Utensils

Kitchen Utensils

Left to Right:

Micro cheese grater, Basting Brush,Melon Baller, Apple Corer, Zester, ravioli cutter, Carving melon tool, Offset spatula, straight spatula, chopstick

In Front-Mushroom cleaning brush, and citrus juicer

• Micro cheese grater- great for super fine grating, nutmeg, and Parmesan in particular
• Basting Brush-used for egg wash on egg rolls, pies, etc., or basting chickens and turkeys
• Melon Baller-makes nice scoops of melon, or for de-seeding squashes.
• Apple Corer-not only cores your apples for apple pie, but aids in making mushroom shaped potatoes
• Zester-pull along the outside of citrus (lemon, lime, orange,grapefruit), the zest added to recipes adds so much intensity of flavor.  You want the colored part of the fruit, not the white pith.
• Ravioli cutter-Pizza cutter will do fine, but I like this one because it has a fluted edge on one of the rollers that makes a pretty edge on pastry.
• Carving melon tool-This takes a straight cut out of a melon
• Offset spatula- good for smoothing out the tops of things, cheesecake, h'orderves, etc.
• Straight spatula-Nice for spreading things out, and frosting cakes
• Chopstick-besides using them to eat, I use one wooden one to see if my oil is hot enough to fry-if it bubbles when put into the oil, your oil is hot enough.
• Mushroom cleaning brush-used to brush off your mushrooms to clean them instead of under water
• citrus juicer-cut your fruit in half, insert the pointed end, and twist.