Real Chefs Don’t Use Gadgets

Somebody needs to tell the world how silly this is. No one needs any of these objects.
You won’t use them and you will actually feel bad about owning them. They are a daily reminder of the insufficiency of human enjoyments.
 Here is what a person needs to cook well: two high quality pans, one big and one little, with lids; two corresponding pots; a roasting pan; a big chef’s knife and a small- to medium-sized one, like a santoku; a spatula; a big spoon; a big fork; a grater; a cutting board; and three or four other necessaries, depending on what you like to cook. For Josh Ozersky, that means a microplane grater, for getting cheese onto spaghetti. It also means a heavy reinforced spatula, for pushing down hamburgers, and a can opener, for opening cans. That’s it. You may want three or four other things. But there should be a limit. And the limit should be what you actually use.
We need to stop giving ourselves a pass on buying stuff we don’t need.