I recently bought a 32 cm Demeyere Proline 7 frying pan, and pretty soon figured out that while it is great for more specialized use cases (as in, cooking dishes that are not suitable for carbon steel pans for a larger group of people) it is absolutely bloody too massive and unwieldy for day-to-day cooking. So, I bought the 28 cm version of it
That is actually pretty darned big still as Demeyere uses the inner width of their pans for indicating size (vs. the more common outer width). Anyhow, it is an awesome pan so I see it getting a ton of use along with my carbon steel pans (a variety of sizes and styles mostly from the Mineral B line from deBuyer).
Other recent purchases… a new pair of 30 cm tweezers from a local kitchen supply store, they are great as they are more resilient/springy vs. the usual mass produced ones that bend out of shape if you squeeze them together too hard. The teeth are also sharp… quality pieces of kit. Also, another Microplane zester/grater
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I also seem to have gone overboard with my recent purchases of Japanese rice…
Pictured, 5 kg of Koshibuki rice from Niigata prefecture, 5 kg of Koshihikari rice from Ibaraki prefecture, and in between 2 kg bag of Kaneyama rice, all great for sushi but also for generic use.
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