The Cheap Kitchen Tool I Bring to Every Rental House or Airbnb

You don’t need chef training to be picky about the tools you use in the kitchen. That goes doubly for when you might be called to someone else’s kitchen, whether that’s a family holiday situation or a rental property. If you’re cooking for the group — by coercion or self-nomination — you have every right to want to use whatever tools and gadgets make you most confident about the outcome. Especially when feeding a crowd.

I’m known to travel with cooking supplies and have even taken my cake pansacross the Atlantic. In my defense, I was A) making a multi-tiered birthday cake and B) making it for my future siblings-in-law, whom I was meeting for the first time. My then-boyfriend, now-husband, is a great cook, it must be said, but cake wasn’t a regular part of his repertoire, and I didn’t want to take my chances with whatever...

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