The Online Edition

Cooking with Kids
by Kate Heyhoe
Originally published as Cooking with Kids for Dummies
by IDG Books

 
 

---

 
 

---

 

Kids' Kitchen Tools and Pint-Size Equipment

 

You'll want to include these cookware essentials, shown in the photo, in your kid's cooking kit.

 

Young chefs cook best with their own personal set of tools.

• Measuring spoon set
• Measuring cups: one for dry ingredients and one for wet ingredients
• Wooden spoon
• Apron or large t-shirt
• Potholders and/or oven mitts
• Small knife (plastic, paring, or as appropriate for your child)
• Vegetable peeler
• Safety scissors
• Rubber spatula
• Small cutting board

After your young chef has a personal set of equipment, think about providing a permanent place for all these great tools. It can be just about any type of container, as long as it's easily accessible to the child and not stuck away in a closet piled under stacks of linens or other things. Here's a few suggestions for places in which to store your kid's cookware:

• A large, lower kitchen drawer
• An industrial-sized lunchbox, the kind used by construction workers
• A portable tool kit
• A cardboard file box, known as a banker's box
• A plastic storage box, with handles and lid

 

Assemble the items first (before deciding on a container), adding any equipment from your own kitchen that you want your child to have (like a melon baller, rolling pin, whisk, or other tools—see Chapter 3 for more ideas). Then, make sure that the area for your child's tools is large enough to hold all of the tools comfortably. When in doubt, go for a larger space than a smaller one, so that items aren't cramped and difficult to find

 

   Read the full article: Ten Items for Your Kid's Cookware Kit