Prepare Dessert

• Dessert


  A sweet course or dish usually served at the end of a meal, derived from the French verb "desservir" meaning "to clear the table"
• Tools, equipment, and utensils needed

  • Measuring cup
  • Mixing bowl
  • Cans, bottles, and cartons opener
  • Cutting board
  • Double boiler
  • Funnels
  • Graters
  • Kitchen knives
  • Spatula
  • Citrus knife
  • Paring knife
  • Kitchen shears
  • Scraper
  • Spoons
  • Temperature scales
  • Vegetable peeler
  • Whisk
  • Wooden spoons
  • Baking pan
• Measuring cup


  • Used for dry ingredients
  • Glass measuring cup is for liquid
  • Measuring spoon is for small quantity
• Mixing bowl


  • Used for mixing ingredients
  • Comes in different sizes
• Cans, bottles, and cartons opener


  • Used to open food tin
  • Smooth operation
• Cutting board


  • Where fruits and vegetables can be cut
• Double boiler


  • Used when temperatures must be kept boiling
• Funnels


  • Used to fill jars
• Graters


  • Used to grate, shred, slice and separate foods
• Types of kitchen knives

  • Cook/chef's knife
  • Fruit and salad knife
  • Citrus knife
  • Paring knife
• Fruit and salad knife


  • Used to prepare salad greens, vegetables and fruits
• Spatula


  • Used to level off ingredients
• Citrus knife


  • Used to section citrus fruits (the blade has two sided, serrated blade)
• Paring knife


  • Used to core, peel, and section fruits and vegetables
• Kitchen shears


  • Practical for opening food packages
• Scraper


  • A tool to blend or scrape food from the bowl
• Spoons


  • Used to spoon liquids over tools to lift foods
• Temperature scales


  • Used to measure heat intensity
• Vegetable peeler


  • Used to scrape vegetables
• Whisk


  • Used for whipping eggs or batter and for blending
• Wooden spoons


  • Used for creaming, stirring and mixing
• Baking pan


  • Necessary for baking
• Refrigerators/Freezers


  Necessary in preventing bacterial infection
• Range


  Cooking food
• Mixers


  Used for mixing, creaming, beating, and whipping ingredients
• Blender


  Used to chop, blend mix and whip
• note: Never use a piece of equipment until you are thoroughly familiar with its operation and features
• Equipment's/ Complicated tools:

  • Refrigerators/ Freezers
  • Range
  • Mixers
  • Blender
• Different reason why we eat dessert

  • Eating Dessert is an opportunity to experience different flavors and textures.

  • Dessert balances out a meal - gives "closure" to the meal.

  • Dessert can be an opportunity to be creative.

  • It is romantic

  • Dessert isn't "flattering"

  • It will make you feel like a kid again.