Kitchen Equipment and Recipes: Let's Get Acquainted With Kitchen Utensils
Kitchen Equipment and Recipes: Let's Get Acquainted With Kitchen Utensils
Kitchen Equipment
and Recipes Wash your Safety
First in the
Revised May 2016 by Julie Garden-Robinson, Ph.D., R.D., L.R.D., Food and Nutrition Specialist
hands with
warm water
Reviewed by members of the 4-H Healthy Lifestyles Committee: Macine Lukach and Callie Johnson
and soap. Kitchen
Scrub for at
Learning Objectives: least 20 seconds.
Identify and use kitchen equipment Wear clean clothes and an apron.
Correctly measure liquid and dry ingredients If you have long hair, tie it back so
Know the meaning of creaming, whipping, beating, stirring, folding hair does not get in the food.
Be able to read and follow a simple recipe Be sure your work area is
clean. Use warm, soapy water
and a dishrag to clean up spills. Use
Let’s Get Acquainted With Kitchen Utensils a spray bottle with bleach
A good cook needs good tools. He or she needs to know (1 teaspoon of chlorine bleach per
where to find them in the kitchen. Cooking tools quart of water) to sanitize surfaces.
are called utensils. Let the bleach solution air-dry.
7.
Here are some of the utensils
you will need:
1. paring knife
2. set of nested measuring cups
for dry ingredients
3. rubber scraper
4. mixing spoons
5. glass measuring cup for liquids 1.
(with space above “cup” line) 8. 5.
6. measuring spoons
7. cookie sheet
3.
8. mixing bowls
9. rotary beater 2.
10. spatula
4.
9.
10.
6.
Measuring Activities
We use utensils to measure ingredients. When we measure ingredients, we need to be very exact,
especially when we are baking. Otherwise, our product will not turn out right.
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Can You Answer These Questions?
Why does some flour need to be sifted? Why is a straight-edge utensil necessary Should you use a liquid cup for dry
for leveling when measuring? _________ ingredients and dry cups for liquid
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ingredients? Explain.________________
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How do you measure cold, solid fat? ________________________________
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________________________________ Date completed:________________
Why do you lean down to see how much
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liquid is in a measuring cup? _________
How does measuring brown sugar and ________________________________
white sugar differ? _________________
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