The kitchen for each hostess is a sacred place. This is not only the room where food is prepared, it is a creative laboratory, with its own orders, installations and inventory for experiments.
Sets of all kinds of cooking and frying vessels, sets of baking forms, heat-resistant dishes, utensils for freezing, sets and loose cups and plates often turn the kitchen into a warehouse. On the other hand, young inexperienced housewives often find it difficult to orient themselves, what should first of all be bought from utensils. They fall into the other extreme, confining themselves to one pot for all occasions and buying dishes strictly according to the number of family members.
Nevertheless, both extremes of comfort and coziness at home are not added. The preferences in the choice of dishes for each owner are their own. However, the minimum required for cooking in each kitchen is approximately the same.
Cookware for heat treatment
This is the first, without which you can not do without. It is desirable to have a basic set of three or four pots of different volume for cooking soups and cooking garnishes. It is better to stock up a large diameter frying pan for frying cutlets, chops, fish. Frying pan is smaller for frying, or, for example, an omelet for breakfast for two.
Adherents of baking, as the most healthy way of cooking, will need a pair of heat resistant molds of different sizes. You can add to this kit a form for cake or cake.
Small cooking utensils
Mandatory in the kitchen should be:
- separate knives for bread and meat;
- at least two chopping boards;
- colander;
- ladle;
- two or three bowls;
- whipping capacity;
- paddle for the frying pan;
- spoon with long handle for stirring.
Dishes for serving
Usually, its set is calculated based on the number of family members. For each two dishes and utensils:
- plates are deep for the first course;
- plates are small for the second;
- dessert plates or saucers;
- cups. Based on their preferences - tea or coffee;
- glasses for cold drinks;
- forks, spoons, table knives.
Kitchen textiles
Without it, today it is difficult to imagine a modern kitchen. Here we are not talking about designer curtains or heavy tablecloths. From textile products in the kitchen you will need a few cotton towels, two potholders and a pair of tissue napkins.
The modern choice of dishes is great and diverse. Focusing on this minimum, even the most strict and demanding hostess will be able to pick up the dishes to their liking. No doubt, lovers of cooking and kitchen gatherings will find what to add to the list, than to expand and diversify. Nevertheless, it will be useful not only for beginners in the kitchen, but also for those who do not want to litter their house with extra things.