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Preventing liquids from boiling over outside of the pot A disc with a raised rim, designed to ensure an even distribution of temperature throughout the pot. This preventing bubbles from forming in liquids such as milk, or water which contains starch (for instance if used to cook pasta). Can be made of metal, glass or ceramic materials. Bottle ...
Knife indentation is done away from the edge of a kitchen knife. A knife most simply has either a rectangular or wedge-shaped cross-section (sabre-grind v. flat-grind, but may also have concave indentations or hollows, whose purpose is to reduce adhesion of the food to the blade, so producing a cleaner and easier cut. This is widely found in ...
Porcelain milk watcher - notice that there is one notch on each side, and how the interior slants toward the notch Glass milk watcher Stainless steel milk watcher. A milk watcher, milk saver, pot watcher, pot minder, milk guard, or boil over preventer is a cooking utensil placed at the bottom of a pot to prevent the foaming boil-over of liquids by collecting small bubbles of steam into one ...
That sounds like a crazy thing to say, but actually it would reduce- you know, you can still cut your food without the point on your knife, which is an innovative way to sort of look at it," he said.
The Best Way to Prevent Cut Apples From Browning. Dipping cut apples in salt water is the best way to delay browning, says Kimberly Knight, chef-instructor at the Institute of Culinary Education.
A mandoline is used by running a piece of food (with some protection for fingers) along an adjustable inclined plane into one or more blades. On some models vertical blades cut to produce julienne, or a wavy blade is used that produces crinkle cuts. In these models a quarter turn to the food between passes produces dice and waffle cuts.
Home fires jump by 350% on Thanksgiving compared to a typical day. Learn how to prevent Thanksgiving kitchen fires with tips from safety experts.
Kitchen utensils in bronze discovered in Pompeii. Illustration by Hercule Catenacci in 1864. Benjamin Thompson noted at the start of the 19th century that kitchen utensils were commonly made of copper, with various efforts made to prevent the copper from reacting with food (particularly its acidic contents) at the temperatures used for cooking, including tinning, enamelling, and varnishing.