If you’re like us, you end up spending quite a lot of time in the kitchen, cooking and preparing weekly or daily meals isn’t easy when you’re living gluten-free, wouldn’t you want it to make it as easy as possible?
We’ve tried all kinds of stuff – mixers, pots and pans, food scales, blenders, and random kitchen gadgets. We’ll go over our favorite items for making life easier and less time-consuming.
Appliances
Making your kitchen gluten-free is easy, the problem is keeping it that way, especially when living with family members, friends or spouses who live a different lifestyle.
Keeping your cooking equipment clear of gluten is a priority to ensure your future health, don’t share with those not following a gluten-free diet as it will contaminate your food.
Nutri Ninja Mega Kitchen System
We’ve been using this powerful tool daily for the past couple of years, it’s going strong, and we don’t plan on switching as it’s the perfect multi-tasking kitchen system we’ve found.
An all in one food processor, blender, and juicer with a powerful motor that will make your life simple and quicker, with great price and quality.
Ozeri Digital Multifunction Food Scale
A common mistake is to eyeball the food portions; it’s impossible to track how much food is being eaten accurately. And it’s important to track each portion, especially when counting macros to prevent weight gain (or gain weight, for those looking to put on muscle).
This food scale will give you all the information needed to plan your meals down to the smallest details.
Keurig K55 Coffee & Tea Maker, Black Edition
Brewing coffee, making tea, hot cocoa, and other beverages haven’t been easier for us. Pressing a few buttons and we’re off to a perfect morning with the smell of coffee in the air.
Sometimes all we look forward to is making a delicious cup of coffee in the morning, without any stress.
HAMILTON BEACH KEEP WARM 2-SLICE TOASTER
There’s not much to say about a toaster really, other than the fact that a bad one will burn your toast if you’re not careful.
As we make a lot of gluten-free bread, we needed to find a good toaster, and out of many options, this one was the best we found that fulfilled our needs in the kitchen.
GoWISE 4th Generation Electric Air Fryer
We do our best to avoid deep fried food, and quite often the need for frying food arises.
Thankfully we found a perfect and healthy substitute to solve our problem without leaving unpleasant oil odor, little to no mess and rarely using oil for the cooking process.
Halmilton Bread-Maker with Gluten-Free Setting
We’ve used various bread making machines, and recently we came across this fantastic bread maker with different settings making it super easy to use.
If you’re following a gluten-free diet, you know bread making can be tedious and time-consuming when done the traditional way.
Cuisinart Smart Stick 2 Speed Blender
This is the most used tools in our kitchen, definitely, saves time, there’s no need to use a standard blender anymore.
It’s cheap and has so many uses; it will earn a spot in one of the most required tools in your kitchen without a doubt.
Sunbeam Stand Mixer with Dough Hooks and Beaters
It’s clear that aerating eggs, and making batters is something we do a lot on a gluten-free diet, and it’s never been easier.
This is a durable product that will last years and will make your life much simpler.
Cookware
Instead of owning all kinds of pans and pots, you should own a few specific and well-chosen pieces that you can cook anything you want with the performance to cook better with heat retention and distribution, affordable price, and temperature control.
A good cookware will generally be robust and thick that will sit flat on the stove, is heatproof with a firm handle and comfortable lids. Based on those criteria’s, we’ve come up the pieces below to be the most useful for our kitchen.
Cuisinart Stainless Steel 12-Piece Cookware
These are a perfect choice for your stainless steel cookware needs, as they’re incredibly well built, they offer a superior temperature control with a longer life span and much fewer chemicals released from the pans.
You’ll find stainless steel pans in most chef’s kitchen all around the world.
Lodge Cast Iron Reversible Grill/Griddle
This cast-iron cookware is perfect as they evenly heat up and retains the temperature well, they’re non-stick without the traditional toxic chemicals found in other cookware which is released into the air, and food.
We’ve been using these for the past couple of years; still the same was it was when we purchased it.
All-Clad Stainless Steel Fry Pan with Lid
All-clad cookware is unparalleled when it comes to heat; it’s also durable. It too is used by chefs all over the world, and we use it in our kitchen on a daily basis.
It’s beautiful, versatile and has an incredible response to heat.
Cuisinart Stainless 4-Quart Saucepan with Cover
Every kitchen needs a saucepan, especially a tall designed to keep it from completely crowding your kitchen, and stove.
This 4 quart is perfect for any kitchen and all kinds of tasks.
Utensils
As far as utensils, we’re sure you’ve got the basics.
We’ll be sharing a variety of tools to make cooking a more enjoyable experience, and much easier.
OXO Good Grips Swivel Peeler
This is a mega sharp peeler, without needing to apply much force it will easily peel anything from fruits to vegetables.
We’ve been using it for a few years without needing to buy another.
Quirky Pluck Yolk Extractor
A simple, easy and flexible yolk extractor that will make baking much easier during prep time.
Word of warning, be gentle while sucking the yolk, otherwise gathering the broken yolk will be nearly impossible.
Cutlery
One of the most important tools in the kitchen is a chef’s cutlery. If you want to rapidly cut through anything and create perfect slices of meat, fruits, and vegetables, then you want a good cutlery. It’s not worth buying dull and ordinary knives.
It’s best to have a high-end knife that will last a long time without the need to purchase one again, so below are the only knives we have in our kitchen that’s used for slicing, chopping, and cutting.
DALSTRONG 8 Inch Chef Knife
Have you ever wanted to cut food like a chef on TV? With outstanding craftsmanship, cutting-edge technology, and perfect design, you won’t have any performance problems with this knife.
From every aspect, from the shape to the way the handle fits perfectly in your hands, it’s designed for maximum control.
DALSTRONG 6 Inch Utility Knife
When you’re looking for cutting which requires more finesse or a more detailed cut with great balance, a utility knife is what exactly what you will normally need and look for.
It’s razor sharp and polished blades is perfect for slicing, peeling, cutting salads, carving and other specific needs that always arises.
DALSTRONG 10 INCH BREAD KNIFE Gladiator series
Because of it’s narrow and serrated blade, it’s the perfect knife for cutting bread, cakes, buns and other baked goods.
It’s also perfect for cutting meats like turkey, meatloaf and such with perfect thin slices if that’s what you’re looking for.
KitchenIQ 2 Stage Knife Sharpener
To expand a knife’s lifespan sharpening and honing it required from time to time. If you sharpen a knife too soon it will wear down; sharpen too much, and it’ll become dull and unusable.
The best way to sharpen is by going electric instead of manually sharpening with a whetstone.