Types of Cooking Utensils

Cooking utensils make cooking easier and sometimes more fun.

Cooking utensils are tools used in the kitchen to assist you with the process of cooking. Trying new utensils can add fun to making meals. There are different cooking utensils for all levels of cooks. Whether you struggle to boil water or are preparing a five-course gourmet dinner, there's a cooking utensil that will make your efforts easier and more enjoyable. Does this Spark an idea?

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Wire whisk
- A wire whisk is a basic cooking utensil.
  
  Wire whisks, also known as wire whips, are a basic and inexpensive essential to every kitchen. A whisk has a long handle with many wires at the end that form sort of a light bulb shape. Used for beating, stirring, mixing and blending, the wire whisk is great for whipping eggs for scrambled eggs, or cake batter for a nice light cake. The openness of the wires allows air to be beaten into your food mixture, making it lighter and fluffier. There are two types of wire whisks: heavy whips and balloon whips. Most people have the heavy whip, which is the stiffer version. Balloon whips have flexible wiring, allowing for even more air to be whipped into the mixture.
Garlic press
- Garlic presses are used to smash and cut garlic cloves.
  
  If convenience in the kitchen is something you appreciate, a garlic press is a useful cooking utensil to have on hand. Garlic adds flavor to meat and other lunch and dinner recipes, but the task of chopping it into fine pieces can be tedious. Since chopping is what brings out the full flavor, using a garlic press to smash and squeeze the garlic clove into pulp and small pieces is an easy way to complete the task.
Pasta server
- Keep noodles from clumping by stirring with a pasta server.
  
  Have you ever noticed how spaghetti noodles sometimes clump together while cooking? Stirring your pasta with a wooden spoon while it cooks only moves the pasta around in the water. When you use a pasta server, though, you separate the noodles during cooking and while serving. A pasta server is a useful cooking utensil to have if you enjoy cooking different types of pasta. Formed like a scoop on the end of a long handle, a pasta server has small prongs around the edge of the scoop that help to grab and separate noodles as they're cooking or being served.

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