Lesson 3: Salads and dressings

• Grater / shredder:

  • Used to grate foods into fine pieces
  • Invented by Francois Boullier in the 1540s
• Mixing bowls are used to mix dressings, marinate ingredients, and hold separate elements for salad assembling
• Mise en place means "set in place" to have everything ready to cook, including tools, equipment, and utensils for preparing salads
• When using cutting boards for both meat and vegetables, it's crucial to use one board exclusively for vegetables and the other exclusively for raw meat to avoid cross-contamination
• Salad servers are "salad set" with big bowls and servers .  Used to grasp the ingredients for salad
• Peelers is a kitchen tool consisting a slotted metal blade attached to the handle. It is used to remove outer skin.
• Cutting board is a wooden board used for cutting food. Use one board exclusively for the vegetable and the other for the raw meat to avoid cross-contamination.
• Salad spinners is used to hold just washed salad leaves in a slotted basket that is made to spin by hand.
• Grill pan is used for salad toppings to be broiled or grilled.
• Knives are sharp, sturdy stainless steel blades.
• Citrus zesters is a curved metal end used to scrape the zest from citrus fruits.