Kitchen Utensils

[Scottish Exile]

Anyone care to recommend any particular brand of kitchen utensils (ladels, spatulas etc)

I prefer the look of stainless steel as the plastic ones look, well, plasticky !.

I guess though that using Teflon coated pots/pans, that all metal is out and that I need to get plastic. Would appreciate any advice. For most things, I prefer to buy quality, in the (probably mistaken) belief that the more expensive, the better the quality. Would this be true for Utensils, or are the budget £1 a piece items in Tesco just as good?

Edited by Scottish Exile on Sunday 14th December 01:14

[smack]

Go buy some wooden spoons and spatulas. Great for non stick, don't have to worry about plastic in your meal, renew-able, cheap, proven design over 1000's of years, including a tool of punishment to your off spring (first hand experience as a receiver there).

[Roger645]

I have a mixture of wooden spoons, cheap plastic ones and some le cruset silicone spatulas. They all deserve a place in a busy kitchen!

Edited by Roger645 on Sunday 14th December 14:41

[Pferdestarke]

Le Creuset silicone spatulas are great. Buy a flexible palette knife, flexible fish slice and a few wooden spoons. Don't worry about them matching as you should buy the best individual component for the job.

Metal on teflon is okay as long as you respect it.

[grumbledoak]

Rather far-ranging request, but I'll try:

Wooden spoons have their uses, and they are cheap as chips. Hang the expense and buy some.
Silicone spatulas are better, but no branded manufacturer springs to mind.
I have copper bottomed, 'stainless' pots and pans, but a non-stick (i.e. Teflon) frying pan.
For knives, I have a cheap old set (Argos, IIRC) for bread and bones, but some Japanese HC for my Ninja impersonations.
Those Microplanes are brilliant, and I wouldn't be without a proper potato 'ricer'.


I could go on, but this feels rather 'scatter gun'...

[i want an aero]

i have thrown away nearly everything apart from the silicone range they're ace