What Type of Cooking Equipment is Used by Top Chefs?
Would you expect the top chefs to use low or high quality cooking equipment? I would expect you to answer ‘high’ quality. And you wouldn’t be far off the mark. Many TV chefs use their familiar faces to market and sell their own brand of cooking equipment. Jamie Oliver springs to mind straight away. And you wouldn’t be far off the mark in thinking that Jamie’s own brand of cooking equipment is top quality.
His cooking equipment has to be of the highest quality. He has his own brand identity. He sells his shows, his recipes, his cooking style through the quality of what he produces. So the quality of his cooking equipment has to match the quality of the rest of his brand. Chances are, you wouldn’t think much of your Jamie Oliver deep frying pan if the handle came off while you were following Jamie’s show, frying up the perfect English breakfast.
OK, so much for celebrity chefs. They make their living from chopping up, mixing and cooking food, so they are only going to use the best cooking equipment. How about the rest of us? Is it possible to detect a real difference between the cheap cooking equipment and the premium brands? Does the law of diminishing returns apply to kitchenware?
The short answer is: cook a lot? Then buy the best. Good cooking equipment lasts a lifetime. It’s something you forge a relationship with. Your tools are your cooking pots. They can become an extension of your body, even of your self. you. It is a heavy piece of equipment. It’s solid. Its power can be felt evey time it’s used. And there’s research to suggest that cooking slightly acidic foods such as tomatoes in ironware will have a beneficial effect on your health. Traces of iron are released into your food, contributing to your daily iron intake.
Cheap cooking equipment, on the other hand, can only let you down.
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on Thursday, November 27th, 2008 at 3:10 am and is filed under Cooking Tips.
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