Basic Kitchen tools
Kitchen Tools:-
To cook great food you need some basic kitchen tools at your home.
Nowadays, you can find various kitchen tools for different purposes.
Due to the paucity of time, everyone is not comfortable doing things manually.
It takes lots of time in preparation of a particular dish. So, to save time companies have come up with many basic and modern tools.
Be it a beginner or a professional chef, there are hundreds of tools ranging from basic to advanced level of cooking.
One can find these tools made of wood, silver, iron, aluminium, brass, bronze, steel and nylon.
Though you can cook food with any of these materials but the best material for cooking food is steel.
Steel is by far the best material as it preserves food nutrients uoto 60 % to 70%.
These cooking tools are there for many centuries and now they have evolved from manual tools to the more modern – electric ones.
Earlier the tools that people use for cooking were mainly wood, and silver.
People who can’t afford silver, go for wood made tools and those who were rich, they use to cook with silver tools which also shows the sign of prosperity and richness.
In this post, I will list down some basic tools which is a must in any kitchen especially if it come to bachelor’s cooking, you should include these tools in your kitchen.
List of kitchen tools
1.Measuring Spoons:
Measuring spoons are must in any kitchen, since now a days we all cook by taking help of internet, and normally they measure all the ingredients of a recipe in tablespoons (tbsp) and teaspoons (tsp) so it becomes important to include measuring spoons in the kitchen.
Hindi: चम्मच
2.Measuring cups
Like tablespoons and teaspoons, measuring cups are also used to measure recipe ingredients. So one should include right set of measuring cups in their kitchen.
Hindi: कप
3.Spatula
We use Spatula for stirring, flipping and frying food items.
Hindi: पलटा
4.Knife
We use Knife for cutting and chopping. One should have different types of knives.
Variety of knives are available in market that people use as per their requirement.
Hindi: चाकू
5.Strainer
Strainer is an essential tool for filtering food items.
Normally, we use it in tea preparation.
Oe should have different sizes of strainer as per the requirement.
Try to buy metal (steel) strainers as they are sturdy and beneficial for health also.
Hindi: छन्नी या छलनी
6.Tongs
To hold utensils especially hot utensils, tongs are best tool
It is also used to flip chapatis and parathas.
Hindi: चिमटा या पक्कण
7.Laddle
Laddle is used to lift out liquids from a pot. Usually it is used to lift out pulses(dals) and vegetable curries.
Hindi: करछुल या चमचा
8.Whisk
Whisk is used to mix liquids and solids together and to beat liquid foods.
It is used in cake preparation, ghee preparation, beating eggs, etc.
Hindi: मथनी
9.Lemon Squeezer
It is used to squeeze lemon neatly without a fear that lemon seeds will mix to your food.
Hindi: जूसर (बोलचाल भाषा)
10.Gas Lighter
Gas lighter is an easy and safe way to light your gas burner.
Hindi : लाईटर (बोलचाल भाषा)
11.Vegetable chopper
Chopping vegetables is a daunting task for all the beginners.
Vegetable choppers has made life easier for all the bachelors an for the masses who are into cooking.
Hindi: कटर (बोलचाल भाषा)
12.Chopping Board
Those who want to give a professional touch to their kitchen and cooking style, they must go for the vegetable cutting board.
These boards are available in various materials, for e.g these are available in wooden, plastic, metal and glass material.
Hindi: चोपिंग बोर्ड (बोलचाल भाषा)
13.Grater
Graters are used to grate vegetables and paneer mostly.
It is also used to grate other food substance also for e.g. jaggery, nutmeg, dry fruits etc.
These are available in many sizes. One can select according to the requirement.
Hindi: कद्दुकस
I hope this list will help all the bachelor’s who are just trying to set their kitchen or are already into cooking.
In my next blog I will list out some important utensils used for cooking food.
I am open to any suggestion or any inclusion in this list which you all think is must to include then just drop the names, I will do the needful.
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