Ever wondered why traditionally, cooking was a school subject for girls? It was called home economics, which was meant to really mean economics. In fact the terminology of the subject seems profound because it involves not only money but also the flow of the welfare of the home. Finally economics that involves the human side of things. Maybe Finance Professional should study Home Economics first then dabble the money and math. So would we end up with too many cooks?
The modern schools seem to quickly abandon this girl subject over the use of computers.
This gave men a reason to try the kitchen when modern women say they cant cook.
You see, when men cook, 2 things happen:
1. Kitchen is like a car that involves performance, specification and added gizmos
2. Gizmos
What is so wrong about gizmos? Well it is like owning the wide spectrum of beauty products and handbags.
Never, never bring your men to Temple Street in Chinatown, even if he doesn't cook. He is likely to end up buying a set of knifes or electronic scales, maybe a hip flask or a meat thermometer. Ladies be warn ! Ever see the amount of computer gizmos men have, well those are small.............and useless
So let us visit Temple Street !
oh WOW ! Ladles, strainers and whatever to your scooping passion.
More strainers, You can never have enough strainers, one to remove impurities by blanching, another to strain whatever you just cooked, one more as waste residue strainer when you discard in the warewash.
Woks ! If you are an aerojet nut, this is the early step into the future where you see yourself owning a restaurant at the end of a jetty. Seems to be a Chinese restauraner's wet dream which seldom happen in real life.
Multicolored chopping boards. Whats with the unicorn fashion? Well good cooks need them to identify if it is for chopping raw veges, raw meat, cooked food and other variants, maybe raw sea food and fermented stuff. This was there is a lesser risk of cross contamination.
Forceps, tongs, pincers, clapses, clutches and apparatus etc. Fine cooking is about turning the food gently instead of just tossing them.
Knives ! Butcher's , Boning , Carving, Cleavers, Shuckers, Mezzalunas, Paring etc. Round, Square and french point ! Colour coded again for you to know what they are meant for cutting ! [ Like a Japanese man reciting to you about the types of coffee but dont drink any]
Condiment containers. Condiment is
culture !
Tiffin has of late become sort after. It is the environmental friendly apparatus replacing disposable food containers.
If you are a sucker for recepies (unlike myself), you would like to get the same result after cooking the same thing many times. Kitchen scales help you to get the same portion every-time so you don't rely on measurement like "some", "a little bit", "a sprinkling", "a dash of" etc.
Ovens, hotplate, salamanders, warmers etc. Usually inclined towards western cooking
The latest pornography for western cooking are vacuum packers. No only is this for sealing thereby intensifying freshness of meats and vegetable for storage, the vacuum packer can also remove bubble in making thing with gelatin or jello. It is also used to intensifying marinade and even sucking out air in cooked food thereby bringing out the flavors.
Check it out here !
Meat thermometer! The ultimate man tool in the kitchen. This will resolve the uncooked center of the meat you are cooking.
Different scales of pots and pan. you could be just doing the sauce, a very small pan will get it cooking with less energy and volume. Multiple size pan is like a girl with different colour eye shadow !
Dimsum bamboo steam basket ! Different circumference, different height means different scales of humidity for different scale of food element !
There is so much more but I got distracted buying things like a girl in the beauty section and never want to leave.
TAKE CARE MY FELLOW MEN
NOTE [ I know these thing because I was a storeman in the army, and designed commercial kitchens at work] but you should too !
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