Justifying Kitchen Equipment, Kitchen Stories, Cookbook Green Flags

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🍿 Cold Open

• Tillamook Waffle Cone Ice Cream Sandwiches: https://www.tillamook.com/products/ice-cream/sandwiches

🧰 Products that are a good price with solid engineering

• Fellow: https://fellowproducts.com
• Vitamix Hand blenders: https://cultflav.com/products/vitamix-immersion-blender
• Made In: https://madeincookware.com
  • Just avoid the wok: https://cultflav.com/products/made-in-blue-carbon-steel-wok
• Heritage Steel: https://www.heritagesteel.us
• Goldilocks Cookware: https://cookgoldilocks.com

💸 Just because something is expensive doesn’t mean it’s good

• Our Place: https://cultflav.com/products/our-place-always-pan-pro
  • Our Place tablewares: https://fromourplace.com/collections/tableware
• All-Clad: https://cultflav.com/products/all-clad-d3-8qt-stockpot
  • Patent expired in 2014: https://www.centurylife.org/a-not-so-brief-history-of-all-clad/
  • Sued for ‘dishwasher safe’ false advertising: https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/closed-settlements/all-clad-dishwasher-safe-false-advertising-4m-class-action-settlement/
• SMEG - That one Weezer Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4

😭 Expensive and over-engineered products

• GE profile: https://www.geappliances.com/smart-stand-mixers
• All-Clad Cordless Hand Blender: https://cultflav.com/products/all-clad-cordless-hand-blender
• Vitamix Ascent Series: https://www.vitamix.com/us/en_us/shop/smart-system-blenders
• Veg-Table by Nik Sharma: https://cultflav.com/products/nik-sharma-veg-table

🛠️ Expensive due to unique engineering

• Hestan NanoBond: https://cultflav.com/products/hestan-nanobond-skillet
  • Culinary Institute of America in Napa: https://www.ciachef.edu/cia-california/
• MannKitchen Pepper Cannon: https://mannkitchen.com/products/the-original-pepper-cannon-pepper-mill
• Peugeot Pepper Mill: https://us.peugeot-saveurs.com/en_us/pepper-mills
• Skeppshult: (No longer selling that pepper grinder)
• Weber Workshop Pepper Grinder: https://weberworkshops.com/products/moulin-pepper?variant=51724360778100
• Chef’s Press: https://cultflav.com/products/chef-bruce-hill-the-chefs-press
  • Chef’s Press Review: https://youtu.be/UH1vMzeahN4?si=WU5esykKYyzjy0D_
• Breville Control Freak: https://www.breville.com/en-us/product/cmc850

💡Our Hyperfixation Products

• Kitchenaid Ice Cream Bucket: https://www.kitchenaid.com/countertop-appliances/stand-mixers/attachments/p.ice-cream-maker-attachment.ksmicm.html
• Wynter Ice Cream Maker: https://amzn.to/4cbBcig
• Lello Musso Pola 5030: https://amzn.to/4hVtt9j
• Behmor 2000AB Plus: https://www.sweetmarias.com/behmor-2000ab-plus-roaster.html
• Aillio Bullet R2: https://www.sweetmarias.com/aillio-bullet-r2-roaster.html

👋 Questions

“I’m curious what your craziest kitchen story is?”

                                                                   - Amy

📚Cookbook Green Flags Mentions

• First Generation by Frankie Gaw: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690431/first-generation-by-frankie-gaw/
• Agak Agak by Shu Han Lee: https://amzn.to/421dIaR
• Persiana by Sabrina Ghayour: https://cultflav.com/products/sabrina-ghayour-persiana
• Diasporican by Illyanna Maisonet: https://cultflav.com/products/illyanna-maisonet-diasporican
• Amrikan by Kushbu Shah: https://amzn.to/4iZdwQc
• Sift by Nicola Lamb: https://amzn.to/3DV105z
• Bravetart by Stella Parks: https://amzn.to/42mwomI
  • Sauces by James Peterson: https://amzn.to/4c86Ugp
  • The Great Scandinavian Baking Book by Beatrice Ojakangas: https://amzn.to/4cc1dxZ
  • Pass the Plate by Carolina Gelen: https://amzn.to/4iJLwjR
• Foodheim by Eric Wareheim: https://cultflav.com/products/eric-wareheim-foodheim
• Coconut & Sambal by Lara Lee: https://cultflav.com/products/lara-lee-coconut-and-sambal
• Family Meal by Ferran Adria: https://cultflav.com/products/ferran-adri-the-family-meal
• Start Here by Sohla El-Waylly: https://cultflav.com/products/sohla-el-waylly-start-here
• The Chinese Way by Betty Liu: https://amzn.to/3RnHLEN
• All Under Heaven by Carolyn Phillips: https://cultflav.com/products/carolyn-phillips-all-under-heaven
• Africana by Lerato Umah-Shaylor: https://cultflav.com/products/lerato-umah-shaylor-africana
• A Super Upsetting Cookbook About Sandwiches by Tyler Kord: https://cultflav.com/products/tyler-kord-a-super-upsetting-cookbook-about-sandwiches

📝Correction: Sohla El-Waylly is an author who came from an organization, (Bon Appetite) and we did think her book, Start Here was a hit.

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