Some of my favourite cooking utensils that I highly recommend are: 1] A rice cooker . I like to use a rice cooker for two reasons: I live with a gas stove that cooks my rice unevenly and often leaves...I use them most frequently. I recommend if you're just starting out purchasing at least a rice cooker and rice. And then, you can build your own preference list based on what you like to cook and eat

Yesterday's panic was "losing" a large chunk of revisions already done, just as I was ready to insert it into the main manuscript.  And thinking I'd lost one of my thumb drives while we were out of the...tiny fraction of the cost.  And works better...unlike the pretty wood and metal ones, it won't rot, rust, scratch your counter, or cut you.) Bread.  I really, really like making bread sometimes. 

As Alton would say. Here's some useful information I thought I'd pass on. When I asked about conversion information for tackling British recipes written in... British, green_garnets kindly sent...navigating my way around pots and pans, but once again, Cook's Illustrated is great for information on those, both performance-wise and price-wise. What are your favorite tools in the kitchen

http://convert-me.com/en/convert/cookin g Converts from American/British Cooking Measurements into Metric and vice versa. [Yay! Now I can use those pesky cookbooks with metric measurements without being utterly confused for a long time or I can convert those "useless" 4 serving recipes to 100 servings with ease. :)]

World Kitchen now owns: Bakers Secret Chicago Cutlery Corningware Corelle Ecko Olfa Magnalite Pyrex Revere Yeep!