Essential Kitchen tools for making cookies
Baking is beautiful but not easy. A small mistake can lead to somewhere else. A wrong proportion of ingredients can ruin your final product. So it is necessary your proportion should be accurate and for the accurate measurement, you need some baking tools. Here are some 24 Essential kitchen tools that help in baking cookies. I had divided tools into some categories.
Categories are:
1)Measuring Tools
- Teaspoon
- Tablespoon
- Measuring Scoop
- Milk or water holder jar
- Measuring cup dry and liquid
2)Mixing tools
- Stand mixer or whisk
- Beater
- Spatula set
- Flat spoon
- Bowl
- Pipping Bag and nozzle
- Pastry blender
- Cling wrap
3)Baking tools
- Baking mat
- Gloves
- Oven or Convection
- Square Baking Pan
4) Others
- Zester
- Peeler
- Weighing Scales
- Pizza cutter
- Rolling Pin
- Brush
- Egg separator
1)Measuring Tools
1.Teaspoon– It is a small spoon mainly used for measuring the volume of dry or wet material or used to stir the coffee or tea for mixing a sugar.
2. Tablespoon – Tablespoon is mainly used for eating food or sometimes for serving food or measuring the volume of dry or wet items. Three teaspoons are equal to one Tablespoon.
3. Measuring Cup and spoon-The measuring cup are used for the exact measurement of the dry ingredients like flour, sugar, etc.
Measuring Spoon is used for the right measurement of the dry spices or wet spices or raising agents. Measuring cup and spoon help in keeping the right proportion of raw material.
4.Milk or water holder jar– This is used for keeping milk and water.
5. Measuring cup dry and liquid-This tool is for measuring the perfect quantity of water and milk. This liquid measuring is a transparent cup. This cup has a mark of a liter or oz or cups on it so you can easily measure a quantity of water or milk.
2)Mixing tools
1. Stand mixer -Stand mixer or hand mixer is used for mixing the dense batter of cookies properly.
2.Beater or whisk- Beater is used to beat the eggs, and mix light batters.
3.Spatula – Spatula is for mainly used for flip the cookies in baking tray.
4. Flat Spoon– Flat spoon is mainly used for scraping out the bottom of dough in the bowl. In image flat spoon( extreme left and extreme right )
5.Bowl -Mixing bowl are used for making the dough of cookies.
6. Pipping Bag and Nozzle – Piping bag and nozzle are used to decorate the cookies.
7.Pastry blender– Pastry blender is used to mix a hard fat into flour in order to make pastries, cookies etc.
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8. Cling wrap-Cling wrap is used for sealing Cookie items in containers to keep them fresh over a longer period of time.
3.Baking tools
1.Baking Mat– Baking mat is used to cover cookie sheets when baking.
2.Gloves – Gloves are for users to wear at the time of removing the baking tray from oven or convection.
3.Oven or Convection-It is a tool for bake the cookies.
4. Square Baking Pan– Baking pan is a tray that is mainly used for baking the cookies.
4.Other
1.Zester– A Zester is used for obtaining zest from lemons and other citrus fruit. In the below image zester is on a white plate.
2.Peeler– Peeler is mainly used for peeling vegetables or peeling the fruit or chocolate.
3. Weighing Scales- Weighing scale is used to measure the exact quantities of ingredients of raw material so we can make perfect cookies.
4.Pizza Cutter- It is used for for cut the hard dough of cookies.
5. Rolling Pin– Rolling pin is used for shaping and flatten the cookie dough.
6.Brush– Brush is use for grease the cookies with oil or butter.
