I’m starting from nothing… essentially just a microwave and a range. I need to know what to stock a tiny studio apartment with. I’m just learning how to cook, so no suggestion is too obvious!
I’m starting from nothing… essentially just a microwave and a range. I need to know what to stock a tiny studio apartment with. I’m just learning how to cook, so no suggestion is too obvious!
If you’ve got one nearby that’s open to the public, a restaurant supply store is the best place to start kitting out a kitchen. They’re cheap for the quality and will outlast equivalent priced items at big box stores, although they might not be as cute.
An 8 inch chef knife 🔪 is the standard in
, and a small paring knife should cover everything you need for cutting. Other cutting tools are more nice-to-haves IMO, but a decent set of kitchen shears and a bread knife are nice.
Pick up a whisk or two, I prefer ones with handles like this
and some mixing bowls. Whisks are great for both wet and dry powder ingredients. And, while talking liquids, don’t forget a liquid measure and also some measuring cups and spoons, unless you prefer to measure exclusively by weight, for which you’ll want a scale.
The most important thing I’ll say is make sure you have a good can opener, a bottle opener, and a corkscrew. Those are things I didn’t have when I moved into my first apartment, and it sucked.