10 Must Have Gadgets For Your Kitchen

Do you often get confused how to fill up your modern kitchen with some modern gadgets that is useful to you, and those gadgets that your kitchen crave for the most?

Then, here are some of the essential appliances for your kitchen. 

1. Milk Frother. With an increasing likability or appreciation for the various coffee drinks, like Cappuccino, there is an unmatched need for a Milk Frother in your kitchen. Get a nice cup of any of the coffee beverages for your guest with a yummy, foamy topping of frothed milk.
2. Pasta Machine. The pasta machine knead and shape pasta dough into many different varieties of fresh pasta. Both manual and electric models of pasta machine are available in the market. In manual machine, the user has to prepare the pasta dough by hand, which is then cut down to the right size and shape using the pasta machine. Whereas, the electrical pasta maker automate these processes. You just have to add the ingredients for the pasta dough to the machine, with no prior mixing. 
3. Bread Maker. The bread maker helps you prepare your perfect bread at home. Making bread with the bread machine is almost same as doing it by hand, except that the mixing, rising, and baking, all takes place within the machine.
4. Barbecue Grills. A barbecue grill cooks food by applying heat to it directly from below. There are a variety of grills available in the market, with most falling into one of the two categories – gas-fueled and charcoal. The grills are available are variable size, from small, single steak grills up to large, industrial sized restaurant grills which are able to cook enough meat to feed a hundred or more people. The recent gas grills come with with an infrared radiant burner to the back of the grill enclosure. This ensures even heat across the burner.
   Are you afraid if you miss the smoky flavor to the grilled foods if you use a gas grill? Then don’t be. The gas grills also come with a ‘smoker box’. The smoker box contains the wood chips and this is used by the gas grill to give a smoky flavor to the grilled foods.    
5. Deep Fryer. The Fryer is not a new appliance among the kitchen appliances. But, the modern fryer comes with a basket to raise the food clear of the oil when the frying is finished.
   The fryers also come up with features like, alarms, automatic devices to raise and lower the basket into the oil, measures to prevent food crumbs from being over-cooked, ventilation system to reduce frying odours, oil filters to increase the usable life of oil, and temperature controls. 
6. Water ionizer. A water ionizer is an appliance that ionizes water. The water ionizer, with the process of electrolysis, produces the alkaline water, which can be used for drinking and cooking purposes.
   The alkaline water is that water that as its pH level greater than
7. The alkaline water has many health benefits. It acts as an antioxidant, helping to prevent many diseases and slows down the formation of free radicals. Thus, the water ionizer asks for a very important place among your kitchen appliances. The water ionizer is usually attached to your kitchen zinc, and it comes with a filter that purifies your tap water to safe water before it converts it into alkaline water.
8. Food Thermometer. The food thermometer is a kind of thermometer to measure the internal temperature of any meat type. Cooking the food to the right temperature eliminates any kind of harmful bacteria from the food stuff. You can even use the food thermometer to check the temperature and prevent it from falling to the ‘danger zone’. For example, the danger zone for perishable food is between 40 degree and 140 degree Fahrenheit. The perishable food is not good to consume if they are in the danger zone temperature for more than two hours.
9. Knife sharpener. A knife sharpener is an inevitable tool in any kitchen. Mostly, it will be in the middle of some cooking that you notice that your cutting knife doesn’t have the needed sharpness to cut the food properly. In such a situation, it’s always the knife sharpener that comes at your rescue. A wide range of knife sharpeners is available in market, from commercial electric grinders to whetstones. Regular sharpening can extend the life of your blades.

Just take a look around your kitchen. What are those essential appliances that your kitchen miss? I am sure that your kitchen will be craving for at least some of the essential appliances I noted down here.

Maria McCarthy, an enthusiastic academician and health blogger, finds special interest in exploring and writing articles about health and nutrition. She also works for a wellness company named TyentUSA and is responsible for product quality assurance.