Essential Kitchen Accessories

Whether you’re cooking cookies, cakes or muffins, you need the best kitchen equipment possible to get the job done. – Pointy knives that can be quickly and easily pulled out with a knife block or magnetic sheath are going to do the trick!

Also a potato masher and salad tongs are must-haves in any kitchen, as well as a tough pair of kitchen shears for trimming fins to tearing through twine.

Measuring Cups
Cooking ingredients should be accurately measured because they are the most important components when baking, and using the right measuring cups is a useful kitchen essential.

There are two basic kinds of measuring cups — dry and liquid. A liquid measuring cup has a pour spout that is marked out in clear letters to show the volume of water or other liquid substances, and a shallower dry measuring cup is filled to the top and then pushed down when full.

Measurement cups with innovative technology to save time and get the measurements right can be invented such as angle-angled measuring cups that have rings inside so you can read them from eye level or even adjustable measuring cups that can measure ingredients in any direction. Such improvements could also be time and labour-saving in terms of measurement accuracy.

Wooden Spoons
Wooden spoons have been a part of cooking households since times immemorial and your grandma probably had one, too. Cheap, handy and good at stirring things but not quickly transferring heat as a metal one – wooden spoons are especially handy when you’re stirring something delicate like risotto.

There is something natural about wood cookware, and it looks beautiful as well. A must for any utensil jar, they differ from stainless steel and plastic alternatives when it comes to feel. They are hand carved or tooled which makes them special and unique that make your set stand out and make your drawer stand out even more.

Because wooden knives have a porous coating, hand-wash and dry wooden cutlery prior to use. Don’t put them in the dishwasher as they will crack or rot with time. Rub your spoons once a month with high quality mineral oil so they last even longer!

Whisk
Whisks are great kitchen utensils, from whipping together pie filling to heating stock. There is a broad range of styles and types depending on the application – balloon whisks for daily mixing or flat speciality whisks for rouxs and sauces are two examples.

Whisks help whisk dry ingredients for recipes such as baking by adding air so there’s no lumpy mixture. They’re also handy when whippedping egg whites to make souffle or making an emulsion for cannoli sauce.

Cage whisks have an inside wire “cage” in the form of a ball with crimped wires to provide extra strength and are beautiful looking and sturdy. They’re used to whisk liquid into roux with minimum burning; whisk sauces, mother sauces and vinaigrettes; and to clean the sides of pots to keep ingredients from sticking or burning.

Tongs
Tongs are a kitchen necessity because they let cooks grasp, turn and serve without touching their hands – preventing cross-contamination in food preparation areas and they are flexible enough for all cooking conditions. They’re tough and heat-resistant – a must-have for food-processing settings!

Utility tongs are among the most common kitchen tools and they come in different lengths and sizes. There are silicone-lined ends that don’t lick the nonstick cookware more easily, some that are one-handed with gravity locks or have a removable curved head that converts to a spoon for added versatility and versatility.

Salad and pasta tongs are more ornamental than functional — they have intricate handles, are made of special materials or combine style and function. There are models that come with hanging hooks for easy storage, and there are designs that are sleek and make the transition from kitchen to table easy.