Kitchen Set Up:

Advanced Tools

Pressure Cooker

Uses:

• Cook food up to three times faster than conventional cooking methods

and save energy while doing it

• Preserves essential vitamins and nutrients in food

What to look for:

• A highly-conductive base material such as aluminum

• Spring-loaded valves

• High and low settings to regulate cooking

Garlic Baker

Uses:

• bake garlic to temper its pungency and bring out its sweet, nutty flavor

Syrup and Honey Dispenser

Uses:

• Dispense syrup, honey, agave nectar, or barley malt without making a

mess

What to look for:

• Glass jar with a metal sliding lid

Salad Spinner

Uses:

• Spin your greens dry after washing

What to look for:

• A well-made model with a brake to stop the spinning action

Glazing Basting Brush

Uses:

• Lightly brush sauce, egg wash, butter, or oil onto food before cooking

or baking

What to look for:

• Heat-resistant silicone bristles and a handle made of wood, plastic, or

metal

Potato Masher

Uses:

• Mash potatoes, squash, and other root vegetables or beans

What to look for:

• Oval or round disc design with grid or holes for the potatoes to pass

through

Non-stick Cooking Utensils

Uses:

• Will not scratch the surface of non-stick cookware

Meat Thermometer

Uses:

• Measure the temperature of meat during cooking

Candy Thermometer

Uses:

• Measure the temperature and stage of cooking a sugar solution

Loaf Baking Pan

Uses:

• Bake bread, meat, vegetable loafs and terrines

Bundt Baking Pan

Uses:

• Bake creative desserts such as bundt cakes (cakes shaped like rings

such as Angel-food cake)

Citrus Reamer or Juicer

Uses:

• Separate the juice from the meat and rind of a fruit

Garlic Press

Uses:

• Crush garlic cloves with ease

What to look for:

• Comfortable grip, sturdy construction, and a non-stick surface

Pepper Mill

Uses:

• Grind fresh pepper onto your food

What to look for:

• A grinding head made of stainless steel, high-carbon steel, or ceramic

Sharpening Steel or Stone

Uses:

• Sharpen your knives (sharp knives are safer to use than dull knives)

What to look for in a honing steel:

• Ceramic, silicone carbide or standard steel covered with industrial diamond dust

• Length of at least 10” long

What to look for in a sharpening stone:

• Length of at least 6” long

Creative Kitchen

Storage

Hooks for Hanging Pots

Lid Rack

Uses:

• Store and organize pot and pan lids in your cabinet or mount to a shelf

or counter.

Knife Magnet

Uses:

• Store and display knives

Kitchen Cart

Uses:

• Add storage and counter space to your kitchen

Grapefruit Spoon

Uses:

• Pointed and serrated tip for scooping grapefruit sections

• Scoop seeds out of other fruits and vegetables such as butternut

squash, pumpkins, melons or papayas

Spice Measuring Spoons

Uses:

• Like standard measuring spoons but long and thin with elongated

handles to fit into narrow spice jars

French Mandolin

Uses:

• Shred cabbage, carrots, and other vegetables for salads and soups

Specialty Vegetable Slicer

Uses:

• Shred, chip, or slice veggies, fruits, and other foods into fun formations

like spaghetti or chips

• Popular tool for preparing raw dishes

Specialty Knives

Santoku Knife

Uses:

• For all-purpose kitchen chopping, slicing and mincing of vegetables and

meats

• Similar to a chef’s knife, but lighter and smaller with straighter edge

Usuba Knife

Uses:

• Thin blade for cutting firm vegetables and other foods with precision

• Also for specialized chopping such as katsuramuki, shaving a vegetable

cylinder into a thin sheet

Fillet Knife

Uses:

• Flexible; used to fillet and prepare fish

Cleaver Knife

Uses:

• Large, usually rectangular heavy blade for splitting or “cleaving” meat

and bone