A sharp and sturdy knife is one of the most essential tools in a kitchen. Almost all recipes start with chopping, slicing, carving, paring, skinning, or dicing. Therefore keeping your knife sharp, and using it safely, is of utmost importance to anyone interested in cooking. It is also one of the more intimidating aspects. How many people feel comfortable the first time the pick up an 8-inch chef knife? Far fewer than feel comfortable swinging around a cast iron skillet. But using a sharp knife shouldn’t be scary, and it really isn’t, especially if you observe a few simple rules.
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Rising to the Challenge: Making a Soufflé
The idea of making a soufflé seems to scare many home cooks. Or at least, that’s what I keep hearing, since it never really scared me. Perhaps it was watching “Good Eats” for years before ever actually cooking something, or because complicated recipes simply don’t scare me: they are simply a sequence of techniques and steps, carried out in a certain order, often in a time or temperature-dependent way. So too is a soufflé.
Stuff Every Kitchen Needs
- A sharp chef’s knife
- A sharp paring knife
- A honing steel
- A large wood or plastic cutting board
- Kosher salt
- A pepper mill and fresh peppercorns
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