Cooking utensils

Cooking utensils cover an extremely wide range of implements, used in environments from personal cooking to large commercial food production.

Cookware and bakeware

Cookware and bakeware are the containers in which food is placed for cooking operations involving the application of heat. There are a very wide range of such utensils, which vary with the intended cooking method, the nature of the food being prepared and materials with which it could react, etc.

Cutting implements

Broadly, this encompasses not just pure cutting as is done with cooking knives, but mechanical devices such as food processors and blenders at the small kitchen level, up to large industrial buffalo choppers and meat grinders.

Manipulative implements

One can think of this class as including:

• Things that turn pieces of food: spatulas, kitchen tongs, etc.
• Things that lift volumes of foods: ladles, cooking spoons
• Things that mix or form food, or separate parts of the cooking output: whisks, potato ricers, meat tenderizers, potato mashers, colanders