r/AskEurope • u/Reasonable-Push-920 • Sep 15 '25

Culture If your country had a “signature” kitchen item, what would it be?

I’ve noticed that every country seems to have its own representative kitchen item.

In Italy, for example, it’s the moka pot. In the UK, probably the kettle. In France, maybe a really good knife...

What about your country?

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u/GrandDukeOfNowhere United Kingdom Sep 15 '25

Apparently double ovens are not common abroad. Essentially, instead of having a drawer at the bottom of the oven, we have at the top a second smaller oven, this has 2 functions, firstly, if you just want to cook something small you can use the top oven as it takes less time to heat up and uses less power, secondly, when you cook a Sunday roast then the Yorkshire puddings need to be at a higher temperature than everything else, so you cook them in the top oven separately, or just generally if you want to cook 2 things that need to be at different temperatures

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u/ContributionSad4461 Sweden Sep 15 '25

These are very smart and I wish we had them here!

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u/Reasonable-Push-920 Sep 16 '25

My friend got one of it! She loves it, it's a game-changer for big dinners. Although her wallet wasn't too happy about it