Amaranth
7-19-12, 9:17am
For the 100 Item Living project, what do you see as the essential minimal kitchen equipment?
Some of the choices are easy for me to decide, and some I can't figure out the best choice.
One of the easy ones is that I would choose a good paring knife over a food processor. With the paring knife I have more choice over the size and shape of the foods and can also peel with it. What's given up is making smooth creamy foods.
If people are counting sets of things as 1 item, I'd go with a set of dishes and utensils per person. But if it were more of a minimalist Zen sort of counting, I'd probably choose the CorningWare soup mug and a set of chop sticks.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002KZMCO/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=10610881357&hvpos=1t3&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1108820381952103854&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&ref=pd_sl_9hppyp316p_b
or
http://tinyurl.com/8a5dfjr
The soup mug can be frozen and microwaved. Pretty much anything can be eaten or drunk out of it. If I didn't have access to high tech ceramics, the next best thing would be a good quality rice bowl type shape as it has much the same versatility for eating as the soup mug.
So far the most difficult challenge is figuring out what would be the most versatile cooking pot. An enameled iron pot of medium size would be extremely versatile. A dutch oven could work better being used for the kitchen and for car camping since it can be used for baking with the coals on the top of the pot. But for both the kitchen and backpacking a 1-2 quart titanium cookpot would work better due to lighter weight. For versatility of cooking methods, a wok set is even more versatile than any of the others.
What would you choose for this kitchen/Dining component of your 100 items?
Some of the choices are easy for me to decide, and some I can't figure out the best choice.
One of the easy ones is that I would choose a good paring knife over a food processor. With the paring knife I have more choice over the size and shape of the foods and can also peel with it. What's given up is making smooth creamy foods.
If people are counting sets of things as 1 item, I'd go with a set of dishes and utensils per person. But if it were more of a minimalist Zen sort of counting, I'd probably choose the CorningWare soup mug and a set of chop sticks.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002KZMCO/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=10610881357&hvpos=1t3&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1108820381952103854&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&ref=pd_sl_9hppyp316p_b
or
http://tinyurl.com/8a5dfjr
The soup mug can be frozen and microwaved. Pretty much anything can be eaten or drunk out of it. If I didn't have access to high tech ceramics, the next best thing would be a good quality rice bowl type shape as it has much the same versatility for eating as the soup mug.
So far the most difficult challenge is figuring out what would be the most versatile cooking pot. An enameled iron pot of medium size would be extremely versatile. A dutch oven could work better being used for the kitchen and for car camping since it can be used for baking with the coals on the top of the pot. But for both the kitchen and backpacking a 1-2 quart titanium cookpot would work better due to lighter weight. For versatility of cooking methods, a wok set is even more versatile than any of the others.
What would you choose for this kitchen/Dining component of your 100 items?