the defrost cycle had turned the bottom 10 inches of it, the cubbyhole that lives next to the compressor, into a block of ice. And at the bottom of that was a bag of chicken parts that had decided to decay because of the freeze-heat-freeze cycles. I did everything I could to get the smell of death out of that thing, but in the end I just put it by the street and let the city take it.
Chest freezers are infinitely more efficient. Cold air is heavy. Imagine someone pranked you by filling your bathrooms medicine cabinet with golf balls - got that picture of them spilling out? That’s what happens to your cold air. You lose all of it every time you open the freezer.
Sure. For some people the upright freezer makes up for the expense of running it in ease of use.
**But** you can also buy stacking plastic bins for your chest freezer too, and get the best of both worlds.
That "little kiss" on the paper shredder made me break out into laughter
Didn’t know chest freezers weren’t that common till I became an adult. My family’s had the same one in the basement for 30+ years. It’s an essential, especially for a home butcher and/or Costco member.
Grew up in a family with butchers, hunters, and big time carnivores. Chest freezers were essential.
These days I live near some local beef farms, and if you ever want to get a deal on half a cow, you definitely need a chest freezer.
IMO they should be #1 on the list for most people.
Seems like most people that have one, it is where food goes to die lol. They always seem to full filled to the brim, but never really touched.
The secret of the bread knife thing is this:
It doesn’t need to be sharp. The cheapest one will likely work almost as well as the most expensive one. It’s all about the serration, whether or not it can hold an edge just doesn’t come into it
Plus you can use it to cut a thick sandwich in half, or take slices off of a roast lamb or whatever
Also he wants to "sharpen" a bread knife? What is he cutting with it to dull it so much that it can't cut bread? Bones?
@@BubbaBearsFriend any knife will dull with use over time. the 100th loaf sliced will not be as easy as the 1st.
@@BubbaBearsFriendif you damage the cerrated tips it can become quite dull. Tho I ever saw a dull bread knife in my grandma's house, she's using the same knife for the last 4? decades.
I mostly end up using my big bread knife to cut through a chunky yam. Those things are hard!
true, mine is from a dollar store and is about 10 years old.
Wire racks are great for cooling freshly baked pizzas to prevent them from getting soggy from the steam. Even 30s-1min can make the pizza crust much better.
4:58 ok but I have been eating the lazy wonton soup with frozen vegetables thrown in for like a year now, since that video was published. And a few months ago Pro Home Cooks yelled at me that I’m not a real home cook if I don’t make chicken stock. So now I have been breaking down a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store, freezing the parts I can’t eat in the next couple days in weighted portions, then making stock with the carcass and using it for my soup.
A pro home cook sounds like an oxymoron
and the statement quoted drops the oxy 😛
@@internetshaquille i like calling people moron as much as the next guy but could you explain why we don't have to/shouldn't make chicken stock out of rotisserie chicken carcasses at home? or is it just the wording choice of "not a real home cook" that you disagree with?
@@bingusman69It’s cool to advocate good advice, but bullying others and gatekeeping isn’t something one should strive to do
@@David.77 whatever man I'm pretty sure you don't understand what I'm actually saying here. Only person that actually called something moronic here was the guy that posted this video. I like Shaq's videos but he's the one that has a history of "bullying others and gatekeeping" when it comes to other food content creators.
Thank you!! My friends don't believe me about the chest freezer, but it's a real game changer!
I keep a "soup bag" in mine and throw whatever aromatics work with chicken stock in there along with the wings and bones. Outside of layer of the onion that's slightly too dry, top of celery that gets cut off, herb ends, etc. I also rinse off my baked chicken wing pans and pour the liquid in the bag. Then once it's full I put it in a pot and boil it up with whatever didn't make it in there (usually it's missing either carrots or celery). If I build up too much chicken stock, I add it all into the next batch and reduce it down until it fills fewer containers.
I prefer a bag to the deli containers for the pre-soup ingredients because it holds a lot more when full, and takes up less space when empty. It's really flexible!
very first thing me and my partner bought when we first moved in together (with our old roommate) was a refurb chest freezer with cosmetic damage, it has saved us so so so much money lmao
I grew up with one, and man do I miss having it. I dread playing freezer tetris after grocery shopping in the teensy freezer my apartment fridge has.
I’ve never liked the chest freezers. Much prefer the stand up variety. Easier to organize without concern of something getting buried and forgotten.
Caught me off guard getting straight into the first point like that, I love it.
That was one of the slickest intros I've seen
I agree about the step ladder. It seemed to open up a large portion of my kitchen that was now being utilized
Tip for freezing stock if you make, like, 6 liters at a time like I do - boil it down to 1/2 or 1/4 of what it was to start with and freeze that in smaller containers. Just write the proportion on it and add an appropriate amount of water when you go to use it.
Desperately awaiting the Chest Freezer stocking guide video!! I have been on the fence about it, mostly because I wanted to buy a quarter cow and save some money but more and more things have been looking good like stock, demi glace, marinara sauce, carmalized onyos.
East Africans, gather here. Shout out to the Berbere plug! Subscribed.
Yes, let's separate ourselves for the sake of cultural identity, which is a byproduct of our parents' intercourse, and not something that we "achieved" through our own doing! Great success! This will surely lead to World Peace!
@@dpclerks09 You okay there buddy?
Tip for chest freezers, use reusable shopping bags to sort and categorize items. It's better than buckets because they can conform to random shapes.
Large blue Ikea shopping bags are my go to because they hold so much.
Asked for a chest freezer for my birthday a few years ago and it was one of the best gifts. Local farms will sometimes offer half hogs or quarters of beef. Almost 100 pounds of high quality local meat for not too much. My chest freezer stores all of that.
Dang! I guess you don't live in a city then. Right?
I'm a fan of the bread knife. Great for cutting tomatoes and other things that squish easily when cut without a super-sharp knife.
Same for leveling a cake.
If you have steak knives they'll work for small stuff like tomates (or like, cutting open annoying packaging)
I use them for breaking down cardboard boxes
A restaurant I used to work at mainly had serated bread knives for that reason, we only needed knives for cutting tomatoes and fruit garnishes mostly and they excel at that
Just sharpen your knife instead 😉
I love that you emphasize the importance of safety. The fire extinguisher video is one of my favorites.
Do you ever have a concern with the ink and other paper treatment chemicals mixing in undesirable compounds into your compost soil? Ive never thought about putting shredded paper in compost, im used to it only being wood and dried leaves when ive heard about it in classes.
As a composter myself, nah. It can't be worse than the lead in the oil, pesticides in the food I buy and microplastics in my uterus.
it's all hydrocarbons in the end
agree. you probably have no way of knowing which pieces of junk mail contain PFAS, BPA, phthalates, carcinogenic inks etc. not something i would want anywhere near food or plants
@@handlesshouldntdefaulttonames the dose makes the poison. the “in for a penny in for a pound” mentality is defeatist and unscientific
Glossy printed paper is mostly fine, laminated is not. Glossy paper is not made with plastics but with clay, specifically kaolinite. It’s mostly safe, but there is a small risk if fine powder is inhaled. I’d also watch out for the plastic windows in envelopes
wire racks are also good for putting fresh cookies on, they cool much faster than keeping them on the tray or a plate.
Man, you're my very favorite RUclipsr and have been for a while. As I get older, I get more into cooking, and I really take all your advice to heart. You have an amazing way of explaining concepts that makes me feel like a friend of many years is casually sharing knowledge. Thanks for all you do.
5:40 In addition to Berbere I would add "Five Spice Powder" to keep as a kitchen staple. Homemade is exceptional. "Five Spice" honors the five elements of earth, fire, water, wood and metal. This can be used for sweet and savory dishes.
INGREDIENTS:
1 cinnamon stick
3 star anise
2 tsp of Sichuan peppercorn
1/2 tsp of fennel seeds
1/2 tsp of white pepper
1/2 tsp of black pepper
Half of a black cardamon
4 pieces of cloves
1 piece of aged tangerine peel (1.5*1.5 inch)
1 tsp of ginger powder
INSTRUCTIONS
1) Toast all the spices in a wok or a cast-iron skillet over low heat for a few minutes to evaporate the moisture and activate the aroma. If you have a couple of spices that are already a powder form, reserve, and mix at the end.
2) Let the spices cool before putting them into a spice grinder.
3) Blend the spices as fine as possible. Mix with the reserved spice powder.
4) Store the five-spice powder in a sealable container.
Note: Don’t make too much at one time because the aroma does get weaker if you let it sit for too long. I normally just make an oz, which will last me 2-3 months.
The bread knife is great. Nothing sadder than crushing your future sandwich bread before eating it. You cant un-crush bread.
I use them to break down cardboard boxes
Sharpen your knives, they’re too dull.
@@lisaphares2286 knives are sharp thank you. Could always be sharper of course, but the serrated knife is really a life saver- specifically for the bread loaf cutting
A knife doesn't need teeth to be good at delicately slicing/sawing.
@@jmarinotripp240yeah and I don’t think serrated knives really need to be sharpened as much or at all really
I reckon you already know of this spice mix since you know Berbere but I personally LOVE the exact same oven roasted Broccoli with Ras el hanout! Looking at the ingredient list it's pretty similar, but it's absolutely brilliant! Mix it with some sour cream or joghurt and lemon juice and now you also have a fresh dipping sauce for the aforementioned Broccoli tossed in the stuff that brings a whole different level of complexity and earthyness.
Do qt containers count as a kitchen tool? Because if they do i hope they make it on a list. I use to have those glass containers to store stuff but it just becomes a hassle with the different sizes.
On the other hand having the containers that can hold things while i prep ingrediants or when i need to store them has made prep and storage so convient. They fit together so well that stacking and storage is actually predictable instead of playing some messed up game of tetris when i want to store things
And oh man, I love my serrated knife. Its perfect when dealing with dough. A scraper works as well, but serrated just works magic.
i'm 4'11 so i constantly use a step ladder. that's a LIFE necessity, not a kitchen one for me 😆
AMEN! My Drivers license says I'm 4'11 . That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
I really agree with everything in this video. Especially about bread knives, I bought myself 3 nice knives when I started cooking more. A pairing knife, a chef's knife, and a bread knife. my bread knife has been used maybe a total of 3 times in 2 years lol. You really just can't beat a sharp blade to handle almost any task
Not sure I understood the relationship between the Thermapen and the immersion blender
I think a good thermometer is necessary at all stages of ability
It was an overly smooth segue. Like not hitting enter between paragraphs.
Hey Internet Shaqulle!
While I like your idea of integrating your junk mail into your compost pile you need to be very careful about what you shred and ultimately use in your garden.
This is due to the fact many printed materials as well as the paper they are printed on, often contain heavy metals that can adversely effect your health. If you were to use compost containing heavy metals in your garden your plants and vegetables can absorb those heavy metals and you can subsequently ingest them upon consumption.
This is also why you should never use glossy printed cardboard in your garden as a ground cover or composting material. Only plain brown cardboard or cardboard with plain matte printing.
Cheers!
7:10 big agree, a well maintained chef knife will cleave thru even the crustiest of loaves with ease. Only serrated knives I keep around are those Victorinox paring knives for small jobs that are usually in a 5$ bucket at your local kitchen goods store.
A scalloped bread knife is the best alrounder to have. Its great for bread but also for vegetables like tomatoes or peppers since it makes the sharpeness of you chefs knife live that much longer. I dont have one now but i had one at work and it was one of my most used tools.
1:30 Interesting, I have it the other way around. I don't feel like I need a blender (I have one right now but it's connected to a terrible stand mixer so I'm about to throw both out soon) but an immersion blender does basically all I need.
The wire cooling rack is also good for resting meat and pizzas
Wire rack for pizza cooling is OP
The perfect replacement for the often coveted bacon-stretcher as well.
I experienced the same wire rack epiphany Shaq describes here. So many uses. For instance: essential for elevating a steak during the oven stage of the reverse-sear method.
You have no idea how happy I am to see berbere in this video (and finally know how to pronouce it). I discovered it through an Ethiopian restaurant where I had gored gored. And I came home absolutely needing more of it. I like to add a touch of lime juice with it when I can.
My favorite use is a chicken dip that is basically buffalo dip but with lime juice and berbere instead of hot sauce. Because of my personal dietary restrictions, I now make it with coconut milk/cream instead of mayo and cream cheese. The hot dip works with tortilla chips or over rice as a meal. So good and it freezes well too!
have you ever tried a fine serated knife? the spikes have to be tiny, it really makes a difference
I feel like you squish a fresh soft bread when cutting it with a normal blade because you need to press down, but the extra friction here means you can just go back and forth and it goes through
get an immersion blender with a ricer attachment!
my kitchenaid model has one and it's indispensable to my mashed potatoes now. super useful tool.
Great list- the cooling rack is also great for making egg salad!
I’ve seen some folks use it to cube up a ton of avocado really quickly too 🧠
Immersion blender is a game changer for making mayo. No more slow dribble of oil. Makes all the difference for me
That paper shredder idea is incredible! I'm about to run to grab mine to add grocery store fliers to my compost.
But are the ink particles not bad for the worms and stiff
1:51 funny you say this because my Bosch immersion blender that just so happens to have a whisk icon on it- does NOT have a compatible whisk attachment… I contacted their customer support directly and apparently they don’t make them for that model ??? never buy an ergomixx you will only be disappointed (and end up spending 5 minutes whipping ((blending)) cream instead of 30 seconds)
Bosch is an incredible company for some things, but for others you're left staring and wondering how they got the job at all.
spatchcocked a whole bird for 30 seconds of b roll. respect
He's got a chest freezer. It won't go to waste.
An offering to the algorithm for a channel this Australian adores. ☺
My family bought a large, up market food processor a few years ago and we barely ever use it. The particular design it has involves a whole bunch of extraneous bits that get dirty whenever it's used. On the other hand we have a mini food processor that's basically an add-on for our immersion blender, and it's been used constantly for years. It's slightly less convenient to need to break up large jobs into smaller batches, but the size factor plus ease of use and cleaning more than make up for it IMO. Something you absolutely should think about getting if you buy an immersion blender (which is also a brilliant tool).
Echoing the chest freezer recommendation! My wife and I also bought one right before our first child was born and it was probably one of the best purchases I've ever made in my life. So useful. We pre-prepped a bunch of food prior to our son being born and it was a life saver on the sleep deprived days.
3:38 the netshaq I know would buy us all a fire extinguisher
Besides berbere, there's mitmita. According to the waitress at my local ethiopian restaurant, berebere is mosty used for cooking, while mitmita is used for seasoning or dipping.
I watch these videos on desktop and, when the ad reads begin (for creators that I enjoy), I pull up my phone and check emails. That way, YT analytics thinks I watched it through and gives the creator whatever positive effects that result (if any? the algorithm mystifies me beyond the baseline subs/comments/likes leading to being pushed more). I have to say that I found your ad read pretty persuasive enough without even looking at it that I properly watched it halfway through to the end. I'm not sure if I'll purchase the probiotic, but I'm definitely checking it out and using the code if I do want to try it out. I really do appreciate appreciate how straightforward and matter-of-fact you are with those. It was fun the first few times, but I'm honestly sick of creators trying to make skits or otherwise seamlessly transition into their ad reads.
Uh oh he's becoming a real dad. Putting everything in the freezer and forgetting about it! 😂
Great list. Most of these items would be very useful to most homes. I don’t have a garden so composting is worthless to me. I don’t buy whole chickens nor care for it so the chicken scissors wouldn’t be for me
But last year I bought an immersion blender and a food processor. While I could get by without them, they really are amazing for me!
I'll say about the bread knife that I love mine. I bought a cheapo Dexter Russell 12" blade one for $20 and it's great. Need to cut bread? Done. Need to open a big squash? Can do.
It's not necessary, but it's nice to have. And you don't need to spend a bunch to get one. And they are hard to sharpen, but the serrations make it stay sharp for a long long time.
In the same vein I recently got a meat cleaver. I love it for pumpkins, carving up a whole chicken or anything else that might've needed more forc. I noticed several hanging in the background.
Amazing to see someone talk about Berbere, been using it myself for years now (and turned some others onto it). It's absolutely amazing, smells great too.
I'm surprised about the shears -- they're super common where I'm from, everyone has a pair of "kitchen scissors" as far as I know. Fun use case: cut pizza with the scissors, it works surprisingly well
I can’t believe the paper shredder was a legitimate recommendation and not just clickbait lmao
"Unnecessary" feels like a negative trait, but I totally get it. Lots of my favorite kitchen things arent essential. Maybe I take those for granted, but it's the things that I dont need but which make cooking so much easier that really shine.
I look forward to the hopefully future video of the perfect chest freezer load out
You had me for a minute with the paper shredder. I thought you were shredding your veggie scraps lol.
+1 for the step ladder. My wife’s grandma gave us a stepladder and stepstool set for a wedding gift almost 20 years ago. They have followed us through several cross country moves and we have even bought two other matching stools for kids bathrooms.
i find it hard to do kitchen maintenance like oiling cutting boards or sharpening knives so i have a serrated chefs knife! had it 5 years and never had to sharpen it. it can slice just as good as it did out the box. really appreciate that sentiment at the end about finding what kitchen problems you need solving
excellent calls on the step stool and the shears. I have both and they are both a million percent worth the price of admission. and as you point out, poultry shears aren't just for poultry. very handy for lots of stuff.
I agree about the bread knife. I got into bread making and was going to get a fancy high carbon steel one, then realized my cheap (but sharpened) chef's knives were more than capable. In fact, using a chef's knife to cut smooth pieces of bread with no crumbs flying everywhere is now my favorite part of baking bread!
for someone who likes baking bread, a bread knife seems to me, the best way to slice it up. but i only ever use it when i make bread. maybe i’ll have to try sharpening my knife better to see if that works well for me
I got a step ladder stool combo and it rocks!
rocks back and forth but i still like it!
No bread knife is definitely the hottest take I’ve ever heard on this channel. I guess you don’t need a good one but it’s the best for cutting anything with a rind. Also big stuff like cubing meat for a braise. I guess now that I’m thinking about it, it’s not that necessary but as a bartender cutting citrus is a way bigger thing for me lol
7:00 When talking about the silicone scrapers though, you need the ones where the scraper and the handle are all one piece. not the ones with the wood handles and the silicone top.
In terms of the bread knife, I'm a fan of the America's Test Kitchen recommended Mercer Culinary 10-inch Bread Knife. Only 20 bucks. Very heavy and durable.
Love the advice at the end. Solve the problems *you're* having, rather than going off of strangers' advice and striving for a platonic ideal you don't care about.
I'm primarily a musician, and this is advice I would give to my colleagues, students, or really any creative person in a field saturated by commercial marketing of gear that will magically solve all our problems for just $399.
I only use the bread knife for bagels. Bagels are such a weird shape to hold in my hand so the grippy blade of the bread knife keeps the blade from sliding off the hard, smooth shell of the bagel.
Kitchen utensils are weird. We have multiple nice pans that we have never used. Meanwhile we have a plug-in egg steamer that my entire family made fun of me for buying because it literally does one and only one thing. But we use that egg steamer every single morning, and it helps that the machine is very automated and most importantly doesn’t take up space on the oven, allowing us to cook breakfast and lunch in parallel.
7:09 I would like to defend serrated knives a bit. I'm a home baker who specializes is cakes and I can say a serrated knife is a vital tool. I'm not nearly brave enough to attempt to level a cake with a straight edged blade and I would never recommend it. If the knife slips, it's a one way ticket to the emergency room. A serrated knife is also good for cutting delicate crumbs because it encourages a sawing motion rather than a chopping motion, which often smashes rather than cuts.
All that said, I doubt someone who never bakes or cuts their own bread would ever need it. I would still recommend having a decent one on standby in case you do need it considering a knife generally doesn't take up much space.
I use my bread knife for 'sawing' up a pineapple, which it's excellent at... that's about all it's good for except the rare cases that I actually have fancy bread... but I think all the other 'products' you mentioned are my low key favorites. Except my step ladder is covered in paint, caulk and other building stuff.
I started buying sourdough bread from my local lidl since I wanted to try it out, and every time I tried using a knife it messed up the bread. now that I'm wiser, I realise it was probably not sharp enough but ever since then I've used the ame bread knife and it still manages to get through the hard skin
The kitchen ladder is essential. I use it for the high cabinets (I’m 5’8”) and is great for dusting above window moulding, changing light bulbs, cleaning the top of the fridge, assembling a gazebo on our deck, and painting walls. I’m sure I’ll find other uses. The chest freezer saves so much money. I can buy large quantities of meat on sale and when prices go up, I shop my freezer. I also collect trimmings from veg to make my dog’s food and freeze them. Then freeze the prepared food.
for a bread knife that's worth it i recommend victorinox fibrox or swiss classic for like 20 to 30 bucks. it has a rounded tip and the blade is only slightly tapered, so it will also work as sort of a spatula. i feel like paying premium for a knife you probably only use for bread and sometimes tomato shouldn't cost more than that.
I'm a big composting enthusiast and I had no idea about the paper shredding technology. I will definitely be carbonizing my compost pile as all the problems you mentioned were popping up for me ...
Holy crap your sound design is awesome! Love your videos, but I just got new headphones so I only just now get to appreciate how good the video sounds. Whatever you're doing, keep it up and thanks for all your hard work!
Awesome list. Definitely easier to implement if you have extra space/ a house. Any item ideas specifically for people in small apartments?
Some stick blenders come with a bin and blade that works just like a food processor.
The wire rack in our house is used for cookies fresh from the oven. You scrape them off the baking sheet and leave them on the wire rack to cool so that they don’t continue to bake get any darker on the bottom after they’ve been removed from the oven.
I’ll be honest, I’m no longer on team bread knife… I’ve recently had to refurnish my kitchen from scratch, so I’ve got new, extremely sharp knives. And both my chef’s knife and utility knife have done great work against tough crusty breads. Maybe my tune will change once I get lax on keeping my blades sharp, we’ll see!
We're not chest freezer people, the shape just doesn't work for us. In Jan of 2020 we took delivery of an upright freezer as our Christmas gift.Let's just say the timing could not have been better and it's invaluable.
Uprights are less energy efficient but generally bigger, and they're way easier to organize, and they don't collect defrost water in the bottom and freeze it onto a block with that stuff you didn't organize rotting in it...
I adore using a big laundry basket that's like 1 meter tall or so as my go to basket for throwing plastic trash away. One thing that's inevitable from happening in the kitchen ( or outside the kitchen) is producing plastic trash. Every day there's tons of products using plastic and it piles up quicker than people care about. It all seems small but it piles up quick. With a big enough basket I can put in a large plastic sack and have a better overview over how much I throw away. Its also easier to sort my trash based on the containers my food came with. Rinse, fold and play a little every day life tetris game to stack my trash up properly to reduce my trash taking too much space and the day before the garbage collectors are coming, its one quick grap and knot away from being collected.
Its a mundane little thing but I prefer that over the tiny buckets most people hide under the sink. It did end up being far more convenient than other standard methods of house hold garbage disposels and if you live alone, or with several people , you can conveniently place that anywhere in the home and it don't stand out like a sore thumb. Cheap , light and aesthetically pleasing to your home styles.
I bought drum sticks not knowing my daughter didn’t like drum sticks for her birthday. Kitchen shears were a godsend cutting all the meat off those bones so I could still fry the meat without the bone. 10/10, made it so easy after I tried using a few different knives then grabbed the scissors in frustration.
Hit the nail on the head 30 sec in… I always take out one of my oven racks for my wire rack.
I also lost my food processor blade 6 months ago… found out the immersion blender makes hummus even better
LOVE your closer. Slicing ham has been the only thing a long serrated knife has been better at than my ridiculously sharp Chef knife, or just basic straigh edged slicer.
Thanks
Sir, you make great videos that always make me want to cook something I never have before. Bless your heart, and congrats on becoming a father
I've spent years obsessed with Berbere, making or buying at least 100 variations. You can pursue kinds with hard to source Ethiopian spices, but the best and most approchable version for most people remains Chef John's recipe for the stuff on his Foodwishes channel.
My bread knife gets the most use as a cheese slicer. Something about the serrations lets it slide right through cheddar like a champ.
Honestly, internet Shaquille is the few RUclipsrs who I buy their suggestions. You better believe I’m looking up immersion blenders rn
100% agree with the bread knife take. Truth be told a razor sharp knife will slice through crusty bread very easily, you just need to saw back and forth and let gravity do the work to get it started. I think a lot of people don't realize how dull their knives truly are, which is why they think they need a specialty knife to get the job done.