What is your favorite cooking utensil (s) of all time?

Might be good to start it off by telling us yours. Mine is my chefs knife.

Apart from knives, I would have to say tongs. I use them for everything from stirring to juicing citrus. Also love my wooden spoons.

My MAC

First and four most are the ones that grow off the ends of my wrists. Seriously; fingers and hands are my favorite kitchen tools.

After that, it should go without saying, my knives.

I never gave this much thought, cuz I use all my tools and utensils about equally. So I take the approach, if I had to give one up, which would I most miss. Looking at it that way, I offer tongs as a hesitant third place.

My stove and my pots

I would be lost without at least one pressure cooker.  After that, I don't know.   Knives are knives, spoons are spoons, and never the twain shall meet?

Oh,  yes, also my molcajete & tejelote.  Stone age blender...it rocks! 

i don't think that knives(sharp) even need to be mentioned, for obvious reasons...do like ky's hand and fingers answer...cool......two things i use everytime i cook or do anything in the kitchen every single day, are tongs and rubber spats...love  them both equally... wish there was a better potholder for the oven...something not so bulky, definately not silicone or those awful mitt thingys... while bar rags are okay for stove top pots, they are a little thin for commercial oven use i use thick washcloths for that...

joey

It would have to be pizza scissors, most def.

Can't live without 'em.  But who could? 

Seriously though, even though there's nothing "pro" about Westmark's slotted spatula/tongs, and while I could live without them, I love them. 

In case it's not obvious, the tongs come apart and become two... wait for it... spatulas.  Working two together gives you a lot of surface which can be helpful with big pieces.  The spatulas themselves are slightly curved, and when they're put together as tongs, they can be oriented to squeeze or cup.  Where they really shine is as fish and schnitzel tongs...so gentle. 

BDL

Mixer

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Originally Posted by boar_d_laze 

It would have to be pizza scissors, most def.

Can't live without 'em.  But who could? 

 

BDL

Will those work on deep dish?

Going with the flow here, I love my tongs and knives. I also love my mandoline.

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Originally Posted by abefroman 

 

Will those work on deep dish?

I thouht the same thing. Must be a Chicago thing.

I'd have to say my cast iron skillet.

that pizza scissor is AMAZING! where do i get one???

seriously, i can't wait to show that to the boys at work. that is f-ing funny!

favorite utensils are my knives....until the pizza scissors get here.

I love my kitchen scissors. I cut fat off of meat with it, chopped herbs, etc

I love them

My new mason cash mixing bowl is my favorite cooking utensil at the moment as I bought it yesterday :)

Love my Sabs and Macs but if I had to pick something it would have to be my chinois.

Easy - my scanpan saucepan set! They are a dream to cook with ...

Two items -

1  My granny's girdle (griddle for those who don't have 'Scots' as a language!) - a large circle of iron, with an oval handle and a hanging hook.  It makes THE best drop scones, oatcakes and other items.

2  My family shortbread mould.  It's wooden, circular, with a zig zag pattern around the edges and a thistle in the middle.  It's from the mid 1800s, and the wood (which I think might be Scots Pine) is now darkened with age and the application of nearly 150 years of buttery/sugary goodness!

my cast Iron never fails me.