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28 of the Best Food Prep Kitchen Tools & Essentials like Chef’s Knife, Cutting Board, and more

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Every household needs to boost their kitchen with updated kitchen tools & essentials. Some households desire to replace or update their kitchen with new tools, while others do not put the effort due to a lack of curiosity or time. In either case, all households may require comprehensive research from both digital and physical markets to prepare a kitchen essentials list for buying, which is a time-consuming process.

Although numerous kitchen essentials are required to keep the kitchen running smoothly, such as Food Prep Tools, Cookware & Bakeware, Cooking Tools, Tableware, Food Storage, and Kitchen Appliances, etc., I have focused on Food Prep Tools in this article because they are the first necessity of kitchen in the cooking process.

Food Prep Tools: Kitchen Essentials

The tools that we use to prepare foodstuffs by slicing, grinding and mixing foods (eg vegetables, fruits, etc.) before cooking are referred to as “food prep kitchen tools & essentials”. To create the highest-quality kitchen essentials list for food prep, I conducted thorough research and covered all of the required food prep kitchen essentials, which I have detailed below with photos, specifications, qualities, rating and customer reviews.

28 of the Best Kitchen Tools & Essentials for Food Prep

Cutting Board | Chef’s Knife (2) | Paring Knife | Bread Knife | Honing Rod | Knife Sharpener | Vegetable Peeler | Grater | Kitchen Shears | Citrus Presser | Garlic Presser | Potato Masher | Whisk | Measuring Cups & Spoons | Mixing Bowls | Colander | Salad Spinner | Mortar and Pestle | Pepper Grinder | Rolling Pin & Chakla | Tea Strainer | Ice Cream Scoop | Pizza Cutter | Basting Brush | Funnel | Oil & Vinegar Dispenser set | Can Opener

Cutting Board

It is one of the food prep kitchen tools & essentials which we use to chop/cut vegetables, fruits and non-veg items. Different homemakers have a different choice in choosing chopping board. For instance, some prefer wooden board, while other like using hard-plastic or stainless steel board.

Chef’s Knife (2)

It is a master kitchen tool that is extensively used in both home and commercial kitchens for cutting vegetables, fruits, meats and chicken. Because of being a professional tool, its quality should be favourable for easy operation. So, I chose two types of chef’s knives to meet the requirement for cutting stuff.

Chef’s Knife (For Vegetable Chopping)

Chef’s Knife (For Meat/Chicken Chopping)

Paring Knife

It is commonly used in both home and commercial kitchens for cutting vegetables and fruits. Apart from this, it is also capable of mincing, peeling and paring the same.

Bread Knife

It is a decent kitchen tool that is used for slicing bread, cakes, and pastries etc.

Honing Rod

The purpose of this steel rod is to sharpen the knife’s blades such as standard and serrated blades. Because after a period of time, the blade of the knife gets blunt due to its regular function. So we can use this kitchen tool to restore the efficiency of the knife’s blade.

Knife Sharpener

You can also use this type of knife sharpener to sharpen all types of kitchen knife blades. However, Its sharpening method differs from that of a honing rod.

Vegetable Peeler

Without this kitchen tool, it may be difficult for households to prepare vegetables for salad as well as cooking. That’s why, its availability is essential for all households to get ease and speed for peeling the vegetables & fruits.

Grater

It’s a great kitchen tool for grating and slicing cheese and vegetables like cucumber, cabbage, carrot, ginger, and radish.

Kitchen Shears/Scissor

It is a very useful kitchen tool for cutting vegetable herbs and more, such as green chilli, green coriander and Green Mint etc.

Citrus Presser

We use this kitchen tool for squeezing citrus, lemons and more in order to make homemade juice. It is a very useful and handy item.

Garlic Presser

It’s a kitchen tool that minces garlic cloves and ginger in a matter of seconds as well as gives us uniformly minced garlic and ginger.

Potato Masher

It’s widely used in kitchen to mash boiled vegetables as it ensures an even and convenient mash.

Whisk

It’s great kitchen tool for whisking eggs, mixing ingredients, and getting rid of air from mixtures.

Measuring Cups & Spoons

Each and every households want to maintain or enhance the quality of their cooking by taking accurate quantities of respective food grains such as flour, pulses, rice, oil, spices, and others. For this, measuring cups & spoons are necessary kitchen tools for the measurement of all food grains.

Mixing/Serving Bowls

To mix and prepare the foodstuffs, we use mixing bowls. I generally prefer Borosilicate-glass mixing bowls as it is highly heat resistant as well as we can use it to prepare food in a microwave, and oven also. Additionally, these bowls can also be used as serveware items.

Colander

This kitchen tools comes in handy for rinsing water from foods like steamed rice, noodles, vegetables, and fruits etc.

Salad Spinner

We use this kitchen tool for mixing the salad. Also, we can utilise its lid to contain the chopped, washed and mixed vegetables.

Mortar and Pestle

This kitchen tool is basically used for crushing the spices such as ginger, garlic, cardamom, cloves, black pepper and dried red chillies etc.

Pepper Grinder

Sometimes, it is required to grind a few amounts of ground pepper and salt to add it into tea or other home usages. In this situation, Pepper Grinder is the best option to get a quick response.

Rolling Pin & Chakla

This is the most practical unit for rolling and spreading kneaded dough balls. The heavier this unit is, the more comfortable it will be to operate.

Tea Strainer

We use this item to sieve tea or other liquids. You may have seen that most households use a metallic strainer, while a few homemakers use a plastic tea strainer to sieve the hot tea, which could be hazardous to them.

Ice Cream Scoop

It is a basic essential of the restaurant, parties and kitchen to pull out the ice cream from the container.

Pizza Cutter

It’s a pizza, bread, pastry and sandwich slicing kitchen tool that’s commonly used in both restaurants and home kitchens.

Basting Brush

For applying oil on skillet, pan, and chapati etc., most households keep it in their kitchen, while some homemakers pour oil into the skillet, and pan etc. roughly which might be excess, resulting in harmful for health. So, in this condition, using a basting brush is the best option in order to optimize the application of oil while cooking.

Funnel

It’s a product that’s usage is to pour oil and other liquids into the containers so that the oil and other liquids can not spill out from the containers.

Oil & Vinegar Dispenser set

This dispenser set is a good choice for containing oil and vinegar to avoid messy oil-pouring work as it provides us to pour the oil and vinegar with ease and with minimal overspilling.

Can Opener

Its usage is to open all kinds of packed and sealed food containers, including cold-drink cans and sauce bottles.

Conclusion

To sum up, you can observe that I have selected the 28 best kitchen tools & essentials for food prep which are mentioned above. This kitchen tools & essentials list has been prepared by keeping various factors in mind, i.e. specifications, qualities, rating and reviews. My main motive for creating this article was to provide comprehensive details about food prep kitchen tools & essentials for all households who need them.

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