Equip Your Kitchen with Ina Garten’s Top 12 Product Picks (2024)

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What cookware does Ina Garten recommend? ›

The All-Clad brand of pots and pans is prominently featured in Garten's work, from her TV appearances to her website's cookware shop. The queen of cuisine is drawn to the brand's versatility and high-quality material, keying in on its longevity.

Oxo Good Grips Food Scale

Baking is an exact science. Ina uses this Oxo food scale to keep everything precise — and delicious.

If you've watched just one episode of “Barefoot Contessa” with Ina Garten, you'd almost certainly spot a KitchenAid stand mixer. Whether it's in use to make recipes like her famous Beatty's Chocolate Cake, or looking display-worthy in the background, it's a hallmark of Garten's kitchen.

Ina's Answer: I use aluminum sheet pans that you can buy at any cookware store. If any food is baked on after I use them, I put them in the sink with the hottest tap water and soap and let them soak overnight. The next morning they should come out perfectly clean, using a Brillo pad if necessary.

The All Clad cookware set is the best stainless steel set we've tested. The All-Clad D3 Everyday Stainless-steel set exceeded all of our testing expectations during testing. Its ultra-durable tri-ply construction and wide cooking surface area yielded excellent results in the kitchen.

For those looking to borrow the look for themselves, Garten revealed in the comments that the countertop material is Calacatta Gold marble. Garten kept around the big glass flour jar (which you can buy a dupe of from Ikea!)

Bosch Home

Bosch is a staff favorite, and you'll find it at the top of some of our best appliance roundups, from dishwashers to electric ranges. It's no wonder, considering the company has been around since 1886 and leading the industry ever since.

Maldon Sea Salt Flakes 1.5kg/3.3lbs Tub

That particular flakiness is the reason many chefs, celebrities and foodies adore it. Ina Garten, for example, divulged that Maldon is one of her top three salt brands and it's always in her pantry.

No table is complete without flatware, and Garten's silverware of choice is a brand called Chambly; she shared on Instagram that she uses it daily! However, if you can't afford the higher-priced version, there's no reason to fret: It's just plain flatware.

Garten specifically noted that if you have a chef's knife, a paring knife, a slicing knife, and a bread knife, you're in good hands. Over the years, Garten has shared that one of her most-loved brands is Wüsthof, a German-style knife company known for its long-lasting designs and sharp blades.

What kind of cutting board does Ina Garten use? ›

John Boos Chop-N-Slice Maple Cutting Board

The iconic wooden cutting boards from John Boos are beloved by working restaurant pros along with celebrity chefs including Ina Garten and Giada De Laurentiis.

Chef Ina Garten has revealed to Food Network Magazine that she always reaches for this brand of cake flour. Garten says that Swans Down brand is the gold standard for fluffy, delicate cakes, since their cake flour is 27 times finer than standard all-purpose flour.

Garten recommends using a good bittersweet chocolate (she prefers Valrhona Le Noir 56% Cacao Semisweet Chocolate) and says to never use chocolate chips "because they have stabilizers in them."

Another, pricier option is the White Dinnerware set from Pillivuyt, a French brand Ina recommends for serving ware as well. Aside from the simple, clean lines, both sets are dishwasher-, microwave-, and oven-safe, a must in Ina's—and our—book.

These days, cookware options are endless: ceramic, copper, nonstick, cast iron — they all have their positives and place in the kitchen. But the prized possession and frequently sought-after by professional chefs and serious home cooks alike is stainless steel.

About GreenPan Premiere

The GreenPan Premiere collection is the brand's most advanced nonstick cookware to date, and to relaunch this line the brand teamed up with chef Bobby Flay. "GreenPan Premiere has become my favorite nonstick cookware hands down," says Flay.

True Ina Garten fans know that the Barefoot Contessa often uses Le Creuset enameled cast iron cookware. "I use the Le Creuset #26 Dutch oven more often than everything else," she writes on her website in response to a fan asking for a cookware recommendation.