Cookery Skills, Techniques and Processes

Has a wide, blunt edged blade which is usually flexible. It is used for

smoothing icing or cream onto cakes and for

shaping and coating food.

• Palette Knife

• Spatula

• Fish Slice

A ____ _____ has a broad, slotted flexible blade. It is usually made from metal, heat resistant plastic or is Teflon coated. It is used for turning foods during frying and for lifting foods (i.e. flans)

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Can multiple sized holes and can be used to grate vegetables and cheese.

• Zester

• Vegetable knife

• Grater

• Peeler

Also called a balloon whisk, this used for whisking and blending.

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A wire grid used for cooling cakes and pastries – it allows the air to circulate round the item, cooling it quicker

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Used to take the skin off vegetables but also can be used to create chocolate shavings.

• Peeler

• Grater

• Knife

• zester

Used to measure liquid. I am a ______ ___

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Used to sprinkle flour on a work surface before kneading or rolling dough. Or used to sprinkle icing sugar on cakes. I am a ____ ____

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We used this to flatten our dough when making pastry. I am a _____ ___

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It is an all purpose,

used for slicing, dicing, chopping and shredding.

• Chefs knife

• Vegetable Knife

• Palette Knife

• Grater