This is like how David Denby and Anthony Lane can't write one New Yorker best films of the year column...
These are the real things you need. And, these are, for all intents and purposes, single items instead of single categories like "knives" or "utensils."
1) small chef's knife (less than 8" so it can double as a paring knife without risking a major injury).
2) serrated knife (imagine slicing bread or tomatoes with anything else...disastre!)
3) large skillet (preferably non-stick but good quality non-stick so you don't wind up sterile).
4) dutch oven. (what she said).
5) colander (unless you want to remove pasta from boiling water with your bare hands)
6) baking pan (she called this a jelly roll pan, because she is pretentious...like david denby)
7) prep bowl (plastic with a spout so you can pour stuff out of it; you don't need three. you need one)
8) silicone spatula
9) measuring cups (spoons are good too but you can use normal spoons in a pinch or to measure a pinch...)
10) cutting board. big. bamboo. no plastic crap because it dulls knives and harbors germs unless you want to use bleach on a regular basis, which you don't (unless you're vp who once bleached everything in her house, including her cat).
see, ten things. just ten. if you want eleven, buy a good pepper grinder. pre-ground pepper is basically dirt that comes in a metal tin.
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