kitch-toolbox-msg - 11/30/02
Suggested items to carry in a kitchen toolbox.
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From: "Christine Seelye-King" <kingstaste at mindspring.com>
To: "Red Tower Food Staff Group" <RTFood at yahoogroups.com>,
"SCA Cook's List" <SCA-Cooks at ansteorra.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 10:07:27 -0400
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Kitchen Tool Box list
I have been asked to provide a list of things that should go into a kitchen tool box, much like the one I carry that I started while working in
professional kitchens. So, I figured I could start with a list of what was
in mine, but that it also might prove an entertaining as well as potentially
useful exercise to post it for comment and additions here.
The things I've listed are those that live in the box, I usually add
knives, spoons, wooden utensils, and job-specific tools when I travel with it.
Christianna
Sturdy metal toolbox, with reliable clasps, and a lift-out drawer
(I line both the drawer and the bottom with foil, then clean and replace
that periodically)
Drawer contents:
paring knife
fruit knife
boning knife
3(!)measuring spoon sets
(probably don't need all of those in there...)
Small pastry spatula/spreader
wooden handled small pastry brush
plastic handle molded into the likeness of a chef pastry brush (it's new, I
bought it at Trader Horn's at Pennsic)
pizza cutter
parisian scoop (double-headed melon baller)
garlic press
(2)nut/crustacean crackers
(2)nut picks
pocket meat thermometer
ceramic sharpening rod
small sharpening stone
small sharpening steel
small corkscrew
church key
pastry tip set
(2)vegetable peelers
citrus juicer
band-aid box
pen, marker
(2)small screwdrivers
butcher glove (a gift to my lord after his umteenth knife injury)
50 cents
(should have a nail file in there, I find them very useful for both taking
care of ripped fingernails and for filing small protrusions)
Lower Box contents
tower grater
large tongs
small tongs
apple corer/slicer (round)
large chopsticks
(3) chef's knives, various sizes (when I travel, these get augmented with my
favorite kitchen knives)
serrated Ginsu-type knife
Quikut,Inc. serrated knife (purported to be able to saw down small trees and
through blocks of ice, if need be)
all-purpose blade/hammer/bashing tool
large sharpening steel
measuring cup set
From: "Christine Seelye-King" <kingstaste at mindspring.com>
To: "SCA Cook's List" <SCA-Cooks at ansteorra.org>, <RTFood at yahoogroups.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 10:59:54 -0400
Subject: [Sca-cooks] RE: [RTFood] Kitchen Tool Box list
I just thought of something else I have carried in the past that's not in
there now, a pair of pliers, good for pulling the bones out of a salmon, for
example.
Christianna
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:51:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: robert frazier <robertblacksmith at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] RE: [RTFood] Kitchen Tool Box list
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
yep.needle nosed and regelar and multi-tipped screw
driver for stove repair.
--- Christine Seelye-King <kingstaste at mindspring.com>
wrote:
> I just thought of something else I have carried in
> the past that's not in
> there now, a pair of pliers, good for pulling the
> bones out of a salmon, for example.
> Christianna
From: "Christine Seelye-King" <kingstaste at mindspring.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] Kitchen Tool Box list
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 20:45:56 -0400
> how many wheels on this tool box?<grin> I use about the
> same stuff but mine is divided into two boxes
> "measruring thingies"and "sharp thingies" kids around.
No wheels, just an average 7"x7"x19" tool box. The crates of kitchen stuff
that usually goes makes many more boxes, but I can usually stick to the one
for small ware.
Christianna
From: "Barbara Benson" <vox8 at mindspring.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Additions to Kitchen Tool Box list
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 10:48:07 -0400
I have a kitchen box too! Things that are must have's for me that were not
on your list are:
Whisks (I have large, medium & small, but a medium would do).
A scale (mine is digital & battery powered, very slimline)
Electric Coffee/spice grinder (for large scale spice grinding)
The last two are really specific for feast preperation. If you are not doing
any precise baking or mass production you could probablly get away without
them. I also always take one clean, soft towel wrapped around all of the
sharp knives - one day I'll have a knife carrier, but the towel works fine.
One thing that I have found invaluable, but you might not have the room or
desire, is one of those wand style hand mixers. Braun makes a version that
comes with three attachments, the basic blender, a whisk and a little food
processor type attachment (great for stubbourn spices like dried galingale
and also for very small batch food processing like 1 cup of sauce).
Serena da Riva
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 21:54:19 -0400
From: johnna holloway <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu>
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Once again, from today's NY Times
That side panel list is pretty good...
just exactly what everyone ought to show up with
in an SCA Kitchen, don't you think???
Johnna Holloway Johnnae llyn Lewis
"Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius" wrote:
> September 4, 2002>
> How to Boil Four-Star Water: A Master Class
> By GUY TREBAY snipped--
> And the following in a little side panel:
> What You'll Need
>
> The French Laundry asks interns from L'=C9cole des Chefs to bring the following.
> 2 pairs black chef pants
> 1 pair black shoes, with nonskid soles
> 1 French knife
> 1 paring knife
> 1 slicer
> 1 serrated knife
> 1 palette knife
> 1 peeler
> 1 timer
> 2 pairs of scissors (heavy duty and all purpose)
> 1 pair of fish tweezers
> Assorted saucing spoons
<the end>