Tools

When I’m learning something new and looking to veteran practitioners of that field, study, or craft to see how they do things, I almost always find they’re less fixated on gear than newbies and middling-range practitioners.

Instead, they tend to concern themselves with how they use the tools they’ve got, and how they might accomplish what they want to accomplish with what they have at hand.

This isn’t universal, and there are many cases in which a next-step in one’s development as a chef o...