preparation tools
cutting board spatula tongs
used during food preparation or
service to protect countertops tongs have many purposes.
spatula is another essential tool
and other surfaces from Specifically, you can use them
you need. It helps you flip,
damage while slicing food items. for frying, flipping, and serving
spread, and scrape food..
They also prevent cross- food.
contamination in the kitchen
Nonstick Skillet whisk sheet pan
a flat-bottomed pan that serves
whisk is a cooking utensil which
many purposes, including used for baking pastries such as
can be used to blend
searing, frying, baking and bread rolls, cookies, sheet cakes,
ingredients smooth or to
browning. Its nonstick surface Swiss rolls, and pizzas. These
incorporate air into a mixture, in
makes it easy to mix ingredients pans, like all bakeware, can be
a process known as whisking or
without them burning or over- made of a variety of materials..
whipping.
cooking upon contact.
measuring tools
Dry measuring cups liquid measuring cup measuring spoon
Used to measure small
Used for measuring dry Used to measure liquid amounts of dry and liquid
ingredients like flour, rice ingredients. There are
ingredients like water, milk,
and sugar. Standard sizes teaspoons (TSP) and
and oil.
tablespoons (TBSP) –
are ¼ cup, ⅓ cup, ½ cup,
remember that
and 1 cup.
tablespoons are bigger
than teaspoons!
weighing scale meat thermometer timers
used to measure the weight of an appliance for keeping
to check whether meat has
goods, such as bulk items and raw
reached a safe minimum track of cooking over an
materials. They can also be used to
monitor product inventory or internal temperature that is extended period of time,
production levels. In medical hot enough to kill harmful allowing you to walk away
settings, weighing scales are most germs that cause food from the stove and tend to
often used to weigh patients, as well poisoning. Some meats also
other tasks.
as to measure medications need rest time after cooking
cutting tools
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kitchen shears knife chefs knife
Common uses for a chef's knife
Used for everything from A knife is a tool or weapon include cutting meat, dicing
vegetables, slicing herbs, and
chopping fresh herbs and with a cutting edge or chopping nuts. The flat side of the
vegetables to slicing dried blade, usually attached to knife can even be used to crush
fruit and even meat, a handle or hilt garlic. The versatility of this multi-
purpose knife makes it a must-have
in any kitchen.
grater can opener peeler
A grater, also known as a Removes the outer layer of
A can opener or tin opener
shredder, is a kitchen foods such as the skins on
is a mechanical device
utensil used to grate foods potatoes and apples.
used to open metal tin
into fine pieces Peelers can come in many
cans.
different shapes and sizes.