Chapter 23 Kitchen Utensils and Appliances

1. Chapter 23Kitchen Utensils and Appliances In this chapter, you will learn about • Kitchen utensils • Cookware and bakeware • Small appliances • Large appliances

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

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

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

7. MeasuringUtensils • Liquid measuring cups

8. MeasuringUtensils • measuring spoons: used to measure ingredients in smaller numbers

9. Cutting Utensils • Serrated blade: a blade with a sawtooth edge.

10. Cutting Utensils • Paring knife: Used for smaller foods

11. Cutting Utensils • Chef’s knife: All purpose knife, used for cutting or dicing

12. Cutting Utensils • cutting board: Surface to cut on

13. Cutting Utensils • peeler

14. Cutting Utensils • kitchen shears

15. Cutting Utensils • can opener

16. Cutting Utensils • grater

17. Mixing Utensils • mixing bowls: To combine ingredients

18. Mixing Utensils • large spoons: Used to stir

19. Mixing Utensils • rubber spatulas: To stir and mix

20. Mixing Utensils • pastry blenders

21. Mixing Utensils • Sifters: To take the lumps out of flour

22. Mixing Utensils • Rotary beaters: To mix ingredients

23. Cooking Utensils • Tongs: used to turn or lift foods.

24. Cooking Utensils • Ladles: large, deep spoon used to serve punches, soups, and stews.

25. Cooking Utensils • kitchen fork

26. Cooking Utensils • wide spatula or turner

27. Other Kitchen Utensils • Colander: a bowl with many holes used for draining liquid from foods.

28. Other Kitchen Utensils • strainer and slotted spoon

29. Other Kitchen Utensils • bottle opener

30. Other Kitchen Utensils • Rolling pin: used to flatten dough

31. Other Kitchen Utensils • timer

32. Other Kitchen Utensils • thermometer

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

34. Cookware and Bakeware • Bakeware:items that are used in an oven.

35. Cookware and Bakeware • Double boiler: a small pan that fits inside a larger pan.

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

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

38. 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.

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

40. 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?

41. Super Sleuth • Who invented the first usable dishwasher?

42. Super Sleuth • Answer: Josephine Cochran invented the first usable dishwasher in 1886.