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Small Utensils

  • There are many types of Small utensils in this kitchen.
  • They help you; measure, prepare, cook, and serve food.
  • It is very important to know what they are called, where they live in our kitchen, and how to use and clean them.

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Goal: To learn the name, care, and use of every small utensil.

“Where does it live at Stelly’s?”

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Knives, Hand Tools, and �Small Equipment

Pastry Bag: cone-shaped cloths or plastic bags with an open end that can be fitted with metal tubes or tips of various shapes and sizes.

    • Used for shaping and decorating with items such as cake icing, whipped cream, duchesse potatoes, and soft dough.

Pastry Brush: used to brush items with egg wash, glaze, etc.

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Hand Tools and Small Equipment

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Timers

  • Use for ALL food products you put in oven
  • Remember!
  • Do NOT turn off a timer without checking the oven
  • Do NOT leave the kitchen with food in oven without telling someone you have a product in oven.

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Egg Slicer

  • Used to cut or slice hard boiled eggs
  • Used for egg salad sandwich filling,
  • Salads with a garnish of sliced egg
  • Lives in a bin on the sandwich station shelf.

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Citrus Juicer

  • Lives in sandwich station, in a bin on the shelf.
  • Used to make juice for salad dressings etc.
  • Used for oranges, lemons, limes.

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Pasta wheel

  • Decorative tool to create a pretty scallop edge.
  • Can be used for pastry, puff pastry, or pasta dough.
  • Lives in sandwich station or red tool box in dry storage.

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Salad Spinner

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  • Three part spinner

  • Lives on shelf beside the walk in fridge

  • Must be washed after use by student who uses it!

  • Wash by hand in entrée sink

  • Let dry

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Baking Tools- Parchment paper

  • Parchment paper
  • Each piece is 15 cents !
  • We reuse the paper
  • DO NOT throw out unless it has been used for bacon or meat.
  • Lives; New- on top of proofer
  • Old: sheet pans on top of steamer

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Baking Tools- Silicone tools

  • Silicone Baking pan and sheet pan liners.
  • The top picture are silicone baking pans you put batter in directly and bake.
  • The bottom is a sheet pan liner used to bake instead of parchment paper.
  • Used for roasting vegetables, meats.
  • Can be used for baking however we use it for other messy products in our kitchen.

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