Kitchen Management

      Cooking oil is a plant, animal, or synthetic fat used in frying, baking, and other types of cooking. It is also used in food preparation and flavoring not involving heat, such as salad dressings and bread dips, and in this sense might be more accurately termed edible oil.

Cooking oil is typically a liquid at room temperature, although some oils that contain saturated fat, such as coconut oil, palm oil, and palm kernel oil are solid.

There is a wide variety of cooking oils from plant sources such as olive oil, palm oil, soybean oil, canola oil (rapeseed oil), corn oil, peanut oil, and other vegetable oils, as well as animal-based oils like butter and lard.

Oil can be flavored with aromatic foodstuffs such as herbs, chilies or garlic.

     A baker is someone who bakes and sometimes sells bread and other products made using an oven or another concentrated heat source. The place where a baker works are called a bakery. Bakers normally bake bread, cakes, pies, pastries and other general items made of flour.

Stainless steel is well known for being hardy and anti-rust despite daily wear and tear, making it an obvious choice for most modern kitchens. However, that doesn’t mean that rust, stains, and damage never happen. Most stainless steel appliances have a protective film and if this is scratched, it leaves the steel underneath vulnerable to damage from chemicals, water, and rough surfaces. Read on to know how to clean stainless steel properly!

What is Stand Mixer?

Stand mixers mount the motor driving the rotary action in a frame or stand which bears the weight of the device. Stand mixers are larger and have more powerful motors than their hand-held counterparts. They generally have a special bowl that is locked in place while the mixer is operating. A typical home stand mixer will include a wire whisk for whipping creams and egg whites; a flat beater for mixing batters; and a dough hook for kneading.

Stand mixers are generally available in either countertop (also called bench) or floor models. Heavy duty commercial models can have bowl capacities well in excess of 25 gallons (95 l) and weigh thousands of pounds (kilograms) but more typical home and light commercial models are equipped with bowls of around 1 gallon (4 l). Whether a mixer is a countertop or floor model depends on its size. Mixers that are 5 gallons (20 l) in size or smaller tend to be countertop mixers, while larger mixers tend to be floor models due to their size and weight.

Spiral mixers are specialist tools for mixing the dough. A spiral-shaped agitator remains stationary while the bowl rotates. This method enables spiral mixers to mix the same size dough batch much quicker and with less under-mixed dough than a similarly powered planetary mixer. Spiral mixers can mix dough with less agitator friction than planetary mixers. This allows the dough to be mixed without increasing its temperature, ensuring the dough can rise properly.

Planetary mixers consist of a bowl and an agitator. The bowl remains static, whilst the agitator is rapidly moved around the bowl to mix its contents. With the ability to mix a wide variety of ingredients, planetary mixers are more versatile than their spiral counterparts. Planetary mixers can be used to whip and blend, whereas spiral mixers cannot. They are normally used in Australia, India, and Europe too. The mixers are used all over the world.

The fridge is pretty much the largest appliance in the kitchen. So it's important to decorate it although many people think it's not simple. Read on to find several simple ways to dress up your fridge!