Kitchen utensils: useful items for kitchens

In the kitchen there are no trifles - here every thing performs its functions, easier way of life and simply decorated with an interior, making it cozier. That is why the cooking utensils so diverse and beloved mistress. Collection of utensils and useful devices are replenished on a regular basis, both in our homes and in new lines of manufacturers. But how to resist the Elijah and not bury the kitchen under an avalanche of the most varied utensils? The answer is to learn to prioritize and choose only what you'll actually use on a regular basis.

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That's really not what not to do, even in the kitchen bachelor's, so it's no pans. Someone gets whole sets, while others cost just a couple-three subjects. One way or another, and this kitchen utensils always comes first. Here are just a few pay attention to the material of its production. But it depends on the functionality of your pots and daily menu.

• Enamelled steel - such pans are suitable for the preparation of soups, viscous cereals, pasta and stewed fruit. But to put out products they can not - Bree.
• Aluminum - heats quickly and is ideal for blitz recipes. This pot can be bought for cooking eggs, pasta, dumplings and porridge, but do not use it for cooking food containing acid (tomatoes, milk, fruit).
• Stainless steel - the most popular today kitchen utensils on the market has earned the title quite universal. If you do not want to buy a lot of different pots, buy a set of stainless steel, and it is better with a thick bottom.
• Iron - these pans also in vogue, although controlled Cast iron cookware pretty hard. Choose a small pan to extinguish vegetables and meat, and do not spare money for a good utensil with a protective coating. You can also rely on the manufacturer's name to purchase for the kitchen really qualitative thing.
• Glass - refractory dishes unpretentious and versatile enough, but the owners of induction cookers will not be able to use it. But for the microwave it is quite good.
• Pottery (pictured below) - the traditional Russian utensils still popular in our kitchens. It is also practical as glassware, but it better preserves the flavor of dishes. Suitable extinguishing and cooking in a microwave oven does not respond to induction heating.

In addition to pots for cooking and may need different accessories: ladle, skimmer, if you often eat dumplings and dumplings, steam grid, potato masher (tolkushkoy), a metal colander.

Sooner or later, these items still appear in your kitchen, so abandon their purchase does not make sense.

Also, you may need a saucepan, if you often cook stew or stew, and a small bucket for the preparation of children's meals or sauces. This is the best set of utensils for cooking. Increase above list is already redundant.

fry

A variety of pans, too, there were many today, but it is necessary to collect a large collection of utensils is in your kitchen? Remember, what dishes you cook often, and determine for themselves a minimum set of tools for cooking. As a rule, it is a deep frying pan to medium-sized cutlets, fried potatoes and meat, as well as smaller dishes - for scrambled eggs, pancakes and soups zazharki.

Other types of pans worth buying only if you'll have to prepare specific dishes at least a couple times a month:

• Grilling - from the usual dishes it features only a ribbed surface, thanks to which there are mouth-watering steaks strips. This dignity grill pan and exhausted.
• Pancake - flat tableware with low sides has a sufficiently large diameter. But if you fry the pancakes on Shrove Tuesday only, shallow pan in your kitchen will stand idle.
• Utyatnitsu - unique utensils. A cross between pots and pans, bake for allowing poultry or big pieces of meat entirely, keeping all the flavor and juices.

But the wok, shown in the photo is not included in the list of optional dishes. This item should buy as soon as possible. It all foods are fried quickly, preserving the maximum flavor and nutrients. It is a pity that not every kitchen there is a place for storage of bulky items.

When selecting pans, preference is given to only thick-walled containers of cast iron, cast aluminum or steel. Non-stick coating is highly desirable - it will prolong the life of utensils and not let spoil the favorite dishes. In order not to scratch the thin protective layer, purchase a special set of vanes of silicone or wood.

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Here no one has the right to specify the owner, what to buy for the kitchen, and without which it is better to do. But try to choose the device that can be used for the preparation of different dishes:

• Pans - deep or shallow, they are suitable not only for baking a dough, but also for roasting meat and vegetable dishes in the oven.
• Silicone molds - sometimes they want to buy all that is in store. But do not get carried away - the oven is not rubber. Limit the set of forms exactly the amount which is enough for two tabs in the oven.
• Rolling Pins - usually it is the most simple wooden kitchen utensils, which have no other use except for rolling out dough. But if you love experimenting with baking, you can look after yourself with a rolling pin embossed silicone surface, leaving on your pechenyushki flowers or funny faces.
• Sieve. Of course, today you can find the perfect meal of the highest quality and finely ground. However, without a subculture on the screen it does not pick up as much air as you need for the most delicate confectionery.

Cut, grind and three

Unlike cooking and frying, such work often has to do with their hands - the very kitchen utensils for you it will not. Therefore, devices for grinding products is best to choose quality and expensive:

• Knives. Good cooks buy them one by one, carefully selecting the length of the blade and handle the balance. But for daily use in the kitchen, you can buy a universal set of at least three subjects. Be sure to pay attention to the name of the manufacturer - than it is known in the culinary world, the better will be the knives. Recognized leaders in this area are the Japanese.
• Grater. Usually, the kitchen lacks a stable float with different blades on each side. Choose the model that has an anti-slip strip at the bottom.
• Frog - many well do without this tool, but it crushes garlic is much faster than even the most experienced chef knife.

Also, you may need a kitchen ax and a hammer for beating the meat. Not to buy two separate object should look universal attachment "2-in-1", as in the photo.

For convenience foods slicing necessarily need a set of cutting boards. Massive kitchen utensils made of wood is suitable for the preparation of meat, as well as become an indispensable assistant, if you are using for capricious Ceramic knives. Vegetables and fruits that provide a lot of juice, it is better to cut on non-absorbent surfaces made of durable plastic, silicone or glass.

A list of all kinds of kitchen utensils very long. Here and various bowls, salad bowls, and many spoons / forks, as well as reprimands, plates, tea sets. The number of these items in the kitchen is determined only by the needs of the hosts in the container.

Be able to stop in time to not buy too much. To do this, try to use the wise advice of the Japanese: if a thing is nowhere to store, so it is not needed. And in your kitchen prevail order.