To operate a kitchen efficiently, we need basic cooking utensils, not only to prepare the meal, but also to serve it. And that's where a cooking utensils list comes in handy - so our kitchen can be ready and functional. This gives you a very practical base that you can build on as you develop your gourmet cooking skills and expand your stock of kitchen tools.
Kitchen equipment consists of kitchen utensils and kitchen appliances.
Utensils used for Food Preparation
Grater
Colander
Egg slicer
Can opener
Palette knife
Ladle
Wooden spoon
Salad spoons
Saucepans
Kitchen equipment consists of kitchen utensils and kitchen appliances.
Kitchen Utensils
Kitchen utensils are
instrument, implement, or container used in a kitchen.
They are used for:
Ø Measuring
Ø Cutting
Ø Food
preparation
Ø Mixing
Ø Cooking
Utensils used for Measuring
Kitchen scale
Kitchen device used to measure the weight of ingredients and other food. Kitchen scales are available in balance or spring models. A balance scale will give a more accurate reading than a spring scale. Using a scale will result in a more accurate measurement of the ingredients than by measuring it by volume. Scales are available in manual and digital models. The units used may be grams
A measuring cup or measuring jug is a kitchen utensil used primarily to measure the volume of liquid or bulk solid cooking ingredients such as flour and sugar, especially for volumes from about 50 ml upwards. The cup will usually have a scale marked in cups and fractions of a cup, and often with fluid measure and weight of a selection of dry foodstuffs.
Measuring cups may be made of plastic, glass, or metal. Transparent (or translucent) cups can be read from an external scale; metal ones only from a scale marked on the inside. Smaller measuring spoons lack a scale and are filled and level to maximum capacity. Its mostly used to measure things such as flour, water, or any type of liquid.
Measuring Spoon
A measuring spoon is a spoon used to measure an amount of an ingredient, either liquid or dry, when cooking.Measuring spoons may be made of plastic, metal, and other materials. They are available in many sizes,including teaspoon and tablespoon. In the U.S., a measuring spoon is number of pieces, especially four or six. This usually includes ¼, ½, and 1 teaspoons and 1 tablespoon.
Teaspoon
Used to measure small quantities
Tablespoon
Used to measure small quantities
Utensils used for Cutting
Chopping board
A chopping board is a durable board on which to place material for cutting. The kitchen cutting board is commonly used in preparing food; other types exist for cutting raw materials such as leather or plastic.
Kitchen cutting boards are often made of wood or plastic and come in various widths and sizes. There are also cutting boards made of glass, steel, or marble, which are easier to clean than wooden or plastic ones such as nylon, but tend to damage knives due to their hardness.
Vegetable knife
Used to cut vegetables and fruits. They have a
Cook’s knife
Used to cut meat, fish, chicken and their products.They have a broad stainless steel blade between 15 to 30 cm with a handle made of plastic or wood.
Bread knife
Used for slicing bread without crushing it. They have a thick stainless steel blade between 15 to 25 cm with a handle made of plastic or wood.
Cleavers
The cleaver knife is wide-bladed, thick-spine knife that can be used to cut through meat or poultry bones. The cleaver uses its weight to cut through tough food with a chopping motion. The thick, heavy blade on a cleaver is not meant for slicing, but its width makes it ideal for pulverizing meat, or crushing seeds or garlic.
Tomato Knives
The tomato knife is similar to the bread knife except it is smaller and the serrations are finer. The blade will have a serrated edge for easily cutting through tough skin and a forked tip for picking up slices of food.
Poultry shears
Used for dejointing and cutting uncooked poultry; reinforced with a spring, they have one serrated blade and pointed tips.
Kitchen Scissors
In appearance, kitchen scissors are very much
The two blades are made up of
Utensils used for Food Preparation
Vegetable peeler
Used to remove the outer skin or peel of vegetables
Apple corer
Used to remove the core and pips from apple,
Pizza Cutter
Pizza cutter uses a wheel that rotates in a circle while a person moves the cutter in a direction that they would like to cut the pizza.
Used to grate a variety of foods such as cheese, lemon or orange zest. Several types of graters feature different sizes of grating slots, and can therefore aid in the preparation of a variety of foods. They are commonly used to grate cheese and lemon or orange peel (to create zest), and can also be used to grate other soft foods.
Lemon squeezer
Used to extract juice from lemons or other citrus
Colander
It is a bowl with holes in it used for draining food such
Egg slicer
An egg slicer is a food preparation utensil used to slice peeled, hard-boiled eggs quickly and evenly. An egg slicer consists of a slotted dish for holding the egg and a hinged plate of wires or blades that can be closed to slice.
Used to open metal cans. They are made from
Utensils used for Mixing
Mixing bowl
A large bowl, in which ingredients are mixed for the purpose of preparing food. They can be of plastics, glass or metal.
Palette knife
Palette knife is a kitchen utensil designed especially for the use of spreading a substance onto a flat surface, such as frosting on a cake. It is also an ideal tool for applying spreads onto sandwiches in mass quantities.. They are made with a flexible stainless steel blade and a plastic or wooden handle.
A ladle is a type of serving spoon used for soup, stew, or other foods. Although designs vary, a typical ladle has a long handle terminating in a deep bowl, frequently with the bowl oriented at an angle to the handle to facilitate lifting liquid out of a pot or other vessel and conveying it to a bowl. Some ladles involve a point on the side of the basin to allow for finer stream when pouring the liquid; however, this can create difficulty for left handed users, as it is easier to pour towards one's self. Thus, many of these ladles feature such pinches on both sides.
Used for mixing ingredients for cooking or baking. Before electric mixers became common, wooden spoons were often used to cream together butter and sugar in recipes such as shortbread or Victoria sponge cake. They are made from wood or plastic.
Fork
Used for mixing ingredients. They consist of a handle
Used to serve the various leafy ingredients used to
Utensils used for cooking
A saucepan is any type of pan most commonly used for heating sauces and gravies. Saucepans are also made to cook, saute and reheat various foods such as rice, pasta and potatoes. They can be shallow or deep and come in various sizes and materials.
Egg Poacher
A kitchen tool that enables eggs to be easily cooked when poaching is desired. There are a variety of different utensils for this purpose, such as individual metal cups, groups of connected cups, poaching spoons, microwavable poaching cups, poaching pans with poaching cups, and electric egg poachers.
Frying Pan
A frying pan, frypan, or skillet is a flat-bottomed pan used for frying, searing, and browning foods. It is typically 200 to 300 mm (8 to 12 in) in diameter with relatively low sides that flare outwards, a long handle, and no lid. Larger pans may have a small grab handle opposite the main handle. A pan of similar dimensions, but with vertical sides and often with a lid, is called a sauté pan or sauté. While a sauté pan can be used like a frying pan, it is designed for lower heat cooking methods, namely sautéing.
Pancake Pan
A pan similar to an omelette pan reserved for pancakes and crêpes.
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