PARTS OF THE KITCHEN 1 Cooking Center 2

PARTS OF THE KITCHEN

1. Cooking Center 2. Cleanup Center 3. Mixing Center 4. Storage Center

FOOD person who HANDLER practically holds food during food marketing, processing and serving

Market Places Convenience 1. stores 2. Public Market 3. Supermarket

Kitchen Tools and Equipment

Tools/Kitchen tools - is an apparatus held in the hand used to accomplish a particular task. Equipments -refers to a set of physical resources used in an operation or activity.

Kitchen Ware A. Hand-held Tools B. Measuring Tools C. Cookware D. Bake Ware E. Large Equipments F. Small Equipments

A. Hand-held Tools Vegetable Peeler -is a kitchen tools purposely used to peel the outer skin of vegetables.

Apple Corer -is a kitchen tools purposely used to remove core of apples, strawberries, pear, and more, taking the seeds with it and leaving the pulp or fruit flesh in one whole peace.

Tomato Corer -is a kitchen tools purposely used to remove vegetable cores, vegetable marking, seeds, and unwanted spots.

Kitchen Shears -are kitchen tools purposely used to snip, trim, cut and divide. It comes with handles than can open battle lids.

Chopping Board -is sometimes called cutting board. It is a kitchen tools that has smooth surface and commonly made of wood but are also available in plastic materials.

Cheese Slicer -is a kitchen tool purposely used to cut slices of cheeses from different variants.

Butter Slicer -is a kitchen tool purposely used to cut butter as a garnish or more.

Egg Slicer -is a kitchen tools purposely used to cute shelled, hard-cooked eggs in quarter or thin wedges with its thin rust-free wires of various design.

Pizza Cutter -is a kitchen tools purposely used cut baked pizza into 6 to 8 serving pieces. It is rolled over the pie crust in a steady straight direction.

Zester -is a kitchen tool purposely used to peel the fresh zest or rind of lemon or lime fruits which contributes distinct aroma and flavor to food, .

Melon Baller -is a kitchen tool purposely used to scoop out smooth balls from pulp or flesh of food items aside from lemon fruits.

Whisk -Is also called a wire whip or wire whisk that has loops of stainless steel wire fastened to a handle purposely used to beat and bleed food items.

Soup Ladle -is a kitchen tool purposely used to scoop cooked foods in liquid forms with specific measure or portion when served.

Turner -is a kitchen tool purposely used to lift and turn food items like pancakes, burger, patties, crepes and more on a hot surface cook evenly.

Spatula -is a kitchen tool purposely used to scrape, cut, flattened food surface, and served of food items. -Rubber spatula -straight stainless spatula

Chef’s Fork or Braising Fork -is a kitchen tool purposely used to lift and turn large cuts of raw meats whiles cooking and hold heavy pieces of cooked meats while carving.

Skimmer -is a kitchen tool characterized by a perforated, rounded, and shallowhead with extended handle used for skimming and removing food items from a liquid.

Tong -is a kitchen tools that holds food items with its two arms hinged together. -Bread tongs -pasta tongs -ice tong

Meat Mallet or Meat Tenderizer -is a kitchen tool that resembles like a hammer but with protruding areas on its surface used in breaking the tough fibers and tenderizes the Meat.

Strainer/Sifter or Siever -is a kitchen tool that has a bowlshaped body made of perforated mesh that ranges from coarse to extra fine lattices purposely used to strain or separate solid food to items from liquid.

Chinois or China Cap -is a kitchen tool that has a coneshaped meshed purposely used for straining sauces and stocks to achieve fine consistency.

Colander -is a kitchen tool that has a thick, perforated bowl used for draining or straining large food items in terms of size amount, and temperature.

Box Grater -is a kitchen tool standing with four sides with special sizes of holes that facilitates varing sizes of grated food items. Food are rubbed against its sides while holding it one hand.

Funnel -is a kitchen tool that has a coneshape head and narrow channel underneath it used to support pouring of liquid from large container into a smaller container.

Pie Divider -is a kitchen tool that has 6 to 8 partitions with the exact measure of sliced pies for individual serving when pressed over a baked pie.

Pastry Brush -is a kitchen tool that resembles an industrial paint-brush but made of food grade materials used to brush egg-wash, butter, or glaze onto dough before, during, or just after baking and brush sauces or marinade onto meat during grilling.

Rolling Pin -is a kitchen tool that is cylindrical in shape with handles on both ends traditionally made of woods used to flatten dough.

Food Molds -are kitchen tool that holds food items in particular shapes.

Vegetable Brush -is a kitchen tool that has food grade bristles used for cleaning dirt off on root crops or tubers.

B. Measuring tools Portion Scale -or weighing scale is a measuring tool that holds food items to get its precise weight.

Electronic Scale or Digital Scale -is a measuring tool that accurately weigh food items digitally displayed, and goes with printed label complete with details.

Liquid Measuring Cup -is a measuring tool that resemble like a pitcher, with handle and spout, usually transparent, and marked with measurements on the side.

Dry Measuring Cups -are measuring tools that resembles like cups with long handles and come in a set. It comes in ¼ cups, 1/3 cups, ½ cup and 1 cup measurements.

Measuring spoons -are measuring tool that resembles like spoons but comes in a set of ¼ teaspoon, ½ teaspoon, 1 teaspoon, and 1 tablespoon measures.

Sauce Pot -is a cookware with similarity to that of the stock pot but much smaller in stature suitable for smaller quantities of food items cooked in liquid.

Double Boiler -is a cookware that has two containers one over the other. The bottom container holds the boiling water while the other container on top holds the food items specially used for melting butter, chocolate bars, cooking gravy, sauces and milk mixtures that are prone to scorching.

Wok -is an oriental cookware that has deep and sloping sides that facilitates ease in tossing and stir-frying.

Skillet -is a cookware with sloping sides and long handle, regularly used for fast cooking of food items over high temperature. It is sometimes referred to as frying pan or carajay.

Roasting Pan -is a cookware that has rectangular shaped container with fitted racks that is used to hold meat and poultry for baking or roasting while letting the fat and juices ooze out straight onto the pan.

D. Bakeware Cookie sheet -is a bakeware that is flat and rectangular in shape with open sides purposely used for baking cookies, biscuits, empanada and the likes.

Baking Sheet -is a bake that is flat and rectangular in shape but with close sides.

Cake Pans -are bakeware container that comes in different shapes and sizes purposely used to contain cake batter in baking.

Mixing bowl -is a deep and slopy bowl that comes in differents volume capacity generally used for mixing, combining, and whipping of ingredients.

Spring Form Pan -is a bakeware that has detachable bottom or sides to facilitate ease of removing delicately prepared or baked food items.

Pie pan -is a bake ware that is round in shape and has slanting sides measure about 9 inches in diameter specially used for baking single crust pies and double crust pies.

Tube Pan -is a bakewae that is rounded pan with sloping sides and funnel-shaped center used to hold cake batter in baking.

E. Large Equipments. Gas Range -is a large equipment that has top counter cooking stove and built-in oven with thermostat and fueled by liquid petroleum gas used for household cooking.

Electric Range -is large equipment that has top counter cooking stove and built-in oven with thermostat and fueled by electricity used for household cooking.

Microwave oven -is large equipment that has builtin fan that distribute the heated air evenly inside the container, thermostat, and timer during cooking.

Refrigerator -is a large equipment that provides cold storage that is generally divided in section such as, freezer, chiller, and crisper, powered by electricity and controlled by thermostat.

F. Small Equipment Blender -is a small equipment that resemble like a pitcher attached to a machine with control panel that determines the degree of consistency of grind, mix, puree and likes through the built-in blades that propel inside it.

Electric Mixer -is a small equipment that has detachable parts of mixing, whipping, and beating food item.

Toaster - is a small equipment that has transparent door, wire rack, timer thermostat and removable shallow baking pan used to toast, broil and bake food items as well.

Electric Skillet - is a small equipment that performs the capability of a frying pan, powered by electricity.

Rice Cooker -is an electric appliances that cooks large amount of rice and streams vegetable.