There are a few more miscellaneous tools that you will find to be essential in your kitchen. One tool that I didn’t start using until culinary school is a bench knife. Now it is one of my most-used kitchen tools for things like cutting dough, transferring items to baking sheets, smoothing icing on a cake, and cleaning scraps of dough off my counter.
- Oven thermometer
- Rolling pin
- Cooling rack
- Pastry blender
- * Bench knife
- * Bowl scraper
- * Pastry brush
- * Offset spatula
- * Portioning scoops (a.k.a. dishers): 1 oz./30 ml for cookies, 1.5 oz./45 ml for cupcakes, muffins, and ice cream
- * Muffin/cupcake liners
- Parchment paper or silicone baking mats
- Plastic wrap
- * Candy thermometer
- * Fine mesh sieve