7 Essential Kitchen Utensils For Home Baking

Source: DHgate, Tag: Home Garden

• Love baking? Check out these essential kitchen utensils for home bakers.

• Home baking has become much more than baking a cake using a dry packet mix from the local supermarket. Popular TV programmes made home baking, using all raw ingredients, trendy, but Covid lockdowns over the last two years have seen the popularity of baking soar with nine million taking up the pastime in the UK alone.
  With that in mind, a huge market has developed for home baking tools and utensils. Here are the top essential kitchen utensils for all those home bakers out there.

1. Stand Baking Mixer
Hands-free and versatile, a stand mixer is a prerequisite for anyone who bakes often and wants efficiency plus reliability. Here at DHgate, we offer a wide range of stand mixers for personal and catering use. The majority come with tools such as a dough hook to enable pastry making, a balloon whisk for items such as meringues, and a beater for creaming which is ideal for cake making. More powerful than a hand mixer, their variable speed controls help tackle light, fluffy egg whites to stiff bread doughs. A large easy-to-clean mixing bowl enables batch baking which is a great way to save money if you want to freeze items for unexpected guests or you’re in the catering industry. No longer in just white, many stand mixers come in various colours to match kitchen décor and satisfy personal taste.

2. Hand Mixer
If you’re an occasional baker or don’t have the space or cash for a stand mixer, a hand mixer is an answer. These super-nifty appliances can be tucked away into a kitchen drawer and are affordable for most.
If you’re looking for this vital ‘must have’, then look no further, DHgate has a wide range of hand mixers. They come in a variety of price ranges, and styles and are durable. They’re easy to clean, and store and are a go-to item for all things whisking and creaming. Featured is the 500w Candimill which has five-speed control and will cope with anything from stirring, to milkshakes to cake making. Along with a comfortable handle, it is great value for money.

3. Electronic Kitchen Scales
You can probably get away with not being accurate for a lot of cooking. Handfuls of veg in casseroles, leftover meats for pies but when it comes to cake making things need to be more precise. That’s where the electronic kitchen scales come into play. They are relatively inexpensive, compact and slim, (easily tucked away in a drawer) but are a ‘must have’ if you want great results.
Features include a host of measurements including - g, oz, lb, tl, kg, water ml, and milk ml, which makes them multifunctional for weighing an assortment of items up to 10kgs. They’re touch controlled with a LED screen and battery operated. With a zero and tare function and prompts to let you know when the scales are overloaded, and the battery is running low it’s another home baker essential.

Measures
We offer a range of measuring utensils to aid the baker, three fundamental ones are, jugs, cups and spoons.
Measuring Jugs - Traditionally the good old-fashioned pour in and hold up to see what you’ve measured ones are the most popular. They come in plastic, glass or stainless steel. There are, of course, electronic ones, but they’re another blog.
This conventional glass measuring jug is a great buy. It measures up to 2 cups, 16 ounces or 500mls. With a curved spout for precision pouring, so no drips, it is ideal for pouring liquid slowly to make a batter. It’s made from borosilicate glass which makes it usable in a dishwasher, microwave, freezer or preheated oven. Easy to clean, clearly marked and comfortable to handle.
Measuring Cups & Spoons – A lot of recipes ask for, ‘cup of’ or ‘half spoon of’, so it’s always useful to have a set of cup and spoon measures handy. They are relatively inexpensive and come in many different styles. You can buy these as separate sets or together like this one which consists of a set of ten measuring tools, five cups and five spoons, and comes complete with two removable snap rings for easy hanging and a great way of keeping them all together. Made from food-grade 430 stainless steel (FDA approved), making them strong, easy to clean and rustproof.
Each cup and spoon handle are clearly size marked plus the vibrant colour-coded silicone handles make size recognition effortless. Rigid stainless steel handles with soft silicone grip offer safety, being; anti-slip and preventing heat conduction. All the tools are dishwasher proof and suitable for wet and dry ingredients.

5. Spatulas & Baking Brushes
Silicone Spatula - Once you’ve made your cake batter, you’ll need to scrape the bowl and get as much as that homemade yumminess into the cake tin. For this, the best tool is a silicone spatula. Made from food-grade silicone, spatulas come in a variety of colours for personal choice and are dishwasher proof, heat resistant up to 500°F and won’t scratch surfaces so suitable for non-stick ware. Not only for scraping but perfect for folding and stirring too, it has a comfortable handle and there’s a little hole to hang it on your tool rack.
Pastry / Basting Brush - Glazing is important too, it’s the bit you do to make the pastry brown and shiny once baked. Unlike the wood and bristle pastry brushes, these silicone ones do not shed and leave their bristles once used for a time. Silicone bristles’ do not warp, discolour or shrink and are food-grade safe, withstanding temperatures up to 250°F. A rigid plastic handle means they can be washed easily and they come in a range of colours.

6. Cake Baking Tins
There are two types of cake tins, metal ones and silicone ones. They both come in many sizes and shapes. Which type you use is a completely personal preference.
At DHgate there is a vast selection of cake bakeware. Usually, to bake a sponge you’ll need a pair of 8” sandwich tins. The ones shown are non-stick, although greasing or using a parchment liner is recommended, for 100% surety to prevent sticking. They have a long life span and will easily wash in hot soapy water. With a removable bottom, it makes taking the sponge out easy. Being metal, heat is evenly distributed, aiding the cake to rise level.

7. Cupcake Muffin Tin & Liners
If it's cupcakes and muffins you’re looking to bake, then DH Gate’s range of bakeware and paper cases are the primary choice. It couldn’t be easier. Pop the paper muffin liner into the metal bakeware mould, fill it with your tasty homemade mixture and bake. Decorate cupcakes with piped icing when cool and serve with the liner still on.
Metal muffin bakeware tray is made from carbon steel, and non-stick coated but greasing or paper cases are advised for optimum results. Heat resistant to 230°F and washes in hot soapy water.
Tulip style paper cupcake/muffin liners are made from greaseproof parchment non-stick paper. They come in a whole range of colours and patterns, perfect for any occasion or celebration. Bio-degradable and environmentally friendly.