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Kitchen Essentials

Keeping in mind your FINITE resources, we have recommended the most useful kitchen equipment and staples for you to purchase. Our recipes are built around these essentials, so you can cook a wide range of recipes with just a few pots and pans and a small assortment of kitchen gadgets. This simple approach saves money, generates fewer dirty dishes, and streamlines your culinary experience.

Why Do We Recommend a 4-Quart Saucepan?

2 colanders.

Mixing and measuring essentials.

Why do you need two thermometers?

2 cutting boards.

How many knives do you really need?

10 small kitchen gadgets.

How to make your own steamer

2 pans.

2 skillets.

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HOW TO SET UP YOUR FIRST KITCHEN (Click on photo to read more.)

KITCHEN ESSENTIALS

Our concept for the Finite Foodie® has these simple goals in mind —

1. To provide simple, clear steps for setting up your first, probably small kitchen with a minimal amount of equipment and investment.

2. To teach you cooking basics,  terminology and terms, and common conversions and equivalents.

3. To inspire you with healthful, easy recipes.

When we simmer a chicken in water (see our recipe for Slow Cooked Chicken) we end up with a pot full of rather bland chicken broth. No problem! Once we’ve removed the meat, we add the carcass back to the broth, throw in some vegetables and make a rich and complex bone broth. You can…

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