Use of Kitchen Tools,

Equipment, and
Paraphernalia
A. MEASURING TOOLS

 are the tools used to determine the

exact quantities of different
ingredients called for in the recipe

 are used to measure the volume or

weight of ingredients, food
temperature and cooking or
preparation time
• Measuring cup for dry • Measuring cup for
ingredients are nested liquids are standardized
cups that comes with measuring cups
various sizes of different designed for liquid
volumes. measurements.
• Measuring Spoons are • Thermometer is an
used to measure smaller instrument used to
quantities of liquid or measure the temperature
dry ingredients. They of a substance, of a food
are standardized and being cooked, and the
come in different sizes oven used in cooking
• Timer is a device • Weighing scale is a device
used to measure used to measure weight
cooking period quantities of needed
ingredients
B. Cutting tools

• Are metallic implements with sharp

edges. They are used to divide food
into different sizes and shapes by
slicing, carving, chopping, mincing,
and grinding them
• Cutting boards are wooden or
• Dough Cutter is used
plastic boards on which food
or food ingredients are some in cutting yeast
placed for chopping, cutting bread doughs
or slicing
 • Egg Slicer is used in
slicing boiled eggs.

• Food Processor is a multitasking

device used in preparing dips
and spreads, pureeing fruits and
vegetables for soups and sauces,
shredding cheese, grinding meat,
cereals, nuts, etc.
 • Kitchen Knives are tools with
• Graters a device having a
one sharp edge and a pointed
surface covered with holes
end set in a handle used in
edged by slightly raised
different purpose such as
cutting edges, used for
slicing, boning, chopping,
grating cheese and other
dicing, filleting, carving,
foods.
peeling, and turning.
• Kitchen Shears are used in • Peeler is a sharped-edged
trimming of the fins and tail tool used in removing the
of a fish. They can also be skin or outer covering the
used in cutting along the
vegetables, fruits and root
items like sotanghon
noodles. crops.
• Pizza Cutter is a tool used in dividing pizza
into a smaller pieces before serving
C. Mixing Tools and Utensils

• Are used to combine two or more

ingredients by beating, stirring, and
whipping.

• The utensils serves as container for the

food while the tools are used to agitate
the ingredients to distribute or disperse
them evenly.
• Bowl is a round, deep • Blender is an automatic
dish or basin used electrical kitchen tool used
for food or liquid. for mixing, blending and
preparing shakes
•Electric Mixer is an • Pastry blender is a tool used
electrical kitchen to cut in shortening into flour.
equipment used in mixing It is made of steel wires
ingredients by beating, attached to a plastic handle.
stirring ,or whipping.
•Rotary egg beater is a • Utility fork and spoon are
manual tool used in implements used to mix small
beating eggs or cream. quantities or ingredients.
• Wire whisk is used for • Wooden spoon is a big
beating eggs, butter, spoon made of wood used in
creaming fats, and mixing
and cream sugar.
and stirring food.
D. SPECIAL USE TOOLS

Special use tools is designed for a particular

purpose. Most of them are simple and
commonly used. Each tool plays an
important role in preparing food either for
the family or for entrepreneurship.
• Apple Corer is used to • Can opener is used to
remove the innermost open tin cans.
part of an apple
containing its seeds
• Colander is used for • Dipper is a more or less
washing vegetables and deep bowl with a handle
draining rinsed cooked used to transfer liquids from
noodles. one container to another.
• Dredger is used to hold •Egg separator is used to
flour, salt, or pepper separate its yolk from the
mixture used in coating albumen.
fish or poultry while
shaking
• Food tongs are
implements used to
separate items before,
during, and after cooking

•Funnel is a coned- shaped

tool with a tube or pipe at
the end used in pouring
liquids, and granulated
ingredients into a narrow-
mouthed containers.
• Juice Extractor is used • Knife rack is a rack
to squeeze out juice from to hold the knives.
fruits and vegetables
•Knife sharpener is used
to maintain the cutting
condition of the knife.

• Mortar and pestle is a

kitchen device used since
ancient times to prepare
ingredients or substances
by crushing and grinding
them into a fine paste or
powder.
• Rubber Scrapper is a tool used
in scraping food that stick to the
bowl or pan during mixing or
after pouring into the cooking
vessel

• Pastaspoon a type of serving

utensil, commonly made of wood
or stainless steel, which is used to
hold the long spaghetti noodles
enabling them to be easily
removed from a pot of boiling
water
• Spatula is a flexible bladed • Straineris used to remove dirt
tool that is used for various or lumps from dry ingredients.
purpose. Large spatula is It can also combine dry
used to apply icing or ingredients and extract milk
frosting to cakes. from desiccated coconuts.
• Two-tined fork usually •Utility Tray is used in
metal utensil is used to lift assembling ingredients
food to the mouth or to hold during food preparation
ingredients in place while
they are being cut by a knife
Cooking Tools and Equipment

Cooking tools and equipment are

necessary in preparing food using heat.
It make more safe from microorganisms
that may present in raw food materials.
At the same time, cooking makes be
done on top of the range or even in the
kitchen.
A. TOP OF THE RANGE COOKING
• Barbeque grill is a cooking • Basting Spoon is a kitchen tool
equipment used in broiling used to gather and pour back the
fish, meat or vegetables like liquid from the bottom of the pan
corn and sweet potato. over the meat during roasting
• Carajay is a cooking • Casserole are cooking
vessel used purposely in utensils of different sizes
deep- fat frying. used according to food
quantity.
 • Double Boiler a saucepan
with a detachable upper
compartment heated by
boiling water in the lower
one.

• Frying pan is a utensil used

for cooking food in a small
amount of fat.
• Kettle is a metallic • Ladle is a large long-handled
vessel for boiling water. spoon with a cup-shaped
bowl, used for serving soup,
stew, or sauce.
• Pressure cooker is an airtight • Rice Cooker is an
container for cooking food at electric pot designed for
high temperature under high steaming rice.
pressure.
• Saucepan is a utensil •Steamer is a vessel in which
usually with a long handle food is cooked using steam
used for cooking sauces generated by boiling water.
and gravies.
• Turner is a kitchen • Egg poacher a kitchen tool
utensil used for turning that enables eggs to be
food while cooking. easily cooked when
poaching is desired.
• Waffle iron is a utensil, typically
consisting of two shallow metal pans
hinged together, used for baking waffles.
 B. BAKING
• Baking Pans are flat metal • Cake cooler is a wire mesh
molder and containers with rock wherein cakes or
straight sides that are more or cookies are placed to cool.
less one inch deep.
• Cookie sheet a flat • Jelly Roll pan is a one-
metal tray on which inched deep baking pan
cookies are baked. with straight sides for
making the sponge cakes.
• Muffin pan is a baking • Pie pan a shallow metal or
pan formed by glass dish with sloping
connecting cups used sides in which pies are
for muffins or cupcakes baked.
• Ring mold used to produce a ring or ring-
shaped object; specifically a round cake tin
with a hole in the centre, which produces
a ring-shaped cake.
 C. COOKING EQUIPMENT

• Breadtoaster an electrical • Deep Fryer is a utensil

device for making toast. specifically designed for frying
foods in great amount of fat or oil .
• Oven an enclosed • Rotisserie a cooking
compartment, as in a appliance with a rotating
kitchen range, for cooking spit for roasting and
and heating food. barbecuing meat.
• RoastingPan is a piece of cookware used for
roasting meat in an oven, either with or without
vegetables or other ingredients.