Our Top 6 Tools For the Homestead Kitchen

Learn here about our top 6 favorite tools we use in our homestead kitchen!

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Tool #1: Our Vitamix 5200 blender!

A Vitamix is soooooo much more than a blender! We use ours every day, throughout the day, for everything from smoothies and ice cream, to butter and peanut butter, to grinding grain and almond flour, to making creamed soups and baby food!

It gets a LOT of use during canning season too! We can the best applesauce ever by cutting the core off the apples, cooking till soft, and throwing in the Vitamix, peel and all (plus a dash of cinnamon!). We pour the hot applesauce straight from the Vitamix into jars to be canned in a water bath. Besides saving time, blending the peel with the applesauce adds nutrition, a beautiful pink color, and boatloads of flavor to the finished applesauce!

 

Tool #2: Our Cuisinart Crock Pot

What can I say about the kitchen’s wonder tool that hasn’t already been said? We use our Cusinart throughout the week for easy soups and stews, meat and veggie dishes, rice and our super easy refried beans from scratch recipe.

 

 

Tool #3: Our Faithful KitchenAid Mixer!

Did you know you can make mashed potatoes in a mixer? It really saves your arm from all that mashing! Plus, you can leave the skins on the potatoes if you choose! They come in so many fun colors now!

 

Tool #4: My Presto Dehydrator!

Definitely one of my favorites! My Presto gets a lot of use in the summer and fall, drying all kinds of fruit and fruit leather, veggies, herbs, jerky, even crackers!

 

Tool #5: The Wonderful Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker!

I don’t think I could count how many different kinds of ice cream we’ve made in our Cuisinart, everything from rich, creamy, custard vanilla bean ice cream, to orange sorbet with maple syrup, to decadent chocolate coconut milk ice cream sweetened with agave. My mouth is watering just thinking about it….

But really, it is so handy and so much deliciously amazing fun to have fresh, homemade ice cream any time you want it, with whatever ingredients you choose, in whatever flavor you choose.

Yep, my ice cream maker definitely belongs on this list!

 

Tool #6: Giant Stainless Steel Mixing Bowls

A big stainless steel bowl? Definitely a necessity for every homestead kitchen! Whether you are soaking garden veggies for freezing, or mixing up a big batch of granola or herbal teas, this is the tool for the job!