"A kitchen utensil is a small hand-held tool used for food preparation."
Kitchen tools used for preparing and serving food, including spatulas, spoons, tongs, and ladles.
Cookware: Includes pots, pans, and sauté pans used for braising, baking, frying, and sautéing food items.
Bakeware: Refers to the equipment used for baking or roasting food items in the oven, such as baking trays, cake tins, muffin trays, and cookie sheets.
Cutlery: Refers to the tools used for cutting and slicing food items, such as knives, shears, and scissors.
Kitchen Gadgets: Refers to various tools used for specific purposes, such as peelers, graters, mandolins, garlic presses, and can openers.
Mixing Bowls: Refers to the bowls used for prepping ingredients or mixing ingredients for baking, such as stainless steel or glass bowls.
Measuring Utensils: Refers to the tools used to measure quantities of ingredients, such as measuring cups, measuring spoons, and kitchen scales.
Small Appliances: Refers to the electric devices used in the kitchen, such as toasters, blenders, food processors, and coffee makers.
Specialty Utensils: Refers to tools used for specific purposes, such as wine openers, cheese graters, and egg slicers.
Cutting Boards: Refers to the board used for cutting and chopping various food items, such as plastic, wood, and bamboo cutting boards.
Utensil storage: Includes organizing and storing the kitchen tools and equipment for ease of access and maintenance.
Knives: Sharp, pointed blades used to cut, chop, and slice various ingredients and foods.
Cutting Boards: Flat surfaces where you can cut and chop food without damaging your countertop.
Graters: Used to shred cheese or shred vegetables into smaller pieces.
Peelers: Used to remove the outer layer of vegetables and fruits.
Strainers and Colanders: Used to strain and drain food after cooking.
Spatulas: Flexible tools used to flip foods or scrape the last bits out of a jar.
Ladles: Deep scoops used to serve soup, stew, or broth.
Tongs: Long, pincers-like utensils used for flipping, turning, or grabbing food from a distance.
Whisks: Used to blend and mix ingredients thoroughly, generally eggs or cream.
Mixing Bowls: Large bowls for mixing, whisking, and blending various ingredients.
Measuring Cups and Spoons: Measuring tools used to ensure accurate measurements of ingredients.
Baking Pans: Flat-bottomed pans designed for baking a variety of baked goods.
Rolling Pins: Used to flatten dough or pastry.
Pastry Bags and Tips: Used for decorating and filling pastries and cakes with frosting.
Cookie Cutters: Tools used to cut shapes out of cookie dough.
Can Openers: Used to open canned goods.
Garlic Presses: Utensils used to crush garlic cloves.
Food Processors: Kitchen appliances used to mix, grind, and puree ingredients.
Meat Tenderizers: Used to tenderize meat before cooking.
Thermometers: Used to measure cooking temperatures to prevent under or overcooking.
Mortars and Pestles: Used to crush and grind spices, herbs or nuts.
Slow Cookers: Convenient appliances used for preparing slow-cooked meals.
"Common kitchen tasks include cutting food items to size, heating food on an open fire or on a stove, baking, grinding, mixing, blending, and measuring."
"Yes, different utensils are made for each task."
"A general purpose utensil such as a chef's knife may be used for a variety of foods."
"Yes, other kitchen utensils are highly specialized and may be used only in connection with the preparation of a particular type of food."
"Some specialized utensils are used when an operation is to be repeated many times or when the cook has limited dexterity or mobility."
"Yes, the number of utensils in a household kitchen varies with time and the style of cooking."
"Utensils may be categorized by use with terms derived from the word 'ware': kitchenware, ovenware and bakeware, cookware, and so forth."
"Eating utensils are tools used for eating, and some utensils are both kitchen utensils and eating utensils."
"Cutlery (i.e., knives and other cutting implements) can be used for both food preparation in a kitchen and as eating utensils when dining."
"Earthenware, silverware, and glassware are examples of utensils made of specific materials."
"These latter categorizations include utensils—made of glass, silver, clay, and so forth—that are not necessarily kitchen utensils."
"An egg separator or an apple corer are examples of specialized kitchen utensils."
"Some specialized utensils are used when an operation is to be repeated many times or when the cook has limited dexterity or mobility."
"A general purpose utensil such as a chef's knife may be used for a variety of foods."
"Some utensils are highly specialized and may be used only in connection with the preparation of a particular type of food."
"The number of utensils in a household kitchen varies with time and the style of cooking."
"Cutlery (i.e., knives and other cutting implements) can be used for both food preparation in a kitchen and as eating utensils when dining."
"Utensils made of glass, silver, clay, and so forth can be categorized as not necessarily kitchen utensils."
"Some specialized utensils are used when the cook has limited dexterity or mobility."