The Kitchen

ABOUT KITCHEN:

The kitchen is the most often used area than other area in your house. I’m very particular about cleanliness and organization and I use to clean and organize my home very often. Here are the some basic tips and things that are mandatory for a neat and organized kitchen and this will be helpful for someone who want to create your own kitchen from scratch.

• BASIC ITEMS NEEDED FOR THE KITCHEN
  • ELECTRIC/NON-ELECTRIC ITEMS
  • KITCHEN TOOLS
  • BAKING TOOLS
• ABOUT COOKWARES
  • ESSENTIAL COOKWARES FOR YOUR KITCHEN
• SERVING ITEMS
• ORGANIZED KITCHEN WITH SOME BASIC COOKWARES
• ADDITIONAL KITCHEN ITEMS FOR WELL ORGANIZED KITCHEN
• SPECIAL NOTE/TIPS

 BASIC ELECTRIC/NON ELECTRIC ITEMS:

• Gas stove
• Induction stove(in india)
• Microwave(optional)
• Convention oven(optional)
• Fridge
• Mixie/blender
• Grinder
• Chopper(optional)
• Toaster (optional)
• Coffee maker (optional)
• Electric mixer

BASIC KITCHEN TOOLS:

• Knife, Cutting board
• Some basic tools (screw driver,can opener,a pair of tongs,vegetable peeler)
• Vegetable/cheese grater
• Vegetable slicer
• Lighter/match box
• candles

BAKING TOOLS:

• Electric mixer
• Stand electric mixer(optional)
• Measuring cups
• Measuring spoons
• Bakeware set(cookie sheet pan,cupcake mould,round pan 8*8/9*9,loaf pan)
• Mixing bowls
• Spatula
• Thermometer (optional)

COOKWARES

• How to select your cookware

Match your cookware to your cooktop, the cooktop would be Gas Top,Glass Top,Induction Top,Coil top etc., flat bottomed pans are the most popular. If you have an induction cooktop, cookware with magnetic properties is a must.Buy the product along with magnetic influenze.

• Types of cookwares
  • Stainless Steel
  • Non-stick
  • Copper bottom
  • Hard anodized non stick
  • Aluminum material
  • Steel material
  • Cast iron
  • Enameled cast iron
  • Clay material(Mud pot)

ESSENTIAL COOKWARES:

NOTE

Do some homework before you are going to buy the kitchen cookwares,

Make sure about the product you are going to buy that doesnot contain any

PFOA perfluorooctanoic acid also called C8,this usually add as a synthetic fluropolymer along with PTFE (Polytetrfluroethylene).mostly we found this on Non-stick pans.This leads to severe health issues.

ESSSENTIAL COOKWARES FOR YOUR KITCHEN

The basic cookwares that are essential in your kitchen are

• Cooker(Preferably Indian cooker like Prestige,Hawkins etc)
• Heavy bottomed large Pan
• Either non-stick/heavy bottomed saute pan
• Sauce pan
• Milk pot/small sauce pan
• Dosa pan/tawa
• Chapathi pan
• Mixing bowls
• Water pot/mug
• Tea filter
• Coffee filter
• Ladle set for sautéing, sauce,colander,strainer,rice serving spoon,dosa/chapthi/pan cake turner
• Chapthi maker (indian hand maker )

SERVING ITEMS

The count that i mentioned for 4 member in a family, you can buy depends on your family count and additional for your guest

• Dinner set (or)
• 4 meal plate
• 4 tiffin plate
• 4 side plate
• 4 glass /tumblers for water
• 4 wine glass(optional)
• 4 juice glass
• 4 coffee cups/dawara set (typical south indian method of serving filter coffee)
• 4 meal spoon,4 dessert spoon,4 forks,4 butter knife(optional)
• 4 dessert bowl/icecream bowl
• 4 small cups for serving liquid dessert for payasam/custard
• Salt and pepper stand

How to organize your kitchen

• Make sure that you have the following basic things in your home before organizing your kitchen,this might helpful to everyone especially for indian kitchen
• Oil containers (cooking oil/olive oil/gingelly oil/coconut oil)
• Salt container/uppu jaadi
• BPA free/steel Spice containers(12)
• BPA free/steel large Grains/pulses container(12)
• Anjari peti/ spice boxes handy(7/5)
• BPA free/steel large flour container(6)
• BPA free/steel large storage container(6)
• BPA free air tight container for snacks (2)
• Ladle stand
• Plate stand
• Rubber pads (to keep the glass items)
• Drying matt (to keep your washed utensils)
• Heat resistant matt(to keep hot food)
• Stainless steel large bowl for idly batter
• Stainless steel small bowl for homemade curd

 Additional things to keep your kitchen well organized

• Plastic wrap (for bakers)
• Aluminum foil
• Butter /parchment paper(for baker)
• Ziplocs
• Rubber bands
• Office clips (very useful to keep your grocery as fresh)
• Tooth pick(multipurpose)
• Candles
• Match box/lighter
• Cupcake paper moulds(for baker)
• Cake stand (for baker)
• Skewers( for kebabs)

SPECIAL NOTE

Always use/keep separate pan/bowls and ladles/spoons for the following, for sure you can feel the difference

• Milk – inorder to avoid curdling
• Sweets – to get the perfect texture/taste/smell(ex: paal kova)
• Deep frying- always use wide and deep vessel to get the perfect fried texture
• White rice- we consider rice as Goddess Lakshmi so we always keep a separate vessel and we rinse it separately too.
• Non veg- we usually add more masala to our non-veg, keeping separate vessel will help you for get a better taste and texture(ex: mann pathiram (mud vessel))
• Veg- this is purely optional I prefer separate cookware’s for vegetarian, that will helpful for me during Pooja
• Curd- for CURD,GHEE,MILK always use/keep a separate vessel to avoid curdling or Easy spoiling
• Idli/dosa batter- steel preferable for quick fermentation, BPA free-plastic for keeping the batter fresh for long time (1 week or so)