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Bakers are a finicky bunch. What we like: precision, accuracy, clean lines, repeatable results. What we don’t like: imprecision, inaccuracy, messy lines, haphazard results.

Designed with the most exacting baker in mind, this list has something for every baker, whether you like baking sweet stuff or you’re into turning out beautiful boules.

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Chef Recs: Equipment for Bakers

There are so many great books out there, on every conceivable subject. Rather than go through the endless possibilities, we selected some of our favorite books about cooking and food. 

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Chef Recs: Our Favorite Cookbooks

If you want to fully take advantage of seitan’s potential, having a little bit of gear helps.

With a few tools and some creativity with cardboard and foil, you’ll be able to manipulate and cook seitan so it takes on a range of different textures, flavors, and forms.

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Essential Equipment for Making Seitan

If you’re a culinary mad scientist who’s always trying strange, delicious things, you’ll appreciate this curated list of modernist cooking tools and ingredients.

From the ultimate modernist cooking kit to nifty powders, there’s something unusual and interesting here for literally any kind of cook.

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Chef Recs: Equipment for Modernist Cooking

*This page is part of our [link https://www.chefsteps.com/classes/cookies American Drop Cookie Class].* As we’ll explore in other parts of the [link https://www.chefsteps.com/classes/cookies Drop Cookie Class], this kind of cookie is relatively simple to bake compared to its fancier piped, meringue-based, rolled, and stenciled brethren. But you still need to scale smartly, master the creaming method, and find the best baking pans that fit your oven and yield beautiful results. 

You don’t need much to bake a batch of drop cookies, but there are a few essential tools that will give you the best return on your baking investment. Quality tools and proper storage separate cookie rookies from the rockstars.

The links below are for all of our favorite cookie baking tools. This equipment is tried-and-true and has stood the test of time as we baked hundreds (and maybe even thousands) of batches of cookies.

You don’t need much to bake a batch of drop cookies, but you do need a few quality tools to get started.

American Drop Cookie: Baking Tools and Equipment

Your oven is the star here, but no one performs alone. Tools that fit and properly function with your particular oven will be what makes that star shine. 

The right tool for your particular oven should complement the cooking process, not hinder it. To that end, we have made a list of tools and equipment that work well with [link https://breville.oie8.net/e4Y5jD the Joule® Oven Air Fryer Pro], since that is the oven we have been using for our trials. You might have to make some small adjustments for the oven you are using.

If you are using a countertop oven, like the Joule® Oven Air Fryer Pro, then here is a list of equipment and tools that work well to make that oven better for your needs.

Chef Recs

The equipment, tools, and ingredients you need to level up in the kitchen. Real recommendations from real chefs.

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