You can replace measuring spoons with a kitchen scale, 100x better for baking, and if you're using measuring spoons in your cooking you are a tool. Measuring cups can be useful occasionally to measure liquids.
I would add:
Whisk / saucewhisk (How else you gon' make sauces?)
Colanders are largely useless as well if you have a lid for your pot, you can generally separate the water from whatever you're cooking using that.
A sieve is more useful, you can use it as a colander if you want, you can use it to sift flour, you can use it to separate much finer things from what you're cooking than you can with a colander.
I would also add a large ceramic baking dish.
>>4027332I have a Scanpan non-stick pans, have lasted me ~2 years of regular use.
I have been living a "minimalist" kitchen life for the last 3 years out of poverty, it is fucking ridiculous. While you can have too much clutter, then having to do something else because you don't have the right tools to do something the right way is fucking annoying. I mean I make it work, but I wish I didn't have to.
I have been using the same 10$ IKEA stainless steel chef's knife for 2 years. All of my nice cookware has been birthday / christmas gifts from my mom over the last 2-3 years (2 scanpan pans,1 scanpan pot, 2 le creuset oven dishes, 3 melanine mixing bowls).
