KITCHEN EQUIPMENT

**Definition:** This place covers:

Devices for making beverages therefore include:

Household apparatuses for making beverages, e.g. by brewing or diluting;

Beverage shakers, devices for foaming milk.

Storing and handling of devices for preparing, cooking, or warming food or for making beverages refer to:

Storing and handling arrangements therefore include:

Devices for warming kitchen utensils, e.g. dishes.

Storing food refers to:

Devices for storing food therefore include:

Kitchen containers;

Thermally insulated vessels, e.g. flasks, jugs or jars.

**Glossary:** - cooking: boiling, braising, steaming, pressure cooking, frying, baking, roasting, grilling or barbecuing food. - boiling: cooking food by submerging it in boiling water, or other water-based liquid (e.g. broth or milk); keeping liquid foodstuff (or water) at a boiling temperature. - braising: cooking food with moist heat, e.g. stewing or pot roasting. - steaming: cooking food in an atmosphere with hot steam. - pressure cooking: cooking food at a pressure different (i.e. higher or lower) than that of the atmosphere. - frying: cooking food in hot oil or fat, e.g. pan frying or deep frying. - deep (fat) frying: cooking food by submerging it in hot oil or fat. - baking: cooking food by dry heat acting by conduction, normally in an oven, but also in hot ashes, or on hot stones. - roasting: cooking food with dry high heat. - grilling: applying direct dry high heat to food, most commonly from above, with heat transfer primarily via thermal radiation, e.g. by using the upper heating element of an electric oven, or inside a drawer below the flame of a gas oven. - barbecuing: cooking food with a barbecue by the heat and hot gases of a fire, smoking wood or hot coals of charcoal, or of an electrical heating element. - toasting: browning food by exposure to dry radiant heat, e.g. grilling of sliced bread on both sides. - warming: raising the temperature of food but not cooking it. - grating: disintegrating food, e.g. cheese, with a tool having several sharp protrusions.