Cooking Gear

RojoLoco

A good food processor is an indispensable kitchen tool. Get the biggest (most powerful) one you can afford, and get some of the accessories (slicing blade, etc). Mine has many, many miles on it.

Find a restaurant supply store and invest in some good half and quarter sheet pans. Get the aluminum kind, with rolled edges. They will be cheaper at the commercial place than they will be at a regular home type kitchen supply store. Get the steel wire cooling racks that fit into each pan as well, maybe 2 racks for every 4-5 pans. These will make your life much easier.

jenuinecase

I use my Lodge cast iron skillet almost every day as well as an enamel covered cast iron dutch oven. Love them!

MattSpeller

Cast iron skillet, a big one because it's a good forearm workout

Small non-stick frying pan of the cheapest variety for eggs, and only eggs. Replaced every year or two without guilt.

RojoLoco

@MattSpeller said:

Cast iron skillet, a big one because it's a good forearm workout

Small non-stick frying pan of the cheapest variety for eggs, and only eggs. Replaced every year or two without guilt.

^^^^ This times a bazillion.... it's like @MattSpeller looked into my kitchen and reported his observations....

Be sure to pour the bacon grease from aforementioned cast iron skillet into aforementioned nonstick pan for the proper frying of eggs.... "it's the only way to be sure"....

gjacobse

@DustinB3403 said:

@gjacobse said:

Get yourself one of these.. small.. can be used indoors and out.

What are you using for your source of smoke though?

The 'kit' comes with containers of sawdust - Alder, Apple, Hickory; and you can get more.

It's built like a double boiler, only you don't use water. just drop a spoon full of the dust in the bottom pan, put in the drip pan, then the rack.

MattSpeller

I should mention, if you want a cast iron pan go to a 2nd hand / salvation army store. Buy the one that has the most shiny inky midnight black slick looking surface you can find. Grandma put some effort into getting it nice and that takes years.