Seasoned home cooks know that a kitchen is truly nothing without a suite of reliable tools and trusty gadgets. The most basic equipment will keep your plates spinning before any meal, but the real time-savers come in clutch when you're cutting it close. And your everyday accessories don't have to be anything fancy to get the job done — just look at celebrity chef Ina Garten.
The Barefoot Contessa's kitchen is packed with handy appliances and utensils that have lasted her ages. In Garten's new memoir, the Food Network star turns the clock back to the late 1960s — the early days of her marriage — and talks about a tool she's held onto for decades. "I was enamored of anything Scandinavian — Marimekko, Dansk," she writes.
"I actually still have a spatula from our first kitchen." Of course, Garten's kitchen in East Hampton, New York, is stocked these days with more than just a half-century-old spatula. Many of her favorite gadgets are just a few clicks away online, from oven thermometers to indispensable dutch ovens.
Weigh in with a reliable kitchen scale In a 2020 , Ina Garten takes us on a tour of her barn kitchen where she works and ensures viewers who might be intimidated by her resplendent supplies, "I don't have a lot of fancy equipment; I have just things that anybody else would have in their kitchen." And it's true: The real workhorses of Garten's kitchen are readily available gadgets, like this . Garten shows off the OXO scale in the video, and it also appears on .
