Looking forward to it! Nice work!

Unless you're doing a lot of something specialized like baking or meat cutting or fancy tournee cut vegetables, yes a good chef knife and paring knife are all you'll really use and need. The Victorinox chef knife is cheap, durable, and light and generally good quality, at least back when I was a cook.

Not really, it is quite concentrated though. I like to add a bit of water for a makeshift americano. Gives me the caffeine jitters.

Probably also heats the house well. Which can be a plus in some rental arrangements lol

Used to have some cooking clogs that worked well for standing all day. Some good quality solid heal dress shoes were actually quite comfortable for me as well.

Quite happy with my oxo good grip creamer.