Equipment Category

These can be either steel or ceramic rods.

These are heavy duty scissors used to cut through chicken bones and other difficult items.

An off center lid can reduce splatter.

These pans are great for baking delicate desserts that are prone to falling apart when removed from the pan. The rim loosens from the bottom when the clamp is opened. This pan has two bottoms, so that it can serve as both a tube pan (pictured) and a layer cake pan.

Warning: aluminum, copper, and iron cookware can react with acids in foods and alter their flavor and color.

This fits inside pots of different sizes, and the petals open to accommodate vegetables, seafood, or whatever else you want to steam.

These are made of bamboo and used to make sushi rolls.

These often have removable bottoms.

Wine, once exposed to air, turns vinegary. This stopper has a pump that removes much of the air from the bottle and allows you to keep opened bottles of wine a bit longer.

Invented by Thomas Edison, this is paper that's coated with paraffin wax to make it resistant to moisture. To use wax paper as a cake pan liner, place the pan on the paper, trace its outline, then cut it out and place it in the pan.

A well-equipped kitchen will have several of these, in different sizes.

This fine-meshed strainer is used to drain off the whey from yogurt in order to make yogurt cheese