Chapter 23 Kitchen Utensils and Appliances

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Chapter 23Kitchen Utensils and Appliances

• In this chapter, you will learn about
• Kitchen utensils
• Cookware and bakeware
• Small appliances
• Large appliances

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Kitchen Utensils and Appliances

• Objectives
• Identify basic kitchen utensils and pieces of
  cookware and bakeware and explain their uses.
• Describe the purposes of common kitchen
  appliances.

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Words to Know

• utensil
• spatula
• serrated blade
• tongs
• ladle
• colander
• cookware

• bakeware
• double boiler
• skillet
• appliance
• portable appliance
• major appliance

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Kitchen Utensils

• Utensil a hand-held, hand-powered tool used to
  prepare food.
• What is the most commonly used utensil in your
  kitchen?

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Measuring Utensils

• Spatula a narrow utensil used to level dry
  ingredients in dry measuring cups and measuring
  spoons.

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Measuring Utensils

• Dry measuring cups Used to measure dry
  ingredients such as flour or sugar.

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Measuring Utensils

• Liquid measuring cups

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Measuring Utensils

• measuring spoons used to measure ingredients in
  smaller numbers

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Cutting Utensils

• Serrated blade a blade with a sawtooth edge.

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Cutting Utensils

• Paring knife Used for smaller foods

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Cutting Utensils

• Chefs knife All purpose knife, used for cutting
  or dicing

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Cutting Utensils

• cutting board Surface to cut on

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Cutting Utensils

• peeler

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Cutting Utensils

• kitchen shears

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Cutting Utensils

• can opener

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Cutting Utensils

• grater

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Mixing Utensils

• mixing bowls To combine ingredients

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Mixing Utensils

• large spoons Used to stir

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Mixing Utensils

• rubber spatulas To stir and mix

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Mixing Utensils

• pastry blenders

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Mixing Utensils

• Sifters To take the lumps out of flour

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Mixing Utensils

• Rotary beaters To mix ingredients

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Cooking Utensils

• Tongs used to turn or lift foods.

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Cooking Utensils

• Ladles large, deep spoon used to serve punches,
  soups, and stews.

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Cooking Utensils

• kitchen fork

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Cooking Utensils

• wide spatula or turner

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Other Kitchen Utensils

• Colander a bowl with many holes used for
  draining liquid from foods.

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Other Kitchen Utensils

• strainer and slotted spoon

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Other Kitchen Utensils

• bottle opener

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Other Kitchen Utensils

• Rolling pin used to flatten dough

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Other Kitchen Utensils

• timer

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Other Kitchen Utensils

• thermometer

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Cookware and Bakeware

• Cookware pots and pans used on top of the range
  to cook foods.

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Cookware and Bakeware

• Bakeware items that are used in an oven.

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Cookware and Bakeware

• Double boiler a small pan that fits inside a
  larger pan.

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Cookware and Bakeware

• Skillets pans that have wide bottoms and fairly
  low sides and are used mainly for frying and
  panbroiling foods.

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Discuss

• What is the most commonly used piece of cookware
  in your house?
• From what material is this piece of cookware made?

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Small Appliances

• Appliance a piece of kitchen equipment run by
  gas or electricity.
• Portable appliances small kitchen appliances
  that can be easily moved from one place to
  another.

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Discuss

• List some small appliances you might find in a
  kitchen.
• toasters
• electric skillets
• blenders
• electric mixers

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Large Appliances

• Major appliances the main cooking and food
  storage appliances in the kitchen, as well as
  dishwashers and trash compactors.
• Name the large appliances in your home.
• What appliances do you envision in the kitchen of
  the future?

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Super Sleuth

• Who invented the first usable dishwasher?

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Super Sleuth

• Answer
• Josephine Cochran invented the first usable
  dishwasher in 1886.