I’ve been on a bit of a cooking-related buying spree lately. On Sunday I cashed my Costco rebate check and went straight to The Epicurean Edge. There, I bought a MAC Paring knife, a magnetic wall-mount knife block and a bamboo cutting board (my current cutting board wasn’t very large). Admittedly, I really wanted a Hinoki cutting board, but I couldn’t justify spending $130 on the cutting board when I got all of the above for about $150.
Later that evening I also went online and ordered a ceramic (cast-iron core) dutch oven by Lodge Logic with a Le Creucet replacement handle. The one that comes default with the Lodge Logic dutch oven is plastic and melts above 400 degrees. Thus, my dutch oven looks very much the part of a Le Creucet dutch oven with the nice price tag of about $55.
On Monday I proceeded to buy James Peterson’s Cooking, as I have no real cookbooks besides the Alice. B. Toklas one, which isn’t entirely practical or broad. It came in the mail today as well, hooray :). I like that its got all the pretty pictures and the recipes seem quite followable.
Finally, I haven’t been very happy with the Farberware Non-stick pans I bought from Costco. They’re okay, but they don’t have very good heat properties (ie: stay hot too long, take forever to heat up). So I decided that since Costco has such an awesome return policy, I’ll return these and buy a set from Amazon. I ended up getting a nice stainless steal with aluminum core set by Cuisinart (Multiclad Pro series). The particular set I wanted was sold out, so I bought a smaller set and added on the 3.5 qt saute pan and 8 inch omelet pan (Marcus Samuelsson, no Cuisinart).
Huzzah for new cooking things! Now all I’m missing is someone to test my cooking on, which will primarily be Caroline (g/f) when she comes next week.
