My Fridge and Kitchen Tour: A Glimpse into My Home Space

I'm thrilled to take you through my home kitchen, where I've been working on creating a functional and organized space that reflects my love for cooking and entertaining. As you can see, my fridge is fully stocked with all the essentials, from cow milk to oat milk, wine, and Lacroix. My cast-iron skillets are always within reach, along with measuring cups, mixing bowls, and other kitchen staples. I've also invested in a spice drawer that's been a labor of love – it's one of my proudest possessions.

As I walk through my kitchen, you'll notice the various sections and stations that make cooking and meal prep a breeze. Directly to the left of my range, I have a tiny bowl of flaky salts, a pint container of kosher salt, a pepper mill, and a squeeze bottle of olive oil – these are the things I reach for most often in my recipes. Next to this station is my spice drawer, which I've lovingly organized with everything from herbs to spices to baking supplies. It's become an extension of me, and I feel so lucky to have it as part of my kitchen.

Moving on to my pantry, you'll notice that it's a veritable treasure trove of goodies. Everything is labeled and stored neatly, making it easy for me to find what I need at a moment's notice. The highlight of this section is undoubtedly the appliances – we have three rice cookers and two pressure cookers that are always in high demand. My wine fridge is also a notable feature, as it's become an essential part of our entertaining routine.

As you can see, my pantry is a reflection of my love for exploring new cuisines and ingredients. You'll find everything from Asian noodles to white rice, and even some unexpected items like sunflower seeds and hazelnuts. I've also invested in a few high-end appliances, including a sheet tray and a sizzle tray – both of which have become indispensable tools in my kitchen.

One of the most important features of my kitchen is the space allocated for baking. As you can see, I have all the essentials within arm's reach, from cookie dough to flour and sugar. This area is dedicated entirely to baking and cooking, making it a haven for creativity and experimentation.

A Tour of My Mexico Home

After taking you through my home kitchen, let's take a journey with me to Mexico, where I've been based for the past six months. As we step into my current abode, you'll notice that things are not quite as organized as they were back in my previous space – but that's okay! This new setup has become its own little world, and I'm excited to share it with you.

As you can see, this kitchen is a bit more compact than the last one, but still manages to pack an impressive amount of storage and cooking options. My fridge is still stocked with all the essentials, including chicken stock and ball Chico – my favorite beverage in the universe. I've also brought some of my pantry items over, including pasta, romaine lettuce, and a few spices.

One of the most striking features of this kitchen is the beautiful pottery collection that adorns the shelves. Each piece has its own unique story to tell, and I'm thrilled to be able to share them with you. From Mexican folk art to elegant ceramics, every item has been carefully selected to reflect my love for Mexico and its culture.

As we explore further into this kitchen, you'll notice a few more treasures that have found their way into my new space. There's the emergency cookie dough station – because you never know when you need a sweet treat! And of course, there's also the sheet tray, which has become an essential tool in my cooking routine.

In this new home, I've discovered a newfound love for baking and experimenting with new recipes. The Mexican kitchen is still a work in progress, but it's already begun to feel like home – and that's all that matters. As I sit here surrounded by the sights and smells of my Mexico kitchen, I know that I'm exactly where I'm meant to be.

A Little Bit Extra: Organization and Storage

As you can see, my kitchen is a bit on the chaotic side – but that's just part of its charm! With three sheet trays, two pressure cookers, and multiple rice cookers all vying for space, things can get a little out of hand. However, I've learned to love this chaos and find beauty in it.

One of my favorite organizational tools is the sizzle tray – it's become an indispensable tool in my cooking routine, and I use it to make everything from steak to stir-fries. The sheet trays are also a game-changer for meal prep; I can store all the necessary ingredients and cookware within easy reach, making it simple to whip up a meal at a moment's notice.

As you look around this kitchen, you'll notice that there are several little stations and nooks dedicated to specific tasks or ingredients. From the spice station to the baking area, each section has its own unique charm – and I've lovingly curated every item within it.

While my kitchen may not be perfect, it's definitely mine – and that's what matters most. Whether you're a fellow foodie or just someone who loves to cook, I hope this little tour of my home space has given you a glimpse into the world of my kitchen.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enTest Kitchen what now I have to check my parents house in New Jersey this is my kitchen my brand-new kitchen I'm going to show you around you're gonna get to snoop on the phone fell off hold on all right I'm recording let's try that again all right so this is my kitchen I'm gonna take you it's not that big I'm gonna show you starting at one end this just is a place where I keep all my appliances food processor blender and stand mixer and then on the bottom dutch ovens it's just handy to have those things out and then this is a slab that I had cut from a surface that I used when I was shooting the photos for my book and for pastry purposes it's nice to have marble because it's great for rolling out dough so something I'm doing a lot at home and then on this side of the kitchen have cutting board that's all my friends at home they're looking real lively and then this area I like to have the things I use most frequently handy I have to spray bottles one is water because sometimes when you're cooking you want to slow down the cooking process so it's nice to spritz with a little bit of water in oil sprayer non-aerosol coarse sea salt that's this wonderful kind of gray Sicilian salt and this right here is the flaky salt I like to decant stuff into squeeze bottles chili oil black vinegar we eat a lot of frozen dumplings especially lately and this is my oven it's nice and large I love it it's actually very accurate oven bunch of fish spatulas which are maybe one of the most used kitchen tools strainers my good friend Julia the patron saint of home cooks everywhere so I like to keep that photo of Julia Child in the kitchen because just makes me feel good want you to say hi to my cat this is Maya the more skittish less friendly cat but she's actually being very social today in New York one thing I hate is like schlepping big boxes of cans and that kind of things so we have a SodaStream for making seltzer at home so my first time living in New York with a dishwasher it's incredible so so useful and important so that's my home kitchen it's usually in some state of disarray because someone's always cooking something and baking so I'm not looking nice and shiny for you guys we're gonna hopefully in the next coming weeks make a lot of fun stuff here so hi guys we're back in my kitchen in the East Village and I'm going to show you how I like to set myself up so I have a little kitchen but I feel like I've really optimized it I guess we'll start where it's the most ridiculous which is the spice cabinet which is all of this and it it keeps going I like to have my hot stuff so this is chilies different like chili blends like piri piri spice blend like anything that's like kind of spicy goes into the hot stuff over here I've got warm spices cinnamon cardamom nutmeg cloves that kind of stuff up top here that's my aromatic spices area fenugreek Nigella caraway this is funny business msg green mango powder stuff that you know really can't find a home anywhere else um oh and then the top shelf is all dried chillies I wasn't lying when I said I can make moly like right now so all right over here up top that's where I keep all my baking supplies I keep it out of reach because I bake too much so this way I have to like really work for it you know I often climb on stools get up on the counter so it's very dangerous and I'm probably going to die this way the most exciting cabinet right now is the snack cabinet which is abnormally full because you know stress snack eating I have bugles this really pisses everyone at the Test Kitchen off like they really hate this but I freeze my bananas whole I don't know why I probably shouldn't but I don't know I'm in my Britain Anna's get brown and then I panic I'm just gonna sit on the floor with you and show you my fridge okay there is always a lot of dairy in our fridge we're big dairy eaters so there's always tons and tons of kefir that's my favorite thing sour cream heavy cream yogurt a couple types of yogurt Oh lots of butter I just don't want to not have butter oh all of that that entire thing that goes all the way to the back of the fridge and that's filled completely with oysters Oh clementines coming come you Clint Clem this is Clementine she's dog number two and she loves to eat anything yeah she's right now she's gonna run away with her leaf now okay all right so here we are in my kitchen and this is a view from kind of the open end down to the kitchen that's a view of my child escaping yeah we're vlogging Leo music everyone hmm you kind of have two counters on either side and where I usually set up on this butcher block I've got natural light from the windows and that's where I take all my reference photos for my cookbook and I can get a nice picture until about 3 o'clock in the afternoon when the light fades and then I can't really get pretty pictures of food anymore all right whoo she's crowded right now I have just like a large amount of rendered fats from different cooking projects and wine which is in high demand right now the other thing that I do in my fridge is I keep my produce separate oh yeah yay veggies on one side we have a lot of mismanagement here and fruit on the other it's packed right now a lot of things are labeled I hope that you can see that and that you know that I'm telling the truth when I tell you guys to label stuff we're going through kimchi like it is going out of style half the freezers taken up right now by a large piece of pork all right already cooked B in stock I have dregs of white wine things that I don't want to go bad and little elements of things that are gonna add flavor to meals little power packs in there this is where I keep all of my spices I don't really alphabetize or anything but I do try to keep the the tops of the lids labeled I have ironically Corona beans didn't know that was gonna happen when I bought those but the real like touched these ingredients every single day I'm going to my stovetop caddy and what I've got on there is olive oil this is my dad's red wine vinegar that he makes in this basement mm-hmm also with my butter dish and a coconut oil I think if you are home and you're cooking a lot figure out what you have figure out what you like to cook with and then maybe feel better about all the ingredients that you have right now to get cooking yo Alex Here I am NOT in the Test Kitchen I don't know anything that's happening in my parents kitchen right now but my parents have a turntable thankfully and I am a big music nerd so this without any further ado is going to be the tour of the tote of records that Alex brought to his parents house okay first up George Harrison a fitting title all things must pass some of the greatest love songs ever in the history of music are on the table next up the Olympians instrumental soul recorded a few years ago really good working from home like this album will get done for you this is productivity Ramsey Lewis mother nature's son this album is just filled with really groovy jazz Beatles covers rock Americana ambient Scandinavian musician a chill electro band this album front to back selects the songs in here are so good it's like awesome very groovy wait there's one other thing one of the other things I brought with me what's like a lot of my bar saude amount of booze here this tote is just filled with wine okay again I love my parents but can't be drinking Pinot Grigio all the time Cheers okay Oh Thing Thing okay in a big deal so this is my kitchen okay this is all I'm gonna show you the frame that you have alright it's the first date okay see how it goes so here's a couple cool things I keep this in the fridge after after opened and this is a little crushed Calabrian chili pepper boom little heat nice it's got this real unique flavor it's fantastic and here it's just a little oh this is nice I just put this kind of this is my pepper and then just use it nice okay it's black pepper pink peppercorns 10% sumac oh it's nice a little salt I got a chicken smoking right now okay cover it in this stuff dried figs let me go put this up I have to mince it up put it into like a vinaigrette drop it into a braise or stew or something chunk it up and do a salad where everyone don't bianco crushed tomatoes is what we used in making perfect pizza and these were the best man and good to have stock up see what else we got where's the spices up here I hate these cabinets oh we got a lot of good stuff in here some fermented powders from previous it's alive videos oh this is good stuff Z and Z guitar Oh a couple bottles a decent vinegar hanging around yeah we got all the stuff I got bananas I got pots and pans like a bread you know stick around maybe if we do this again I'll show you the other wall cuz it's pretty freakin cool - alright bye leave you hanging down that's it yeah hi everyone its Priya I am actually at my parents house in Dallas and I'm gonna show you around their kitchen Wow okay the yogurt is ready is literally perfect timing and in this era of extra caution and social distancing we all have cups with our names on them oh yeah you might have to replace the cups sorry oh we've got I love this thing this is my dad's favorite knife we got this from Alaska it feels that something's very up Brad's alley the spice cabinet anything you could possibly dream of we have and then we have more in the pantry which I'll show you so we've got literally every lentil variety you could imagine we have just like a rainbow of spices we're not gonna run out we actually have two fridges and this has got your basics kombucha my dad's teeny-tiny diet cokes two heads of cauliflower so we can always make aloo Gobi this is probably the most used condiment Maggi tamarind sauce my dad will go out and buy samosas and we will douse them in this tamarind sauce very good I'll show you also have Maggi noodles Wow my dad just confirmed you have the Maggi noodles we have the noodles okay now we're going into our laundry room and this is the second fridge filled with old childhood photos of me Here I am at age 8 the highlight in here is you'll find all of our homemade pickles in Indian cuisine a char or pickle is just a combination of vegetables or fruits spices oils that you let sort of sit down the Sun and get nice and like they just get so delicious and like salty and tangy and this is a caper a char it's really good and these are all old tomato sauce jars and then we've got what's the mother of all in jars oh this is the mother of all a chars my dad says dad do you wanna pull this and hold on let me you guys are all in this shot but tyree here just like on your couch and shop are we doing the bridge no let me fix it in five seconds hi guys we're in my kitchen right now I'm gonna give you a little tool my kitchen as you can see it's a big space this is like my main main part in the kitchen my soul and my other fancy salt modern soul and then I have to wait Mary's one for all my tools and then I have a second one with all my spoons that's my piggy bank and you know my one plant because all my other plants died here is my mother my mother is always here I don't use paper napkins so I have a collection of mismatched fabric napkins and then my fridge are you ready for this there are hot Cholula because you always have to have Cholula on the pot back here I have some bones and I'm gonna make bone broth then I have a butcher's food which are eats meat and rice some tortillas tomatoes I got yesterday I never have tomatoes that's pretty much it I don't have a big fridge and here we have a pantry I didn't really have time to like finish organizing them I know a lot of people are gonna be like this is super organized but for me it's not the way I like it I'm gonna walk inside I have a walk-in pantry there you go you see me it's messy right now please don't hate me yeah avalancha this go to Shang Shu don't be here and then I have some wine my two vacuums yes don't hate me I have two vacuums and then I have one more shelf where I keep things that I really never use can you see it no no comment up bro so yeah that's my pantry oh my god this closed up with this life no no hi everybody my name is Emil stomach I'm here in my home kitchen get you there yeah okay so this is like that where I spend almost all of my time in the kitchen is directly behind me the prep table I love a stainless steel prep table there's nothing like in the world they're so cheap and then being able to like turn around really easily and just get to the sink right here oh these bowls are fun Carla Lally music's sister Nina has a company called Mondays and I bought a bunch of seconds from her this is actually like cool this is like really it's like vintage vermouth it was from the 70s but it stays good what else we got in here oh ha che that I made like a while ago um in December um I think it's still good though i braised some chicken in it the other week turmeric ginger brew thing that's not actually ready to eat Lupita beans actually a little low on produce which I find slightly alarming let's see ooh KitKat's that's fun maybe like an embarrassing amount of vodka in here oh Jesus you know I'm polish drink vodka but I like to be real real cold we have beef kidneys lamb liver some lamb kidneys too this is a soup base for Zurich which is a Polish soup that's made with like sour rye so it's kind of like a sourdough soup and everybody in my house that's been really skeptical about it and I'm gonna make them that soup and they're gonna like it ooh I love this shape Zuka it's like little Pinkins well I forgot about this terrifying thing that you see behind us which is the packaging for a funnel that a friend gave us Pino the sweet nosey I love Pino there's the backyard I don't know if you can see it but it looks pretty bleak right now I swear we're gonna plant a garden or something like that yeah but that's the kitchen setup thanks for tuning in how's my hair thank you okay I think when I kind of moved in here a couple of days ago and thought really long and hard about what things are the essentials that I need to have the first things that came to mind were copious amounts of olive oil lots of citrus so both lemons and limes some kind of vinegar and kosher salt it is not as fleshed out as my home pantry but I'm surviving nonetheless so down here underneath my island the top zone is four snicks Mac's Mary's gone crackers black pepper flavor it's not my favorite flavor but we're not being picky right now have a corn chips which are one of the greatest tortilla chips in the world and the bottom of some corn Chex and then on the other side we've got our grains and legumes long grain white rice some French lentils some lima beans I'm about to start making a ton of smoothies in this house so I just stocked up on cashews walnuts almonds sunflower seeds and pistachios we got some hot sauce and some Worcestershire because we plan on making Miuccia Lotta's this weekend oh and this is the best part at this house it comes with peanuts in the shell for cracking so we've been cracking on those so I have eggs cottage cheese in the back here that would be a margarita that I didn't finish last night that I decided I should probably keep in case I run out of margaritas at any point so that's probably not super tasty anymore oh hold on this closes nugget she's beeping second shelf is kind of dedicated to booze and meat I would say which is maybe a weird choice but I'm kind of into it kielbasa Up We're beeping please hold and then here is the big produce drawer which is kind of stressing me out a little bit right now citrus is one of my desert island ingredients so I have a lot of lemons and limes I also picked up some mangos and Asian pears some more citrus because we're in California Nats citrus season and I'm gonna start ice and that's for making cocktail hey Ben should we go find him what's happening in here we need oz this is very awkward yes somehow we went from an apartment that wasn't big enough to an apartment that was even smaller but here we are honestly I didn't go crazy trying to like clean everything and like make it perfect for you guys cuz lord knows you'll probably just be back in here next week so like this is our like I don't even know what to call this got wine on top and then we've got like other assorted detritus like Marmite I'm sad to say my kids are hooked on got a couple beans I've got big spoons small cone spoons this I'm sad to say is my knife drawer right now you know I've got like knives just kind of stored in here because I'm terrified of the kids kind of being able to get to them if they're anywhere else dermapen I've got my CD NTM eights got my Joyce Chen's got my duct tape what are you gonna do without duct tape you know you can't duck it it isn't that how the saying goes there's Cersei yeah I get it Bulls of fruit kai from Ninjago what's he doing in there I would love to know this is my spice drawer I actually firmly believe in a lot of blends just because space is limited for me I love the blends from New York shook chaat masala all this stuff slaps you know I was thinking about trading this chaotic drawer of doom for this drawer so I could like really free things up for more spices but we just have to keep some dumb stuff in here like the friggin three-hole punch Pokemon card why is that there who freaking knows you want to know why I don't have room for everything this stuff takes up so much room it's unbelievable okay ah damn you alright to the fridge got your cow milk your oat milk got your wine got Lacroix propping up the roast chicken keeping everything at nice tidy angles Oh EA's best chocolate chip cookies able to be baked right from frozen whenever you need but yeah I feel lucky to honestly have a space that's comfortable you know that looks good room for the plants you know it works and yeah we're a little bit extra packed full these days just trying to keep more stuff on hand so I don't have to run out to the supermarket very often but there it is that's the tour hi everyone its Christina I am in my home kitchen and today I'm gonna talk you through my setup at home I've been working on this kitchen island it's just like one of the basic ones from Ikea this is where I keep sort of everything that I would ever need to make 95% of the meals that I cook in my house and my cast-iron skillets measuring cups like more mixing bowls and this is my setup directly to the left of my range a tiny bowl of flaky salts pint container of kosher salt a pepper mill and a squeeze bottle of olive oil and for so many of my meals these are the things that I'm reaching for my spice drawer which is like my pride and joy that was a project I embarked on when I first moved in here well I'm looking at myself with this fridge as the background it's like so depressing I'm only gonna show you my freezer and close it because I don't want to talk about it so I hope you enjoyed that my pantry is in another room off the kitchen which is an extreme luxury there you go it's also where we keep just like pretty much everything in my house it makes me very happy because everything is labeled a container that says Asian noodle but is actually white rice and then above me we have a real embarrassment of riches when it comes to appliances we have like three rice cookers and two pressure cookers and it's just absurd our most important thing in here our wine fridge you know it's pretty full at the moment it's really been getting us through a lot oh yes and this is my mushroom poster it says lay champignon the mushrooms very important okay I've been traveling around Mexico for the last six months and when things started to get a little bit crazy I decided it was time to stop hunker down and start cooking and writing so that's where I am right now I've only been here for five days so things are a little bit not fully stocked but I have chicken stock and I have my favorite beverage in the universe ball Chico I pretty much have it every night I go sit out on the terrace and just have my football Chico in lime this beautiful pineapple let me pull it out it's probably a little past prime but that just means it's really sweet and so what I'm gonna end up doing is I'm gonna make an our fresca I just fell in love with pineapple water so that is what's gonna happen with that and then I have some emergency cookie dough because now is one giant emergency and I'm always in need of cookies I found this and I want to show this to Morocco this is a sizzle tray but it's cast iron which I'm like super excited about so I actually want a grill a steak on this because it's pretty rad my sheet trades this is one of my favorite tools in the kitchen so if I was gonna meet up for recipes at once I'd have four sheet trays everything organized and set to go so I can just start cooking right away and nothing gets mixed up these are some of the really beautiful pottery that I've been collecting throughout Mexico and then I have my baking drawer which is very important to me because I love to bake and more importantly I love to eat cookies and that is pretty much my little Mexican kitchen god this feels like cribs in 1999 or something okay while this isn't my kitchen I have like a pretty good setup I did bring some of my pantry items not as many as I thought I would need mmm salt my see we got some pasta some 10 bug right now I prefer flat some these things are not mine including this including this including that no shame if you're into that it's very hard doing this with the one pan flaky hazelnuts sunflower seeds paprika madness favorite actually his least favorite I don't know what this is Oh almond milk oh I should have used that for my coffee some romaine this parsley that shouldn't be here and the still Titian beard should be here mmm leeks that shouldn't be here either and then when it comes to our freezer a little bit more chaotic basil ceman cinnamon raisin remix definitely not my pick and vodka because well you get it thanks for checking out my kitchen Bon Appetit Bon Appetit Bon Appetit that OhTest Kitchen what now I have to check my parents house in New Jersey this is my kitchen my brand-new kitchen I'm going to show you around you're gonna get to snoop on the phone fell off hold on all right I'm recording let's try that again all right so this is my kitchen I'm gonna take you it's not that big I'm gonna show you starting at one end this just is a place where I keep all my appliances food processor blender and stand mixer and then on the bottom dutch ovens it's just handy to have those things out and then this is a slab that I had cut from a surface that I used when I was shooting the photos for my book and for pastry purposes it's nice to have marble because it's great for rolling out dough so something I'm doing a lot at home and then on this side of the kitchen have cutting board that's all my friends at home they're looking real lively and then this area I like to have the things I use most frequently handy I have to spray bottles one is water because sometimes when you're cooking you want to slow down the cooking process so it's nice to spritz with a little bit of water in oil sprayer non-aerosol coarse sea salt that's this wonderful kind of gray Sicilian salt and this right here is the flaky salt I like to decant stuff into squeeze bottles chili oil black vinegar we eat a lot of frozen dumplings especially lately and this is my oven it's nice and large I love it it's actually very accurate oven bunch of fish spatulas which are maybe one of the most used kitchen tools strainers my good friend Julia the patron saint of home cooks everywhere so I like to keep that photo of Julia Child in the kitchen because just makes me feel good want you to say hi to my cat this is Maya the more skittish less friendly cat but she's actually being very social today in New York one thing I hate is like schlepping big boxes of cans and that kind of things so we have a SodaStream for making seltzer at home so my first time living in New York with a dishwasher it's incredible so so useful and important so that's my home kitchen it's usually in some state of disarray because someone's always cooking something and baking so I'm not looking nice and shiny for you guys we're gonna hopefully in the next coming weeks make a lot of fun stuff here so hi guys we're back in my kitchen in the East Village and I'm going to show you how I like to set myself up so I have a little kitchen but I feel like I've really optimized it I guess we'll start where it's the most ridiculous which is the spice cabinet which is all of this and it it keeps going I like to have my hot stuff so this is chilies different like chili blends like piri piri spice blend like anything that's like kind of spicy goes into the hot stuff over here I've got warm spices cinnamon cardamom nutmeg cloves that kind of stuff up top here that's my aromatic spices area fenugreek Nigella caraway this is funny business msg green mango powder stuff that you know really can't find a home anywhere else um oh and then the top shelf is all dried chillies I wasn't lying when I said I can make moly like right now so all right over here up top that's where I keep all my baking supplies I keep it out of reach because I bake too much so this way I have to like really work for it you know I often climb on stools get up on the counter so it's very dangerous and I'm probably going to die this way the most exciting cabinet right now is the snack cabinet which is abnormally full because you know stress snack eating I have bugles this really pisses everyone at the Test Kitchen off like they really hate this but I freeze my bananas whole I don't know why I probably shouldn't but I don't know I'm in my Britain Anna's get brown and then I panic I'm just gonna sit on the floor with you and show you my fridge okay there is always a lot of dairy in our fridge we're big dairy eaters so there's always tons and tons of kefir that's my favorite thing sour cream heavy cream yogurt a couple types of yogurt Oh lots of butter I just don't want to not have butter oh all of that that entire thing that goes all the way to the back of the fridge and that's filled completely with oysters Oh clementines coming come you Clint Clem this is Clementine she's dog number two and she loves to eat anything yeah she's right now she's gonna run away with her leaf now okay all right so here we are in my kitchen and this is a view from kind of the open end down to the kitchen that's a view of my child escaping yeah we're vlogging Leo music everyone hmm you kind of have two counters on either side and where I usually set up on this butcher block I've got natural light from the windows and that's where I take all my reference photos for my cookbook and I can get a nice picture until about 3 o'clock in the afternoon when the light fades and then I can't really get pretty pictures of food anymore all right whoo she's crowded right now I have just like a large amount of rendered fats from different cooking projects and wine which is in high demand right now the other thing that I do in my fridge is I keep my produce separate oh yeah yay veggies on one side we have a lot of mismanagement here and fruit on the other it's packed right now a lot of things are labeled I hope that you can see that and that you know that I'm telling the truth when I tell you guys to label stuff we're going through kimchi like it is going out of style half the freezers taken up right now by a large piece of pork all right already cooked B in stock I have dregs of white wine things that I don't want to go bad and little elements of things that are gonna add flavor to meals little power packs in there this is where I keep all of my spices I don't really alphabetize or anything but I do try to keep the the tops of the lids labeled I have ironically Corona beans didn't know that was gonna happen when I bought those but the real like touched these ingredients every single day I'm going to my stovetop caddy and what I've got on there is olive oil this is my dad's red wine vinegar that he makes in this basement mm-hmm also with my butter dish and a coconut oil I think if you are home and you're cooking a lot figure out what you have figure out what you like to cook with and then maybe feel better about all the ingredients that you have right now to get cooking yo Alex Here I am NOT in the Test Kitchen I don't know anything that's happening in my parents kitchen right now but my parents have a turntable thankfully and I am a big music nerd so this without any further ado is going to be the tour of the tote of records that Alex brought to his parents house okay first up George Harrison a fitting title all things must pass some of the greatest love songs ever in the history of music are on the table next up the Olympians instrumental soul recorded a few years ago really good working from home like this album will get done for you this is productivity Ramsey Lewis mother nature's son this album is just filled with really groovy jazz Beatles covers rock Americana ambient Scandinavian musician a chill electro band this album front to back selects the songs in here are so good it's like awesome very groovy wait there's one other thing one of the other things I brought with me what's like a lot of my bar saude amount of booze here this tote is just filled with wine okay again I love my parents but can't be drinking Pinot Grigio all the time Cheers okay Oh Thing Thing okay in a big deal so this is my kitchen okay this is all I'm gonna show you the frame that you have alright it's the first date okay see how it goes so here's a couple cool things I keep this in the fridge after after opened and this is a little crushed Calabrian chili pepper boom little heat nice it's got this real unique flavor it's fantastic and here it's just a little oh this is nice I just put this kind of this is my pepper and then just use it nice okay it's black pepper pink peppercorns 10% sumac oh it's nice a little salt I got a chicken smoking right now okay cover it in this stuff dried figs let me go put this up I have to mince it up put it into like a vinaigrette drop it into a braise or stew or something chunk it up and do a salad where everyone don't bianco crushed tomatoes is what we used in making perfect pizza and these were the best man and good to have stock up see what else we got where's the spices up here I hate these cabinets oh we got a lot of good stuff in here some fermented powders from previous it's alive videos oh this is good stuff Z and Z guitar Oh a couple bottles a decent vinegar hanging around yeah we got all the stuff I got bananas I got pots and pans like a bread you know stick around maybe if we do this again I'll show you the other wall cuz it's pretty freakin cool - alright bye leave you hanging down that's it yeah hi everyone its Priya I am actually at my parents house in Dallas and I'm gonna show you around their kitchen Wow okay the yogurt is ready is literally perfect timing and in this era of extra caution and social distancing we all have cups with our names on them oh yeah you might have to replace the cups sorry oh we've got I love this thing this is my dad's favorite knife we got this from Alaska it feels that something's very up Brad's alley the spice cabinet anything you could possibly dream of we have and then we have more in the pantry which I'll show you so we've got literally every lentil variety you could imagine we have just like a rainbow of spices we're not gonna run out we actually have two fridges and this has got your basics kombucha my dad's teeny-tiny diet cokes two heads of cauliflower so we can always make aloo Gobi this is probably the most used condiment Maggi tamarind sauce my dad will go out and buy samosas and we will douse them in this tamarind sauce very good I'll show you also have Maggi noodles Wow my dad just confirmed you have the Maggi noodles we have the noodles okay now we're going into our laundry room and this is the second fridge filled with old childhood photos of me Here I am at age 8 the highlight in here is you'll find all of our homemade pickles in Indian cuisine a char or pickle is just a combination of vegetables or fruits spices oils that you let sort of sit down the Sun and get nice and like they just get so delicious and like salty and tangy and this is a caper a char it's really good and these are all old tomato sauce jars and then we've got what's the mother of all in jars oh this is the mother of all a chars my dad says dad do you wanna pull this and hold on let me you guys are all in this shot but tyree here just like on your couch and shop are we doing the bridge no let me fix it in five seconds hi guys we're in my kitchen right now I'm gonna give you a little tool my kitchen as you can see it's a big space this is like my main main part in the kitchen my soul and my other fancy salt modern soul and then I have to wait Mary's one for all my tools and then I have a second one with all my spoons that's my piggy bank and you know my one plant because all my other plants died here is my mother my mother is always here I don't use paper napkins so I have a collection of mismatched fabric napkins and then my fridge are you ready for this there are hot Cholula because you always have to have Cholula on the pot back here I have some bones and I'm gonna make bone broth then I have a butcher's food which are eats meat and rice some tortillas tomatoes I got yesterday I never have tomatoes that's pretty much it I don't have a big fridge and here we have a pantry I didn't really have time to like finish organizing them I know a lot of people are gonna be like this is super organized but for me it's not the way I like it I'm gonna walk inside I have a walk-in pantry there you go you see me it's messy right now please don't hate me yeah avalancha this go to Shang Shu don't be here and then I have some wine my two vacuums yes don't hate me I have two vacuums and then I have one more shelf where I keep things that I really never use can you see it no no comment up bro so yeah that's my pantry oh my god this closed up with this life no no hi everybody my name is Emil stomach I'm here in my home kitchen get you there yeah okay so this is like that where I spend almost all of my time in the kitchen is directly behind me the prep table I love a stainless steel prep table there's nothing like in the world they're so cheap and then being able to like turn around really easily and just get to the sink right here oh these bowls are fun Carla Lally music's sister Nina has a company called Mondays and I bought a bunch of seconds from her this is actually like cool this is like really it's like vintage vermouth it was from the 70s but it stays good what else we got in here oh ha che that I made like a while ago um in December um I think it's still good though i braised some chicken in it the other week turmeric ginger brew thing that's not actually ready to eat Lupita beans actually a little low on produce which I find slightly alarming let's see ooh KitKat's that's fun maybe like an embarrassing amount of vodka in here oh Jesus you know I'm polish drink vodka but I like to be real real cold we have beef kidneys lamb liver some lamb kidneys too this is a soup base for Zurich which is a Polish soup that's made with like sour rye so it's kind of like a sourdough soup and everybody in my house that's been really skeptical about it and I'm gonna make them that soup and they're gonna like it ooh I love this shape Zuka it's like little Pinkins well I forgot about this terrifying thing that you see behind us which is the packaging for a funnel that a friend gave us Pino the sweet nosey I love Pino there's the backyard I don't know if you can see it but it looks pretty bleak right now I swear we're gonna plant a garden or something like that yeah but that's the kitchen setup thanks for tuning in how's my hair thank you okay I think when I kind of moved in here a couple of days ago and thought really long and hard about what things are the essentials that I need to have the first things that came to mind were copious amounts of olive oil lots of citrus so both lemons and limes some kind of vinegar and kosher salt it is not as fleshed out as my home pantry but I'm surviving nonetheless so down here underneath my island the top zone is four snicks Mac's Mary's gone crackers black pepper flavor it's not my favorite flavor but we're not being picky right now have a corn chips which are one of the greatest tortilla chips in the world and the bottom of some corn Chex and then on the other side we've got our grains and legumes long grain white rice some French lentils some lima beans I'm about to start making a ton of smoothies in this house so I just stocked up on cashews walnuts almonds sunflower seeds and pistachios we got some hot sauce and some Worcestershire because we plan on making Miuccia Lotta's this weekend oh and this is the best part at this house it comes with peanuts in the shell for cracking so we've been cracking on those so I have eggs cottage cheese in the back here that would be a margarita that I didn't finish last night that I decided I should probably keep in case I run out of margaritas at any point so that's probably not super tasty anymore oh hold on this closes nugget she's beeping second shelf is kind of dedicated to booze and meat I would say which is maybe a weird choice but I'm kind of into it kielbasa Up We're beeping please hold and then here is the big produce drawer which is kind of stressing me out a little bit right now citrus is one of my desert island ingredients so I have a lot of lemons and limes I also picked up some mangos and Asian pears some more citrus because we're in California Nats citrus season and I'm gonna start ice and that's for making cocktail hey Ben should we go find him what's happening in here we need oz this is very awkward yes somehow we went from an apartment that wasn't big enough to an apartment that was even smaller but here we are honestly I didn't go crazy trying to like clean everything and like make it perfect for you guys cuz lord knows you'll probably just be back in here next week so like this is our like I don't even know what to call this got wine on top and then we've got like other assorted detritus like Marmite I'm sad to say my kids are hooked on got a couple beans I've got big spoons small cone spoons this I'm sad to say is my knife drawer right now you know I've got like knives just kind of stored in here because I'm terrified of the kids kind of being able to get to them if they're anywhere else dermapen I've got my CD NTM eights got my Joyce Chen's got my duct tape what are you gonna do without duct tape you know you can't duck it it isn't that how the saying goes there's Cersei yeah I get it Bulls of fruit kai from Ninjago what's he doing in there I would love to know this is my spice drawer I actually firmly believe in a lot of blends just because space is limited for me I love the blends from New York shook chaat masala all this stuff slaps you know I was thinking about trading this chaotic drawer of doom for this drawer so I could like really free things up for more spices but we just have to keep some dumb stuff in here like the friggin three-hole punch Pokemon card why is that there who freaking knows you want to know why I don't have room for everything this stuff takes up so much room it's unbelievable okay ah damn you alright to the fridge got your cow milk your oat milk got your wine got Lacroix propping up the roast chicken keeping everything at nice tidy angles Oh EA's best chocolate chip cookies able to be baked right from frozen whenever you need but yeah I feel lucky to honestly have a space that's comfortable you know that looks good room for the plants you know it works and yeah we're a little bit extra packed full these days just trying to keep more stuff on hand so I don't have to run out to the supermarket very often but there it is that's the tour hi everyone its Christina I am in my home kitchen and today I'm gonna talk you through my setup at home I've been working on this kitchen island it's just like one of the basic ones from Ikea this is where I keep sort of everything that I would ever need to make 95% of the meals that I cook in my house and my cast-iron skillets measuring cups like more mixing bowls and this is my setup directly to the left of my range a tiny bowl of flaky salts pint container of kosher salt a pepper mill and a squeeze bottle of olive oil and for so many of my meals these are the things that I'm reaching for my spice drawer which is like my pride and joy that was a project I embarked on when I first moved in here well I'm looking at myself with this fridge as the background it's like so depressing I'm only gonna show you my freezer and close it because I don't want to talk about it so I hope you enjoyed that my pantry is in another room off the kitchen which is an extreme luxury there you go it's also where we keep just like pretty much everything in my house it makes me very happy because everything is labeled a container that says Asian noodle but is actually white rice and then above me we have a real embarrassment of riches when it comes to appliances we have like three rice cookers and two pressure cookers and it's just absurd our most important thing in here our wine fridge you know it's pretty full at the moment it's really been getting us through a lot oh yes and this is my mushroom poster it says lay champignon the mushrooms very important okay I've been traveling around Mexico for the last six months and when things started to get a little bit crazy I decided it was time to stop hunker down and start cooking and writing so that's where I am right now I've only been here for five days so things are a little bit not fully stocked but I have chicken stock and I have my favorite beverage in the universe ball Chico I pretty much have it every night I go sit out on the terrace and just have my football Chico in lime this beautiful pineapple let me pull it out it's probably a little past prime but that just means it's really sweet and so what I'm gonna end up doing is I'm gonna make an our fresca I just fell in love with pineapple water so that is what's gonna happen with that and then I have some emergency cookie dough because now is one giant emergency and I'm always in need of cookies I found this and I want to show this to Morocco this is a sizzle tray but it's cast iron which I'm like super excited about so I actually want a grill a steak on this because it's pretty rad my sheet trades this is one of my favorite tools in the kitchen so if I was gonna meet up for recipes at once I'd have four sheet trays everything organized and set to go so I can just start cooking right away and nothing gets mixed up these are some of the really beautiful pottery that I've been collecting throughout Mexico and then I have my baking drawer which is very important to me because I love to bake and more importantly I love to eat cookies and that is pretty much my little Mexican kitchen god this feels like cribs in 1999 or something okay while this isn't my kitchen I have like a pretty good setup I did bring some of my pantry items not as many as I thought I would need mmm salt my see we got some pasta some 10 bug right now I prefer flat some these things are not mine including this including this including that no shame if you're into that it's very hard doing this with the one pan flaky hazelnuts sunflower seeds paprika madness favorite actually his least favorite I don't know what this is Oh almond milk oh I should have used that for my coffee some romaine this parsley that shouldn't be here and the still Titian beard should be here mmm leeks that shouldn't be here either and then when it comes to our freezer a little bit more chaotic basil ceman cinnamon raisin remix definitely not my pick and vodka because well you get it thanks for checking out my kitchen Bon Appetit Bon Appetit Bon Appetit that Oh\n"