The only thing I tend to recommend is getting cups for measuring and doing it american style. I'm in the UK and most people are used to measuring out flour and stuff like that by weight. I have talky kitchen scales, but it's faster to do cups. The only thing is to put your flour in a big jar on the shelf and shake it up before you measure out, as otherwise you can get too much as it compacts down inside the bag. Other than that everything is covered in dots.

Informal survey - how many people here burn their fingers making coffee because they can't be bothered to find the level widget?

I am not much in the kitchen. I really hate the stove that came with this house. It’s one of the flat glass ones with a damn touch screen. I’ll get around to replacing it but haven’t because my wife prefers to cook anyway.

On the other hand I do grill on a regular basis. For that I use an iGrill for temperatures. If I am just grilling in my firebox I only use the meat probe but when smoking meat I can put a grill temp probe in the chamber of my offset. I have started using a charcoal basket in place of the fire grate because it puts a fence around where my fire should be. I can also burn splits in it for smoking. Other than that rubber gloves for food, leather gloves for fire management, and a double spatula.

I don't currently have one because my apartment doesn't really have a particularly good place for one, but I really like cooking on induction cooktops, they're so satisfying because you can't really burn yourself unless you do something dumb.

I use wooden tools because they won't melt or scratch pans, but I primarily use wooden spoon spatula type things and a single chopstick. The chopstick lets me feel with finer detail than the spatula thing, but both work well for feeling around the pan.

I've also got a smart grill I've seen recommended around, the Teefal Optigrill or something like that. It's so useful for countertop cooking.

I also use a regular crockpot fairly often, and I use a keurig, the old style, with a refillable coffee pod thing made out of plastic. It's easy enough to let it dry out then just shake the used grounds out into the trash.

Not really a tool, but I have three seperate containers for silverware, which makes my drawer really easy to find thing in in a second, rather than using the tray kind that tends to feel like one thing, so you end up having to touch the forks to know which is which if you're moving too quickly.

talking cooking thermometer is exactly what I was going to recommend. Making sure your meat is up to temp is essential and even more challenging without sight. The talking is a no-brainer, I have a basic one that beeps when reading temperature, and with another button speaks the number.

Simply put it's a metal disc that you drop in a pot that makes a racket when the water starts to hit a rolling boil.

I use many of the items listed here, with the addition of a boil disc, and a liquid level indicator. I tend to use a hooked finger over the rim to fill glasses, but I use my indicator if pouring hot liquid or a drink for someone else.

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I just use same tools as everyone else. I don't do baking, so measruing cups aren't that important to me, and I just taste as I'm booking, and add as needed.

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Only real thing I do differently due to being blind is I have those bump dots on every spice bottle with a QR code for the pen Friend on top. This lets me go through the spices to figure out which is which. If wanted, details on Pen Finder is at:

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I don't use it myse3lf, but I've heard lots of blind people enjoy the Goerge Foreman Grill as it cookes things on both sides without having to flip it. I love to cook and play around in the kitchen though, so not for me.

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Oh, and on this topic, those Henkel knives are sharp! Sliced a chunk of my finger off about a month ago while chopping veggies. Had to visit the emergency walk-in clinic here, and they cautorized it. Strange thing though, the chunk I sliced off actually gew back basically. I thought I was going to have a deformed finger for the rest of my life, but for some reason it actually gew back. Go figure.

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Oh, and would love a talking termoeter. CNIB doesn't have one though, and they seem to be hard to find. Will look again later.

A good set of digital scales. Depending on your level of sight, you can get scales that display weights in large print or audibly tell you how much an ingredient weighs.

A food processor, maybe? I don't own one myself but I do know that with certain attachments, they can dice/slice food finely which is something that I personally have trouble doing.