Kitchenware

A kitchen appliance (also kitchen utensil or kitchen tool, kitchen gadget also ugs ) is a specialized on kitchen work simple hand tool or a mechanical or electrical tools. In contrast to many other areas of the tools while the hygienic preparation of the food plays an important role, and therefore stainless steel is often used as the material. The object of the device is to allow, among other things, cooking and baking processes that accelerate, simplify or improve the food preparation and preservation by cooling or freezing.

The first mechanical kitchen appliances already existed before the discovery of electricity. They were mainly operated with a hand crank (eg mixer or meat grinder ). Today, most kitchen appliances are electrically powered. In professional fields but also hand-powered devices have a fixed place, as they are easier to clean and are often more robust.

Previously, all kitchen appliances, the mechanics of which approximately corresponded to a machine called a " food processor ". Devices with multiple functions, the forerunner of today's food processors, it became " universal kitchen machine ". The current term food processor is in contrast strongly concentrated, and only refers to a specific type of device.

Typical tasks of kitchen appliances

  • Grab
  • Lifting and turning
  • Plate
  • Stirring and beating
  • Cutting and dividing
  • Hacking and chopping
  • Grate
  • Pureeing and grinding
  • Press
  • Heating, cooking and baking
  • Cooling and freezing
  • Measuring
  • Grind coarsely
  • Juicing

Examples of kitchen appliances

Containers, pots, pans, pots

  • Grapen ( historical ), whistling kettle, Römertopf
  • Percolater
  • Mixing Bowl

Simple hand tools (excluding mechanics)

  • Spoon, knife, skewer
  • Kitchen grater, lemon squeezer, Vegetable Slicer ( " Mandolin " )
  • Sieves, coffee filters
  • Tenderizer
  • Doses Stecher, corkscrew

Grater

Lemon squeezer made ​​of glass

Doses Stecher for Kondensmilchdosen

Mechanical kitchen equipment

  • Can opener
  • Spice Mill
  • Juicer, Flotte Lotte
  • Mincer
  • Pasta Machine
  • Table or floor cleaner
  • Timer, egg timer
  • Kitchen scale

Kitchen clock with timer (1956 )

Mechanical can opener

Pasta Machine

Pepper mill

Hand operated meat mincer

Modern salt and pepper mill

Historical kitchen appliances

  • Cooking stove for wood or coal, cooking machine ( mid to late 19th century), Stove
  • Bratröste, spatula, coffee roaster, kettle hook ( Hal), siphon pot, waffle iron

Kitchen electrical appliances

  • Cooking and Baking: stove (also for gas: gas stove ), oven, microwave oven, pressure cooker, extractor
  • Rinse: Dishwasher
  • Cooling and freezing: fridge, freezer, fridge -freezer
  • Keeping warm: Salamander

Small domestic appliances:

  • Preparing: can opener, hand mixer, electric knife, blender, juicer, kettle,
  • Preparation: coffee maker, deep fryer, food processor, small grill, raclette oven, toaster, wok
  • Keeping warm: hot plate, milk bottle warmer, yoghurt maker

Food processor (designed by Gerd Alfred Müller and Robert Oberheim, 1957)

Semi-automatic espresso machine

Blender

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