What kitchen items for a Wedding Registry?

[steveazz]

Starting to form a wedding registry what kitchen items could you not live without?

A bluetooth/wifi meat thermometer.

 

[isocyanate]

If caffeine is your drug...this. I can't live without it.

If you have these kind of friends....we have an E8.....it's amazing...


Needs:
A good knives, I like victorinox (not expensive), chef's, paring, boning, bread, and large slicer. I also have a small 5" chef's style that gets a lot of use. Has a nice flexible blade.
12" cast iron skillet
Enameled Dutch oven
Big Stock Pot
Several good size mixing and prep bowls, I prefer stainless, but my wife bought a bungh of pyrex ones too. By some miracle, I haven't broken any yet.
Set of nice pots/pans, I prefer ss again...
I love having a vitamix around
Baking sheets, several
Multiple sets of measuring cups
At least one big cutting board, and several smaller. For cross contamination and such.
We have ONE OF THESE slow cookers, use it all the time.

A kitchenaid is nice to have, but I rarely need mine...

 

[Sherman]

No kitchen is complete without a Christensen Arms 28 Nosler.

 

[CrossthreadLoctite]

Some cheap and seemingly uncommon items we had on our registry that we use all the time are multiple sizes of aluminum (restaurant style) baking sheets and racks. The standard size for at home use is a half sheet pan, which we have several of, but we also have a number of quarter and eighth sheets that are super convenient to use. They take up way less space in the fridge, counter, dishwasher, cabinet, etc. Also, the aluminum doesn't warp or bend in the oven like the cheap steel ones do. They do, however, burn you skin like an SOB if you accidentally touch them while hot.

The quarter sheet pans with a rack are the perfect size for dry brining steaks or medium roasts overnight in the fridge without having to clean an entire shelf off to make room.

 

[Sherman]

Prenup

 

[Grumman]

Cutco kitchen shears


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[TheGDog]

Serious cookware. The pots and pans. (And the Cutlery) Ensure they are big enough inside to hold and cook the kinds of dishing you might like to make a lot. Also... if possible checkout this cookware to see if you can grab the lid handle without having to blow on it first if it's resting upon a pot/pan that's in the middle of cooking stuff right now.

Also on pots/pans with handles on them, again, test grabbing them when they pot/pan is hot and you're cooking stuff in it. IMHO you should be able to grab the damn long handle on a pot and not have to wrry about burning your hand. Well... apparently some manufacturers never got that Memo!

Major PITA to have pots/pans where ya need a damn oven mitt or whatever just to take the lid off or just to grab the darn handle to move it upon the stove.

Mandolin's are cheap, don't waste a spot on your registry with cheap isht. Typically is costs tween $75-125 per head to invite someone to a wedding. Don't give those f**kers an option which allows them to cheap out on you, they WILL do it. Hell... you'll STILL get people who bring you some sh*t that wasn't even on the registry like a stupid a$$ George Foreman grill or whatever the heck other BS re-gifting bullshit they're trying to do.

 

[TheGDog]

Hrmm... let's see... what else in the kitchen....

Good high quality stainless steel mixing bowls with rubberized grippy bottoms.

A Molcajete!! And it's got to be one where YOU have to do the work of breaking it in initially by grinding rice in it to break-off the tiny pieces of the volcanic rock which will break loose initially. If you cook at all and have any kinda pride in what you make... then you need you a Molcajete (Mortar and Pestle made out of Volcanic rock). For example, when I make my sauteed Red Rose Potatoes I'll put the dried Rosemary into the Molcajete and grind it up well so all pieces get even coating of the flavor!

Also when making Guacamole I use the Molcajete for combining the Cilantro and onion and Oregano. And I like to satuee my onions in EV Olive Oil first, so I put those onion right into the molcajete and grind it all together before it goes into the Guac. So that way the main flavor ingredients get a chance to combine proper.

Oh... also a wine fridge. In time your wife will be into that sorta thing. Seems like more and more once the ladies hit middle age on up... I don't know what it is about wine or events centered around wine and wine-tasting... but dang they go nutty for that stuff.

Um.. make sure to add a nice non-stick pizza baking tray to the list.

If you don't bake your Bacon in the convection oven (which I recommend) add a Bacon Press to the list so you can make those nice pleasing-looking straight pieces of Bacon!

You need a righteous spice rack. But those are cheap, so don't put it on your registry.

You'll want good quality tongs when you're cooking. Sometimes the quality of them is crappy and those are a PITA when cooking. Ya gotta baby them when opening and closing because the company got cheap with how they produced it. Skip ones like that. When you're cooking you can't be slowed down with POS equipment adding difficulties for you.

OH! Hey! I know what to put on a registry! Have them get you one of those devices where you slide the steak under it and you pull the lever down and it perforates the steak with hundreds of needles so the flavors can get down into the meat! That would be an excellent item to put on a registry, as those things aren't exactly cheap, but not ridiculous spendy either.

Get a citrus juicer. But a high quality one though... where you can juice all the fruits off your tree at once. Not these lame o ones that are meant just for juicing enough for a morning breakfast only. And I'm not talking about a "Juicer" machine either. Those are different and they are a PITA to clean, so ya end up not using it as much as ya thought.

 

[SDChungus]

Large quality cutting board, quality chefs knife, couple quality pans and a good stock pot. A heavy porcelain / cast dutch oven...if your wife bakes cant say good enough about a kitchenaid. It works wonders for just about anything and is easy cleanup.

 

[PRC_GUY]

new fri!

 

[TheGDog]

Good knives, and then lock them in a drawer so your wife can’t use them. And when I say use, I refer to her using them as prybars, screwdrivers, saws on plastic, or any other way a person could use something for anything other than it’s intended purpose.

OMG... isn't that infuriating! Especially when that other person has no earthly idea, has no grasp, of how much that particular quality piece of gear you bothered to acquire (that they are about to EFF up) actually costs!

 

[CCooper]

Any of the Benchmade Kitchen knives
A nice handmade cutting board- size large
Calphalon pots and pans
Nespresso machine
Margaritaville Margarita Machine
Antique Cast Iron- Wagner or Griswold

All the other crap I can do without

 

[TheGDog]

Make sure the cutting boards have a blood groove around their edge too! Helps a lot to reduce bad messy isht from dripping onto your countertops.

Make sure to pick a microwave that's large enough for all possible re-heating jobs you might encounter in terms of hosting a party. Sucks to need to heat up something in smaller containers then dump it back into the larger sized platter/container that you intend to use for serving during the event.

A good way to have your friends help you in terms of registry is high quality dishes/flatware/place-settings/silverware. That isht adds up QUICK! Ask for 8 or 12 total place settings depending on size of your family.

Also... your wife might dig this... on your registry you can put down those fru-fru party-specific serving-ware items... such as if you were to do like a Taco bar at a Pool Party, for example, one of those nice compartmentalized containers with clear acrylic lids where you can put it onion/cilantro/cheese/etc in them.

Also along the lines of serving guests at an outdoor function, there are these little sorta food-tents that keep insects off the food. Definitely get them.

Sterno-fueled chaffing dishes.

Wine Decanter and aerator (for some reason the ladies dig on this things).

Oh also a pan specifically engineered for Roasting a Turkey/Chicken/WaterFowl. They come with a matching grating that holds the bird above the drippings.

And sometimes manufacturers make their own spatulas where part of their shape matches the shape of the bend in the sides of their pans. This helps with things like Scrambled Egg type of dishes so you can easily scrape it all back off the sides easily when folding.

And... if you have Latin members of your fam. Or you just want something that'll help with doing Euros of your skulls. Have them get you a decent quality large deep pot like what they use for making Tamales/Chuchitos.

Quality digital Electric Tea Kettle. I use this everyday for doing French Press for coffee.

And no matter what, you need these knives in your kitchen:
Cleaver
Serrated edge blade for cutting bread/tomatoes
Filet
A stout clipped point style of blade to help with separating butchering things like dividing up Rib racks to smaller sections where that clipped point can get in-between where the bones come together at the sternum or vertebral attachment points. Think like something to easily pop the Atlas joint on a deer, a blade like that.

Since you'e a sportsman, put a meat grinder or a food dehydrator or deli-slicer on that registry too, right!?

 

[TheGDog]

Any of the Benchmade Kitchen knives
A nice handmade cutting board- size large
Calphalon pots and pans
Nespresso machine
Margaritaville Margarita Machine
Antique Cast Iron- Wagner or Griswold

All the other crap I can do without

I agree too on the Calphalon pots and pans.

 

[HighUintas]

A new rifle

 

[Flipperock1]

Depends what kind of kitchen you want! Personally I like to aim for something outside the box and search through blogs like these - it gives me loads of inspiration for stuff I want and how I want it to look when it's up. Congrats on the wedding by the way!

 

[PRC_GUY]

I would put Autotrickler V4 and Area419 press on the list, or large and standard rifle Primers. That is my list.

 

[Gbrecka]

Out of all the stuff we got for our wedding, I use these stainless bowls the most frequently Cuisinart CTG-00-SMB Stainless Steel Mixing Bowls with Lids, 3 Piece https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004YZEO9K/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_VT2YVYJ64V9MRX3EA5V5

 

[Hackleback]

Our China, crystal and a lot of the electric kitchen appliances/gadgets seldom get used. The basic kitchen stuff does, though doesn't make as flashy of a gift.

 

[Joseph2186]

Sous vide machine