What kitchen appliances do you need in a professional household?

2022. 11. 21.

In fact, the more useful tools you have, the more professional your kitchen is. If you are only throwing together the basic equipment, then one thing is really worth paying attention to: quality. Buy durable, thoughtfully designed tools, even for professional restaurant kitchens, such as knives and slicers. We'll show you!

Indispensable kitchen tools

Let's look at the most important small kitchen appliances. These are basic pieces that should be considered when equipping any kitchen. Choose ergonomically designed pieces that are of good quality.

Preparation

Food preparation tools can make peeling, grinding, and cutting easier. Provided you choose the best ones. 

• Vegetable peeler: Peeling vegetables is a simple kitchen task. You can also choose a simple peeler for a lower price. But even from this you can buy a more durable one, which is not much more expensive, nor is it a more complex device, it is simply more loadable and durable. This is why restaurant kitchens usually choose a stainless steel vegetable peeling blade, for example. This, for example, was created with a julienne cutting blade. 

• Cutting board: Keep several sizes of cutting boards in your kitchen so that you can always use the most practical size. Otherwise, it's worth keeping a separate cutting board for each type of raw material, so cut meat differently than vegetables.

• Knife set: A knife set is a more complex thing. A professional knife set includes a chef's knife, which is otherwise universal because it has a thick enough blade to easily cut with it. What's more, you don't have to lift it after each cut, because of its curve. In addition, it can be used for slicing meat and vegetables. The fillet knife can also play a more serious role in a well-assembled and, of course, well-utilized kitchen. We are talking about a knife with a thin blade, which is particularly pointed and sharp. The steak knife is also standard equipment. These knives are the same size as cutlery knives, only much sharper and usually have wooden handles. Such a knife is also often needed during food preparation. What else do you need in a knife set? For example, a meat cleaver that is particularly large and sharp. We use it to cope with larger cartilages as well. The bread knife has a much smaller but generally thicker handle and a long blade. This knife has a serrated, wavy blade. With these basic knives, we can already have a well-equipped knife set, it will be easy to prepare a finer dish. Of course, we can also approach the whole topic from the Japanese side. In their culture and in their kitchen, all roles are performed by three knives. If you would like to solve cutting and slicing with a fillet knife, a sword-like santoku knife and a julienne vegetable slicing knife, then buy an Innovagoods Japanese knife set. 

• Kitchen scale: It is very important, because you usually have to measure the quantities precisely. Definitely with a new recipe. That's why every household that bakes or cooks needs a high-quality kitchen scale. You can find more serious scales with which you can measure larger quantities here.

• Sieve and pasta strainer: Both tools are almost self-explanatory. When baking with a sieve, we can sift the flour, but many recipes say to sift the powdery raw material either out of caution or for quality assurance reasons. There are very good flour paddles with which you can make your work easier. After all, this will also make the texture better. and you can also get a pasta strainer that you can put directly onto the pot. But in Gammo's range you will also find pasta filter inserts that can be used easily and professionally.

• Meat grinder: Of course, you need a meat grinder if you prepare a lot of meat and you like to grind the carefully selected ingredients yourself. You can buy a manual meat grinder, but if you prepare meat in large quantities, you can even equip your kitchen with an electric meat grinder.

Pots and pans

• Pots: Pots are the tools that are tall but not wide. You should keep 3-5 pots at home, in different sizes. Why? Because if you prepare several dishes at the same time, you should still have enough on hand. Have two smaller pressure cookers, which are only 1-1.5 liters. You can make sauces and stir-fries in it. The large pot can be used for jelly, a large portion of broth, or any soup made in large quantities. Take a look at our range of pots, you can get pots of up to 17 liters.

• Pans: The characteristic of pans is that they are wider than their high. It is also worth keeping 3-4 different sized pans at home. So that you have a pan for different amounts of food in which you cook, or you just prepare one component separately. You should keep a pan from 2 liters up to 10 liters, because this way you can really cook and bake in a variety of ways. You might even want to get a slicer.

• Baking trays: You can find 2-3 different sizes of baking trays in a well-equipped kitchen. After all, we may need it for several types of food. The size of the baking tray is not only important because of the amount of portions, but also the height of the rim. For example, in the case of casseroles.

• Frying pans: 2-3 pcs are needed. The more solid, the better the heat distribution. That's why, for example, you can't go wrong with a stainless steel pan made of several plates. The pan also has the advantage of being non-stick. Keep pans in several sizes at home. For example, we can show you a very professional 0.6 liter pan. But there are also 1,5 liter and two liter frying pans in our offer. A good quality frying pan also has the big advantage that you can use them on the stove and in the oven. There are many dishes that should be quickly browned before being prepared over a slow fire. After all, this is how we can really seal the fibers of the meat, so it remains juicy and soft inside. A very good example of this is the Burgundy beef or the classic steak. So if you are a real gourmand, you definitely have 1-2 good pans in your kitchen.

• Heat resistant dishes: The advantage of the heat resistant dish is that it heats the food evenly, so the food cooks evenly. In addition, the heat-resistant glass also helps with especially tasty serving, so you kill two birds with one stone with such a dish. We recommend that you keep at least one larger one at home, but in fact we think 2-3 different sizes are really optimal.

• Pancake pans: An eternal classic and, of course, a basic accessory. When choosing a pancake pan, make sure it is compatible with your stove. Induction hobs are becoming more and more common, but we need a special pan for them. This also counts when baking pancakes, of course. You can also use an electric pancake maker.

The basic equipment listed here may be necessary in every kitchen. What distinguishes a professional kitchen from a simple household? Not the soue vide bath, or the fact that we find more in it with a few knives, pans or pots. But the fact that we equipped it with really professional quality materials.