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The Kitchen

Everything here is equipment in daily use, not products pulled off a specifications page. Where something has a real drawback, it is named.

Start with nothing

The honest answer to "what do I need to buy" is nothing. The protocol runs on a pan, a pot, and a knife. Every item below makes something easier or better. None of it decides whether the fortnight works.

If you are going to buy anyway, this order gets the most from the least:

1. Nothing. Cook the food first. See whether the habit holds.
2. A citrus press. Small cost, used daily, and it decides whether you are still squeezing lemons on day four.
3. A steamer basket. Steaming keeps potassium that boiling leaches into water you pour down the drain.
4. Ramekins. Steamed eggs, portioning, breakfast batched for the week.
5. A blender. Does more jobs than anything else on this list.
6. A juicer. The biggest accelerator, and genuinely optional.
7. A distiller. The last upgrade, not the first.

Most people want to start at six. Starting at one is what works.

The guides

• Cold press juicers, masticating against centrifugal and why it matters here
• Hurom H330 review, a year of daily carrot juice
• Blenders, frozen açaí is the hardest job you will give one
• Water distillers, including the mineral question
• Creatine monohydrate, what "pure" means on a label
• Supplements, the whole list is two items
• The air fryer, plain protein without oil, and how it solves eating away from home
• Scales and storage, the small tools that do more work than the machines
• Kitchen essentials, the short version of the above

How these are written

Three to five recommendations per guide, never fifteen. Fifteen means the writer has no opinion and is hoping one of them converts.

No prices anywhere. Amazon prices change constantly and a stale number is worse than none. Where budget matters, it is described in tiers.

Drawbacks are stated. The tall blender container will not fit under most cabinets. The stainless jar means you cannot see the vortex. The distiller takes hours and needs descaling. A guide that mentions none of that is not a guide.