Food and Beverage Equipments

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FOOD AND BEVERAGE EQUIPMENT

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

In this lesson we shall discuss about the restaurant operating equipment’s.


After completion of this lesson, you will be able to understand:
1. Food and beverage service equipment’s needed for table setting such as
glassware, chinaware and table ware
2. Furniture, fixtures and linen
3. Safe handling of equipment’s.
4. Preparing the restaurant before, during and after service
5.Mise-en-scene
6.Mise-en-place
7. Rules and points to remember while table laying
8. Styles of service
9. Service techniques.

SERVICE EQUIPMENTS - Cutlery, Crockery, Glassware, Flatware and


Hollowware

1. Cutlery
It is also called as silverware. Silver plating is made from blanks or bodies
of nickel silver or nickel brass alloy. They are immersed in a complex of
silver salts or nickel by means of electrolysis. Silver is transferred to the
blanks and an electroplated product emerges. This process is called EPNS
– Electroplated Nickel Silver
Technically, these include only cutting utensils namely knives: large or joint
or dinner knives, fish knives, side knives, butter knives and small knives.
But nowadays all eating implements are known as cutlery.Flatware
includes spoon and forks.
Name Size/ounces Uses
Marrow Spoon 7 inches Used for taking marrow
Service Spoon 9 inches Used for serving food
Soup Spoon 7 inches Used for having Soup
Dessert Spoon 7 inches Used for having deserts
Tea Spoon 5 inches To stir tea
Coffee Spoon 4 inches To stir Coffee
Mustard Spoon 3 inches Taking mustard from mustard pot
Ice Cream Spoon 5 inches Used for having ice cream
Parfait spoon 7 to 8 inches To have multi-layered ice creams
Service ladle Used for serving foods with high
liquid consistency
Used for serving food
Fish fork 9 inches
Used for having fish
Small fork 7 inches
Dinner fork
Used for having main course
(joint or large) 8 inches
Used for having fruits
Fruit fork 4 inches
Used for having pastry
Pastry fork cum knife 5 inches
Used for having oyster
Oyster fork 5 inches
Used for having snail
Snail fork
Used for having fish
Fish knife 7 inches
Used for having meat
Dinner Knife 9 inches
Used for having desert
Small Knife 7 inches
Used for having steak
Steak knife 8 inches
2. Hollow-ware

Butter dish lid Used for serving butter


EPNS single portion round Used for serving curry for a single person
EPNS double portion round Used for serving curry for two persons
Soup with turn lid Used for serving soup
Ice bucket Used for serving ice cubes
Wine cooler Used for serving cool wine
Cocktail shaker Used for making cocktail
Strainer and drip bowls Used to drain tea leaves
Sauce boat Used for serving sauce
Water jugs Used for serving water

Special Tableware

Asparagus Holder Used to hold asparagus spears when eating


Pastry slice Used to slice the pastry and serve the portion
Corn on the cob holder
Snail tong One to pierce each end of the cob
Snail dish Used to hold the snail shell
Dish is round with two ears, having six indentations to hold a
portion (6) of snails
Lobster pick
To extract the flesh from the claw
Caviar knife
Used to apply caviar on toast
Nut cracker
To crack nuts
Grape scissors
To cut and hold a portion of grapes

3. Crockery

It is made of soda-ash, Silicon and china clay, glaze it give a fine finish.
Chinaware will always be glassing having and being different colours and
designs. It has more resistant to heat than glassware.

How to Handle Chinaware?


1. Breakage rate is high; hence forth it needs careful handling
2. It should be stored on shelves
3. To avoid accidents, it should be stored in a convenient height
4. Always it should be kept covered to avoid dust and germs

Name Size Uses


Dinner Plate (meat, joint) 10” It is used for serving meats
Dessert plate (fish plate, half plate) 8” It is used for the service of fish
and also for hors d’ oeuvres
Used as an underliner. It is also
B&B plate (side plate, cheese plate) 6½“
used for serving cheese
Used for serving thick soup
Soup plate 8¾“
Used for service of tea
Tea Cup 6 oz
Used for service of coffee
Demi tasse cup 3 oz
Used to serve cereals
Nappy Bowl -
Used to serve boiled egg
Egg Cup Holder -
Used to serve consommé soup
Consommé Cup -
Used for service of soups
Soup Bowl 10 oz
Used for serving fruits
Fruit Plate 9“
Used for serving cold salad
Salad plate 600 ml
Used to serve coffee
Coffee Cup 8-10 oz
Used for serving tea
Tea Pot -
Serving coffee
Coffee pot 1-2 pints
Used as a container for sugar
Sugar bowl - cubes
Used by the guest to dispose
cigarette ash and buds
Ash Tray -
Mostly used only to carry tea cup

Saucer 5“
4. Glassware

The raw materials used as a silica and soda-ash. Let is added to make the glass crystal clear;
glasses are measured in terms of capacity.
The restaurant glassware is usually plain. Except in speciality restaurant where it may be
coloured

How to handle glassware?


It should be kept inverted in single rooms in a backward of the shave to slippage
In a restaurant glassware must be transported on a place, with a tray cloth to avoid spillage
Glasses with a stem must be inverted and held by the stem
Service glasses must be cleaned and held against to a light before use for traces of smudges
etc.

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