Kitchen Equipments

Submitted By: Vidya Anant

What are Kitchen Equipments?

Kitchen equipments refer to the large utensils or medium with the help of which we are able to cook. For example ovens, Pressure cookers, induction cook tops, peelers, knives, frying pans, saucepans, stock pots, mixing bowls, etc.

Here are some of the most important equipments used in the kitchen for cooking.

Some Kitchen Equipments

Baking and Roasting Cookie Sheets: Use to

warm up appetizers before serving. Useful for baking green or red peppers. Some non-stick ones also have air insulation between the two aluminum layers to promote even baking.

Muffin pans: The mini ones take more effort to clean. Non-stick ones make the most sense, but the surface could wear out with use. There are now silicone muffin pans.

Roasting pan with Rack: Also called a French Roaster. You need something to put a roast in the oven. You can’t slow cook everything, and some like a leg of lamb won’t fit in the slow cooker. 

Basting and MarinatingBaster: A baster is a tube

attached to a rubber bulb used to suck up and squirt cooking liquid from a pan onto roasting meat or poultry, thus moistening it.

Marinator: This is a poor man’s version. By creating a vacuum you can marinate food in minutes instead of hours or days. Some people don’t like the bowl design with a hump in the middle.

Blenders Counter top Blender:

For frozen desserts, sauces, and small quantities of flour from nuts. Wide jars are better for chunky things.

Hand Blender: Also called immersion blender or stick blender. This is less to clean than a food processor. They are great not only for mayo and dressings, but good for making almond milk, fruit shakes, thickening soups and sauces right in the pan by pureeing vegetables.

Cleaning

Bamboo pot scrapper: This bamboo pot scraper gets the stuck-on-food off without scratching your cookware. Hand shaped, finished and burnished. Each corner has a different radius to find the best fit into the pot corner.

Bottle Brush: People love using the pictured best selling Oxo for drinking glasses and water bottles with wide openings.

Counter top Ovens Toaster Ovens: Toaster

ovens are small electric ovens with a front door, wire rack and removable baking pan. To toast bread with a toaster oven, slices of bread are placed horizontally on the rack. When the toast is done, the toaster turns off, but in most cases the door must be opened manually. 

Electric skillet: The thermostat allows for long unattended cooking. Good for chicken dishes, roasting, frying, grilling, and making casseroles.

Induction Cook top: They have superb low heat control. They save a lot of gas though not much of electricity.

Deep Fat Fryer: A way to cook a piece of chicken, or frying French fries.

Cookware Mixing Bowls:  Used for

salad dressings, marinades, egg beating, meat prep, and nut flour confections. They are often sold in sets. They are made in a variety of materials: Melamine, silicone, stainless steel, clear glass, opaque glass, ceramics, copper, and wood. Ceramic is best for bread dough. 

Sticky Bowl Gripper: Designed to grip mixing bowls securely down to a flat surface. No sliding. It frees up the arm that normally has to hold the bowl. Works on any smooth surface.

Saucepan: A saucepan is a simple cooking vessel with a single long straight handle. It is intended primarily for surface cooking of liquids. They come in a variety of materials. 

Stock Pot: A stockpot will have two handles. A stock pot is used to prepare stocks like brown or white stock by using mirepoix or some meat like chicken.

Mandolines and Slicing Food Processor:

They are good for all usual vegetable preparation. They can replace the mandoline, the mortar and pestle, and the grater. This is a must if you make stir-fries often.

Food Chopper:  They accomplish a food processor’s principal function without having to haul out the big machine.  It has Hi/Low Pulse controls for coarse chopping or fine mincing;

Measuring Kitchen Scale: is

a measuring instrument for determining the weight or mass of an object. In the kitchen it is used to weigh the quantity of ingredients.

Measuring Cup: A 'measuring cup' 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. 

Measuring Cups: They are of different shapes and quantities as shown in the picture used to measure ingredients properly for a dish.

Measuring Spoons: Like measuring cups there are spoons of different quantities used for measuring ingredients properly.

Meat Prepping Meat Grinder: A meat

grinder or meat mincer is a kitchen appliance for fine chopping ('mincing') of, or mixing of raw or cooked meat, fish, vegetables or similar food. It replaces tools like the mincing knife.

Meat Tenderizer: Hammer type ,We can take a piece of meat and turn it into a thin cutlet. Or pound chicken breasts to a uniform thickness .The end with points helps tenderize steak by breaking up some of the muscle fibers, which also allows our marinade to permeate. 

PeelersPeeler: Useful for

slicing hard root vegetables, e.g. carrots, for salads. A wide slot gets better slices.

Zester: A zester (also, citrus zester or lemon zester) is a kitchen utensil for obtaining zest from lemons and other citrus fruit. 

Grinding Nuts and SpicesMortar & Pestle: Good for

herbs and spices. Marble is very hard and a favorite for all around use. It has medium resistance to the absorption of odors and moisture, depending, to a great extent, on the density of the stone used to fashion it.  It is hard, and good for larger and harder ingredients. Wood is best when used with the same flavored food, since it does absorb. Using it with moist food is not recommended.

SafetyFire Extinguisher: Used

for extinguishing in case of fire. A must have safety equipment in a place like kitchen.

Floor Mats: Standing on a hard floor can be tiring. The most resilient floor for a kitchen is a cork floor. But they are hard to clean.  To provide some cushioning one requires cotton rugs in the places where you stand.