If you want your restaurant chef to serve you the most exceptional food with amazing flavours, you need to provide them with the best quality kitchen tools! Using the right kitchen tools can go a long way in improving your kitchen staff efficiency, in making your customers happy, and your restaurant successful.
7 Tools Your Chefs Needs In Your Restaurant Kitchen
1. Measuring Cups and Spoons
How do you get the precise measurements for following that perfect recipe? Measuring cups and spoons are the kitchen tools to your rescue!
- In a professional kitchen, measuring cups and spoons help maintain consistency and make tasty dishes.
- Measuring cups measure the exact volume of liquid or solid cooking ingredients.
- Measuring spoons and cups can be made of plastic, metal, and other materials and come in different sizes.
2. Salad Spinner
If you are planning to serve vegan options in your restaurant menu, then you have to invest in the salad spinner.
- A salad spinner removes excessive water from salad greens when you make a salad. The centrifugal force removes moisture from the leaves, making the salad dressing stick to the salad leaves without dilution.
- It is typically made of plastic. The design includes an outer bowl with an inner removable strainer basket. A cover is put outside the bowl with a spinning mechanism, which causes the internal strainer to rotate rapidly.
3. Baking Sheets
Baking sheets are used for baking pastries, bread, rolls, cookies, and even pizzas.
- Typically, baking trays have one or more raised edges to retain food, a contiguous rim to retain food or liquid and handles to assist you when you move the pan into or out of the oven.
- Earlier, the sheets used to be made of sheet iron; now, they are either made of aluminium or steel.
4. Pastry Brushes
Have you heard of this other marvellous cooking tool used in baking?
- Get not just one but multiple pastry brushes. They are an essential tool to spreads butter, oil, or glaze on your baked food. It is also used to grease the inside of a pan with butter when you bake to prevent sticking.
- It is a valuable tool for both novice bakers and seasoned bakers.
- Commonly, the bristles in pastry brushes are made of plastic, silicon, nylon, or other natural materials. According to experts, silicon brushes are less likely to fall out or splinter and are washed easily. However, they may damage delicate pastry, so you should go for natural brushes.
5. Roasting Pans
A roasting pan is a cookware used for roasting meat in an oven.
- A roasting pan is a large, oven-safe pan with high sides, often including a rack.
- A shallow roasting pan is generally used for roasting minor cuts of meat, while large pans are used for cooking large poultry like turkey, goose etc.
- These pans are usually made of thick aluminium or stainless steel to support the weight of heavy and large pieces of meat.
6. Ice-Makers
Ice-makers are a must if your restaurant is serving cool drinks and cocktails.
- Ice-makers either refer to devices used for making ice, found inside a home freezer, or a stand-alone appliance for making ice (generally used in bars and restaurants).
- They are lovely for various purposes, like chilling fruit juices, soft drinks, and cocktails.
- Get an underbench and modular ice machine with an ice bin for hygienic, convenient, ready-to-use ice.
7. Coffee Makers
A fine coffee maker will be the difference between coffee made at home and the one made at your restaurant.
- A coffee maker is used to brew fresh coffee! There are many different types of coffee makers available in the market.
- The most common brewing machines use gravity or pressure to move hot water through coffee grounds. Generally, coffee grounds are placed into a paper or metal filter inside a funnel; the filter is then set over a glass or ceramic coffee pot. Cold water is poured into a separate chamber in the machine, then boiled and directed into the funnel. It drips through the grounds under gravity.
- Coffee makers using pressure to force water through the coffee grounds are called espresso makers. And espresso can then be combined with milk, ice, or other drinks to make different coffees like latte, flat white, cappuccino, americano etc.
Every professional kitchen needs special tools to make the best food. Depending on what menu you are serving in your restaurant and what skills your chef has, the list of tools needed for your kitchen might change. But we have tried to compile every primary tool that you must have.
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