Setting up your kitchen – Jamie Oliver’s Home Cooking Skills

before you start cooking anything it’s a
really good idea obviously to get all of
your equipment ready all of your
ingredients ready but also it’s a good
idea to give yourself lots of space to
work now look at this kitchen here it’s
got lots of lovely things in it but a
lot of them I don’t need to do the
recipes that I want to do so it’s I’m
gonna actually declutter this area get
rid of things I don’t need and what
that’s gonna do is give me loads of room
to lay out all my ingredients do all my
work and I won’t get in the muddle and
everything will be under control so for
example all these bottles here the only
one I need is olive oil so I’m just
going to leave the olive oil here and
the rest I’m gonna take and put next
door now I can always put them back
later but I don’t need them at the
minute so I’m just gonna get them out
the way olive oil I’ve got my cooking
implements here these candles I don’t
need this mug I don’t need kind of salt
and pepper
so yeah salt and pepper here got my
scales that’s good these things I don’t
need put my cookbooks don’t need that
what books are there with my recipes in
with chopping boards here my notebook
that’s good no fruit bowl I don’t need
this right in a minute so what I’ll do
is just stick this on top of the fridge
next door I can always put it back later
egg whisk don’t need for this recipe
I’ll pop it in the drawer now jar full
of pains and bits and bobs I don’t need
that
magazines I’ll put in the living room
you can see the space I’m opening up
here already and it’s just gonna make
things much much easier to control mugs
some people have mug trees you know
they’re pretty things are useful things
but they’re actually just getting away
so I’m gonna pop these over here for the
time being it doesn’t matter where you
move these things to you know it could
be next door in the living room it could
be on the dining room table
it could be in the study could be in the
spare room be anywhere you like just
long as they’re out the way so that you
can really get to grips with your
cooking okay lemons I’m gonna need some
lemon so I’m gonna keep those there and
press the mortar I want these herbs I’m
not going to use these hurts today so
what I’ll do is put them outside just
I’ll put the right side just till I
finish cooking but no and then I’ll put
them back so these cookbooks I’ve got
the one that I want
so these I’m just gonna stack on the
floor so they’re not in the way so can
you think already just how much more
room there is just how much easier is
going to be to work in this kitchen so
that’s one of the important steps or
preparing yourself to cook anything at
all and let’s give yourself space to
work