Kitchen: 10 essential tools for healthy cooking

Cooking at home, preparing the dishes to bring to the table with your own hands, without relying on ready meals, is a fundamental step to approach a healthier kitchen and eating style. By preparing our dishes we will be perfectly aware of the ingredients present within them. What are the essential tools to use and which can be of help, especially for beginners? Here are some tips on this.



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Cooking at home, preparing the dishes to bring to the table with their own hands, without relying on ready meals, it is a fundamental step to approach a healthier kitchen and eating style.

By preparing our dishes we will be perfectly aware of the ingredients present within them. What are the essential tools to use and that they can be of help, especially to those who are beginners? Here are some tips on this.

Index

1) Wooden cutting board

Un wooden cutting board it is absolutely necessary to slice fruit, vegetables and any other food that deserves to be treated with care. Wooden cutting boards last longer over time than plastic cutting boards, are less easily damaged and are easier to clean. True, there are numerous electronic kitchen tools that can help us slice vegetables in a thousand ways, but manual work, as always, helps us not to waste energy and, often, even time.

Kitchen: 10 essential tools for healthy cooking

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2) Wooden spoon

Il wooden spoon, as well as being considered a real one symbol of natural cuisine, is probably one of the most ancient kitchen utensils. Unlike metal, wood has the advantage of not being a good conductor of heat, and can be used for mix foods contained in the pots that are to be cooked on the stove or stove. A real convenience compared to other metal tools, with which you risk getting burned, or plastic, which inevitably get damaged by heat.



3) Chef's knife

A well-sharpened and functioning knife represents, in combination with the wooden cutting board, a tool that allows you to to slice bread, vegetables, fruit and all other foods, as well as chopping aromatic herbs, in a simple way, with little effort and without wasting electricity by resorting to other means. It is therefore advisable to invest in long-lasting knives, which can be used for many years, also thanks to sturdy handles, which do not get damaged in a short time.

4) Metal bowls

Le metal bowls to be used to mix the ingredients for the preparation of the dough are really essential and cannot be compared to plastic bowls. They are usually made of stainless steel, they are resistant and they will be able to accompany you for years. There is no risk of them getting damaged, as can happen with plastic bowls. Inside them it is easier to work the dough, which will easily detach from their walls.

5) Colander

Also with regard to the colander, the preferable material to choose is stainless steel, compared to plastic. This is a feature that will allow us to use it not only to drain pasta, rice or vegetables, but also for steam cooking. It can also be used for washing vegetables or rinsing salads, as well as for home cultivation of shoots.

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6) Glass jars

Kitchen: 10 essential tools for healthy cooking

I glass jars airtight are excellent for storage of numerous types of food. Pouring your flours from the paper package to a glass jar will prevent them from being attacked by the butterflies that sometimes appear inside the pantry. They can very well replace the plastic containers to preserve pasta, rice, legumes, grains, nuts and dried fruit, dried aromatic herbs, jams, homemade biscuits.



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7) Thick-bottomed pot

A thick-bottomed stainless steel pot allows you to facilitate cooking of whole grains and legumes. In fact, these are foods that require rather long and low heat cooking, but with an unsuitable pan they unfortunately risk sticking to the bottom, especially if the cooking water is absorbed more quickly than expected. Mix occasionally with a wooden spoon it will certainly help you from this point of view.

8) Graduated container

The graduated container is perfect for measure liquids and allows you to avoid using the electronic scale when it is not strictly necessary, as well as to speed up the preparation of desserts and other dishes that require a precise quantity of liquid ingredients to be included in the recipes. In this case, glass containers are advisable compared to plastic containers, since they are more resistant and solid and usually guarantee higher accuracy.

9) Vegetable mill

The vegetable mill, also known as strainer, it's a manual kitchen utensil which can be used to mash and purée already cooked foods, such as potatoes, carrots, legumes or spinach. It can be useful to use it in the home preparation of tomato sauce in substitution instruments that require to be connected to the electric current and that, minute after minute, suck energy. After all, manual tools can only be oriented towards savings.

10) Kitchen mortar

Here is another manual tool that lends itself to numerous uses in the kitchen, starting with the traditional preparation of pesto based on basil. The mortar can also be used to reduce lees to powder herbs dried, spices and coarse salt, to grind the nuts, for the preparation of guacamole sauce in place of the blender and for the home preparation of granite. The kitchen mortar can be made of wood, metal, stone, steel or ceramic.

You might also need them one or more steaming baskets, in order to save energy and gas by cooking at the same time on the same stove, for example, rice and different types of vegetables, stacking the baskets one on top of the other, and a pressure cooker, especially useful for speeding up the cooking times of legumes, soups and brown rice, as well as to further minimize energy consumption in the stove.

Marta Albè

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