I don't care how excited you are to get in the kitchen, if you don't have the right tools and you don't know the correct techniques, you won't get very far. I know. I speak from experience. So, to help you avoid the pitfalls that I've broken ankles in (can you say: stay up all night making and remaking a cake because I didn't know how to mix it properly?) I have this handy section for you. Here you'll find a pretty exhaustive list of tools you can't live without and those that you'd be wasting money to buy. There's also a section on cooking verbs: techniques--all the "how tos" that you ask yourself. "What do they mean by dock? Is a boat involved?" Sometimes kitchen-speak can be a foreign language. The techniques section is your Kitchen to English Dictionary!
Pastry Tools
Pastry Techniques
