Lesson 1 Tools Flashcards
Individual measuring cup for dry ingredients, glass measuring cup for liquid and measuring spoon for ingredients used in small quantity.
Measuring Cup and Spoon
Used for mixing ingredients. It comes in different sizes. Small, medium, and large
Mixing Bowl
Are used to open food containers
Can Opener
A wooden or plastic board where fruits and vegetables are cut.
Cutting Board
Used when temperatures must be kept below boiling, such as for egg sauces, puddings, and to keep foods warm without overcooking.
Double Boiler
Used to fill jars, made of various sizes of stainless steel, aluminium, or of plastic.
Funnel
Used to grate, shred, slice and separate foods such as carrots, cabbage and cheese.
Graters
Often referred to as cook’s or chef’s knife. Use for peeling and slicing fruits and vegetables.
Kitchen Knives
Used to prepare salad greens, vegetables, and fruits.
Fruit and Salad Knife
Used to level off ingredients when measuring and to spread frostings.
Spatula
Used to section citrus fruits. The blade has a two-sided, serrated edge.
Citrus Knife
Used to core, peel, and section fruits and vegetables. Blades are s concave with hollow ground.
Paring Knife
They are practical for opening food packages, cutting tape or string to package foods or simply to remove labels or tags from items.
Kitchen Shears
A rubber or silicone tools to blend or scrape the food from the bowl; metal, silicone or plastic egg turners or flippers.
Scraper
Solid, slotted, or perforated. Made of stainless steel or plastic, the solid ones are used to spoon liquids over foods and to lift foods, including the liquid out of the pot.
Spoons
Used to measure heat intensity. Different thermometers are used for different purposes in food preparation - for meat, candy or deep-fat frying.
Temperature Scales
Used to scrape vegetables, such as carrots and potatoes and to peel fruits. The best blade that swivels.
Vegetable Peeler
Used for whipping eggs or batter, and for blending gravies, sauces, and soups. The beaters are made of looped steel piano wires which are twisted together to form the handle.
Whisk
It continues to be kitchen essentials because of their usefulness for used for creaming, stirring, and mixing. They should be made of hard wood.
Wooden Spoons
One cannot bake without bakeware. Baking pans like loaf pans, cake pans, pie plates, baking sheets and so on are necessary for baking.
Baking Pan
Are necessary in preventing bacterial infections from foods.
Refrigerator/Freezers
A kitchen appliance used for cooking food.
Range
Used for mixing, creaming, beating and whipping ingredients. The ultimate mixer for anyone who bakes is, of course, a stand
mixer.
Mixers
Are used to chop, blend, mix, whip, puree, grate, and liquefy all kinds of food. A blender is a very useful appliance.
Blenders
