Standard Cooking Tools

You don’t need fancy equipment to make great food, but you do need a few basic tools. The list below includes some of the most common tools we use. You may not need everything on this list. For example, if you do not cook on the stove, you would not need things like skillets and pots.

Your tools might look different than ours. It depends on what you like to cook, what feels comfortable, and what you can find in the store. Some tools have alternatives that many people find more comfortable or safer to use. We call those “alternative and adaptive” cooking tools. Learn more about our favorite alternative and adaptive tools here.

Whether standard or adaptive, we look for tools that are the safest and most comfortable to use. The items below have been selected with that in mind.

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