Home cooks can often find themselves using kitchen equipment to multitask, such as cooking for their families while baking breads and cakes. Therefore, the ideal modern home kitchen should balance functionality, efficiency, comfort, and confidence, where state-of-the-art equipment uses smart controls to assist users to work with ease and safety. Here, then, are three essential tools to make your culinary lives easer…
- Free Standing Cookers
Powered by gas or electricity, this type of equipment also mutitasks. Boiling, stirring, frying, grilling, roasting, even baking for bread and cakes. Timers, lamps and temperature settings are standard components attached that help with cooking precision. Some even have double glazed doors to ensure the safety during heating process. If the cooker has a convection feature, this means that during baking or roasting the oven remove excess moisture to get the crispy, flaky results you want.
- Stand Mixers (with attachments)
So called because of its stability, the stand mixer is a completely different concept to our first mixer, the common, cheap-to-buy hand mixer. As the name suggests, using this type of mixer requires us to use both hands, which is frustrating when we may need to do another job. In contrast, the stand mixer says just add the ingredients you want to mix, attach the bread hook (for bread dough, for example) or balloon whisk for mixing the cream and liquid items, set the speed, and voila! Now you can monitor the mixing while completing other tasks at the same time. A good quality stand mixer will guarantee consistent mixing results and save precious time.
- Food Processors
Chopping meat, slicing vegetables or fruits, shredding a chocolate or cheese block and blending the fruits to make juice or slush are only some of the functions contained in these kitchen time-savers. Some products can even make peanut butter, crushing ice cubes, grind coffee beans, and mix cake batters. A versatile food processor minimizes time when producing daily meals or doing bulk prep for handling catering orders. Our advice? opt for one with variable speeds and multiple blades or discs for more the best results.
Written by Petrus Gandamana, BARECA Media Founder & Food-startup Mentor
