8 Cookware Essentials That Are Worth the Cabinet Space
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Credit: Left: Smithey Ironware, Top right: Lodge, Bottom right: Zwilling
There’s no shortage of kitchen gadgets and cookware available to the modern home chef. The question is, what is really necessary? I, for one, am not a fan of cabinets stuffed to the brim with hardly used objects that take up precious kitchen real estate. But whenever I deem my go-to pan utterly useless or get that urge to shop for a nifty little gadget, I have to remind myself that people have been cooking phenomenal, memory-making meals for centuries — and for most of history, they had very few cookware items.
So, in the spirit of less is more, here are the eight cookware essentials (all under $400!) that are worth the cabinet space they inhabit, because they deliver — meal after meal, year after year.