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What are your favourite and/or most used kitchen items? (beehaw.org)

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For me, it would probably have to be my Bialetti moka pot and Dualit toaster. I make a pot of coffee and toast almost every morning. I also hope to replace my old pans with a cast iron one soon, and I look forward to using that a lot.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have always found it far easier to control the heat on a gas burner, either by getting low and setting it by eye for simmering or by lifting and varying the height of the pan over a high heat for stir frying. For slow cooking I can stick a metal thing with holes in it (forget the name of it) between the pot and the flame to dial down the heat even more.

Maybe induction would be more flexible but I have always found electric to be fully on or no heat whatsoever, and when turning the heat up or down I always ended up with too much or too little. I can literally see what I'm doing with gas.