This document provides an overview of common kitchen tools and equipment. It describes various types of knives, measuring tools, strainers, cookware, and other utensils. Knife sets typically include chef's knives, paring knives, boning knives, cleavers, and bread knives. Measuring tools include scales, thermometers, measuring cups and spoons. Strainers include colanders, sieves, and cheesecloth. Cookware includes pots, pans, roasting pans, baking sheets and more. Other tools are peelers, spatulas, whisks, can openers and serving utensils. Major kitchen appliances are refrigerators, ovens, stoves, blenders and mixers.

1. Kitchen Tools and
Equipment

2. Content
•Knife Sets
•Measuring Tools
•Strainers
•Cookware
•Other Kitchen Tools
•Kitchen Equipment

4. Knife Set
• Chef’s Knife- is an all-purpose knife used for chopping,
slicing and mincing.
• Paring Knife-is used for peeling and paring fruits and
vegetables

5. Knife Set
• Tourné Knife- is used for fruits and vegetables; similar
to paring knife
• Boning/Filleting Knife-is used to separate meat from
bone;use to fillet fish

6. Knife Set
• Cleaver- is somewhat heavy and has rectangular shape.
It used to cut meat.
• Meat Slicer- used to slice roasted meats, ham, and
thick solid cuts of meat

7. Knife Set
• Bread Knife – used to slice or divide breads and
pastries
• Dinner Knife – knife used during meal;

9. Measuring Tools
• Mass Scale – use to measure the mass of an ingredient;
can be operated manually or digitally

10. Measuring Tools
• Instant-read Thermometer - is used to measure the
temperature of food to know if it has been cooked
properly or being stored at the right temperature

11. Measuring Tools
• Measuring Cups – use to measure wet and dry
ingredients

12. Measuring Tools
• Measuring Spoons - are used to hold specific amounts
of dry and wet ingredients; varying in sizes from a dash
to 1 tablespoon or 15ml

14. Strainers
• Strainer– is used to separate liquid from solid
ingredients, sift fine grains, remove lumps, and rinse
food

15. Strainers
• Colander– a bowl-shaped strainer with holes. It used to
drain food such as pasta

16. Strainers
• Drum Sieve or Tamis – it is shaped somewhat like a
snare drum, with a low-walled cylindrical frame, made of
metal or wood that supports a disc of fine metal, nylon
or cheesecloth mesh.

17. Strainers
• Cheesecloth– is loosely woven gauze-like cotton cloth
used primarily in cheese making. It is used as straining
cloth.

18. Strainers
• Chinois (shin-wahs)– conical sieve with an extremely
fine mesh. It is usually used to strain custards, purees,
soups, and sauces, making them very smooth; used
also for sifting powdered sugar.

19. Strainers
• Food Mill – it is used to grind, mash, puree, and sieve
soft food.

21. Cookwares
• Stockpot– is a cylindrical,
deep, heavy-bottomed,
straight-sided pot for
preparing, cooking, and
storing stocks, soups, and
stews.

22. Cookwares
• Saucepan – it is a medium-deep pot with a flat
bottom, commonly used to make sauces and gravies.

23. Cookwares
• Casserole – it’s an oval, four-sided or round dish or
pan made of stainless steel, ceramic, or glass where
food may be cooked and served.

24. Cookwares
• Roasting Pan – it is a large rectangular pan, often with
a lid and a meat rack. It’s used to roast meat and fish.

25. Cookwares
• Nonstick Pan – is coated with materials that prevent
food from sticking to the surface while cooking or
frying.

26. Cookwares
• Baking Sheet – is a rectangular shape shallow metal
pan used to bake bread and pastries.

27. Cookwares
• Cake Pan – is a metal or glass(heat-proof) pan usually
of different sizes, shapes, and designs used to bake
cakes.

28. Cookwares
• Cast-iron Skillet – is a heavy, thick-bottomed frying
pan used when steady and even heat is needed in
cooking.

29. Cookwares
• Wok or Carajay – is often for stir-frying, steaming, pan
frying, deep frying, boiling, making soup, smoking and
roasting nuts.

30. Cooking Utensils
that every Kitchen
Needs

31. Kitchen Tools
• Baster – is used to moisten the
surface of meat with pan
drippings, sauces, or butter.
• Bottle & Can Opener – used to
open a food tin, preferably with a
smooth operation, and
comfortably grip and turning
knob.

32. Kitchen Tools
• Cutting or Chopping Board – is a durable board on
which food may be cut and chopped.

33. Kitchen Tools
• Dredger/Shaker – is a container with holes that is used
to hold herbs, salt, pepper and other same ingredients
that are sprinkled on foods that are being prepared.

34. Kitchen Tools
• Emery Boards and Sharpening
Steel – used to sharpen knives
• Flipper – is used to flip or turn
and lift pancakes, fillets, patties,
and other kinds of food while
frying and grilling.

35. Kitchen Tools
• Funnels – is used to pour without
spillage liquid or small-grained
ingredients into containers with
small openings.
• Garlic Press – is used to crash
garlic cloves efficiently by forcing
them through a grid of small holes.

36. Kitchen Tools
• Grater – is used to grate, shred, and slice food such as
carrots, cabbage, and cheese.

37. Kitchen Tools
• Handy Poultry and Roasting Tools make easier it easier
to lift a hot roasted poultry form the roaster to the
serving platter, without it falling apart.

38. Kitchen Tools
• Kitchen Shears – are used for
cutting , snipping, and cracking
nuts.
• Pasta Spoon or Server– used
to transfer a little or much
cooked pasta to a
plate/container without a
mess.

39. Kitchen Tools
• Soup Ladle – a ladle for serving soup

40. Kitchen Tools
• Potato Masher – is used for
mashing cooked potatoes,
turnips, carrots or other soft
cooked vegetables
• Peeler – used to peel off or
remove skin of fruits and
vegetables

41. Kitchen Tools
• Scraper - used to blend or scrape
food from the bowl or pan
• Spatula – is a broad, flat, flexible
scraper with unsharpened edges
used for spreading and smoothing
icings on cakes, mixing ingredients,
lifting and flipping and scraping
bowls.

42. Kitchen Tools
• Tongs – are used to lift, turn,
and transfer food
• Two-tine Fork – used to hold
meats while slicing, and to
turn solid pieces of meat
while browning.

43. Kitchen Tools
• Whisk or Wire Whip – consists of loops of stainless
steel wire fastened to a handle. It used to beat, fold,
blend, and whip ingredients.

45. Kitchen Equipment
• Refrigerator/Freezer/chiller –
are used to keep food fresh,
prevent food spoilage, and
inhibit the growth of bacteria.

46. Kitchen Equipment
• Oven – is a thermally insulated
chamber used for baking and
cooking. It can be electric oven,
gas oven, or a microwave oven.

47. Kitchen Equipment
• Stove – stoves rely on the application of direct heat
for the cooking process.

48. Kitchen Equipment
• Range – refers to the
combination of
stovetop and oven into
one kitchen equipment

49. Kitchen Equipment
• Steamer – generally used for
steaming food like siopao,
siomai, and fish.
• Turbo Broiler – used for broiling
and roasting.

50. Kitchen Equipment
• Blender – used to grate, grind,
stir, blend, mix, whip puree and
liquefy different kinds of food.
• Mixer– used for beating, folding,
and whipping ingredients.