Your registry items have been safely stashed. Now use our checklist to make sure you haven't missed any of the essentials -- because no kitchen is complete without these handy gadgets.
Here's what I have to say about that.
The two big categories on that list that I'm looking at are knives and utensils. Here's all they had under knives:
KNIVES
- Bread knife
- Chef's knife
- Kitchen shears
- Knife sharpener
- Knives
- Paring knife
- Steak knives
- Utility knife
Other than the point that kitchen shears (or scissors) aren't exactly knives, this is a pretty good list. Except for "Knife sharpener." That, my friends, is a potentially dangerous phrase. The quick explanation is that you would be far better off getting yourself a steel (sometimes called a sharpening steel or a butcher's steel) than you would getting a knife sharpener. A steel will help maintain a knife's edge and then you can get it professionally sharpened. No, that's not just a plug for our knife sharpening services. Most of you reading this probably don't live near enough for that, anyway. A "knife sharpener" will indeed sharpen your knives, but with no regard to angle or blade shape. It's imprecise and you can actually damage your edge instead of sharpening it.
If you want more info, check out this post I did before about sharpening knives. Please excuse the broken images, I'm trying to go back and replace them with ones from our new website.
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