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- Hey guys, today on the Edgy Veg,
I'm going to show you all the appliances
that I have in my kitchen,
as well as some recommendations that I have
for you to stock your kitchen,
if you are cooking on a regular basis.
So I'm gonna share with you the essentials,
that I think everyone needs,
if you're going to cook.
As well as some fun things that I have in my kitchen
that make my life easier, that might make
your life easier as well.
In my pantry video that came out,
I don't know, a couple weeks ago,
you guys asked to see what appliances I had,
and what appliances I use on a regular basis.
So I'm gonna share with you,
ones that I think that you need,
and the ones that are just kind of fun,
that I love to have, that make my life a lot easier.
And so you guys can find these things super easily,
I'm going to leave links to each item,
in the description box below.
So if you want to buy them, you absolutely can.
Okay so this is my core appliances,
like if you wanted to cook on a regular basis,
these are the ones that I would suggest.
I use at least a combination of two or three
of these every time that I'm cooking.
So first and foremost, if you are going to do
a lot of your own cooking at home,
making your own vegan sauces, and melts, et cetera,
you need a high-speed blender.
I like the VitaMix, it's my favorite.
There's also Blend Tech, and there's also
less expensive versions of it as well.
There's also the NutriBullet as well,
so I have my VitaMix here which I use almost daily.
But then I also have my little Magic Bullet here,
and these are for smaller things.
I will make my egg replacers in here,
I also use it as like a spice grinder.
So I will make almond milk in here,
I will make sauces in here,
Hollandaise, what else do I make in here?
Pretty much anything.
My everyday smoothie is made in here.
You can even use this and cook soups,
like if you let it go for long enough,
it will heat it up.
So I love these, I'll leave some alternatives,
less expensive versions, in the description box below.
As well as the ones that I have.
So definitely get yourself a high-speed blender,
because we're blending a lot of cashews,
in our vegan lifestyle.
So you're gonna need that.
The second thing is a food processor.
I love this guy.
And here's why.
It's because I'm lazy, and I don't want to chop vegetables.
So this guy will chop my onions for me,
it'll slice my vegetables, like slicing carrots.
I never have to do that again,
I never have to slice onions again,
because I have the food processor.
Also really great for baking.
You can make like pizza dough in your food processor.
So you don't have to knead it,
you can do it all in here, which is incredible.
So I have this guy, I'm gonna, again,
leave some options in the description box below.
This is more of, it's like a twelve cup
professional version, you can even get like the little guy,
to like pulse nuts and seeds, and make energy bars
and whatever else and chop your vegetables,
and nuts, and that sort of thing.
Oh, I also make nut butter in this.
So if you ever have peanut butter,
but you have enough peanuts,
you can make nut butters in this,
so that's pretty awesome.
The other thing that I have been converted to,
which at first I rolled my eyes at, is my Instant Pot.
And here's why.
I thought it was ridiculous, at first.
But this guy will make rice,
like the perfect rice, in like twenty minutes.
It's incredible.
I never knew how to cook rice on the stove.
Well it's not that I didn't know how to do it,
I just didn't pay attention enough,
I'd forget about it, I'd walk away, I'd screw it up.
So this guy makes perfect rice, perfect quinoa,
and also it will remove the need to soak beans and lentils.
So remember the days of like soaking beans and lentils
over night, so you'd have to like plan ahead.
You'd have to know that like, in three days,
I want beans for x meal.
Now you can just throw them in there,
unsoaked, and in like 40 minutes,
you have perfect beans every time.
So this is amazing, you can do so many things in it.
You can do one pot meals,
like sautee, cook, everything,
pressure cook, it's, I love it.
I love it so much.
So these are my go-tos, this is what I think
that most people should have in their kitchen.
But I also have some fun ones as well.
I know I've done a couple of Instant Pot recipes
on the channel, do you guys want more?
Leave me a comment in the comment section below,
because I love using this thing
and I love learning how to use this thing.
So I'd love to share with you what I'm doing,
also Instant Pot favorites, or basics,
do you guys want that?
Let me know in the comment section below.
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Okay now all this stuff, is stuff that's helpful,
but not like totally necessary.
But I do use them on a regular basis, as well.
Just because of what I do here on YouTube,
and on the blog.
My juicer, obsessed.
This is a Hurom slow juicer.
I used to have the centrifuge juicer,
which I liked because it was easy clean-up,
and it was really fast.
I find this one to be just as fast,
and just as easy to clean up.
I will make ginger shots in this.
Really great if I have some leftover produce
that needs to get eaten in the next day or two,
and I don't plan on cooking it,
I can just put it through my juicer and drink it.
Really great for food waste, obsessed with this thing,
it also can make soy milk and almond milk,
which is super helpful.
My spiralizer, so I don't use this much right now,
because it's winter and I love warming pasta,
so I'm not going to make zucchini noodles,
but every vegan needs one of these in their kitchen.
A waffle maker.
I love breakfast, you guys know this,
the amount of breakfast recipe videos,
I have on this channel is ridiculous.
Love waffles, love pancakes,
so always have one of those.
This is my stand mixer.
Some people have a hand mixer and a bowl,
I love the stand mixer because I don't have to stand there
and hold the mixer myself.
Use this in baking all the time.
So I use it all the time but you can get away
with a hand mixer and a bowl as well.
I just prefer to use this,
so it's not a complete essential,
but it definitely makes my life easier.
It has a whisking attachment,
it has a paddle attachment,
and I even have the ice cream attachment
so I can make my own ice cream at home,
which is amazing.
And a lot cheaper, than buying the plant-based
stuff at the store.
And you can kind of tailor your own flavors,
and that's a whole other video in itself.
Then, I have my coffee thing.
So I'm a huge coffee snob.
I recently stopped drinking coffee,
so now I'm doing decaf coffee,
as well as like mushroom lattes,
and hot chocolate, and golden milk,
and trying to navigate my life
through this no caffeine zone that I'm in right now
because of my anxiety.
But I have, oops.
I have a coffee grinder, I have my mocha espresso pot
that I do on the stove.
So this is a mini guy, because it's just me,
so it'll do two shots of espresso,
as opposed to the normal one, which is four.
And then I have my milk frother.
Like if you have not had your coffee,
or hot chocolate, or golden milk,
or mushroom latte, or tea,
with frothed milk, what are you doing with your life?
Like this is a game changer, it's so amazing.
It just warms up your milk and makes it nice and frothy.
Even if I just want like more milk,
because I'm a child with some cookies before bed.
It's amazing, you have to get this.
Last but not least, oh my scale.
So I convert a lot of my parents' old recipes
and my grandmothers' old recipes
from European to, European, European's not a language.
From German to English and it's always got in grams.
So I use this to convert them,
so I can convert it to like cups and tablespoons, whatever,
so I have a scale.
Also handy for a lot of other things.
Uh, yeah.
So these are ones that I love to use on a regular basis,
but isn't essential, especially if you're on a budget,
you can get away with not having these things.
But I have them.
Wow, I'm like really shedding here,
what is happening?
Alright and last not but least,
these are some things that you like really don't need
in your home, but I just happen to have them,
because I got them for a gift or I just thought it was fun.
The first thing is this tabletop cooker.
This is what I use for shoots,
so when you guys see overhead shots,
we are doing it on this guy,
so we can get nice shots for you guys,
I thought that you would think that that was interesting,
so I can put a pan or whatever on here,
and then cook and cook anywhere,
also great if you're like camping.
The other thing is my popcorn maker.
If you have my cookbook,
you know that I love popcorn,
it's like one of my favorite things to eat.
And there's a lot of different flavor shakers
that we have in the cookbook.
I like to pop my own popcorn,
as opposed to like buying the popcorn,
in those like packets that you throw in the microwave.
I just put like kernels in here,
I put some Earth Balance in here,
and then shake it up with some flavor shakers,
and it's amazing, it's just a fun, nice adult way
to eat popcorn.
And then this guy is for my VitaMix,
so this is a dry blender.
So I can make my own almond flour,
oat flour, I mean I guess I could make like normal flour,
millet at home as well, if I wanted to.
But this is amazing, so it'll just like,
finely grind anything that you want,
into a powder.
So again, not essential, but helpful,
if you're in a pinch, and you have some almonds,
and you need almond flour, but you don't have almond flour.
So, yeah, I thought you guys would think
that was interesting, so that's why I'm sharing
these as well.
Alright guys, I hoped you liked this video,
let me know in the comment section below
what appliances you guys have at home,
and which ones you'd love to get
for your kitchen.
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