Setting Up Your Kitchen

Most furnished accommodation supplies basic kitchen equipment. All being well this will include a cooker with an oven and a fridge with either a freezer or freezing compartment.

Most students need to take their own crockery and cutlery, tea towels and washing up cloths. For cooking utensils, you don’t need much and you certainly don’t need expensive gadgets.

• Bowls – including one that’s microwave safe and big enough for mixing as well as jobs like scrambling eggs
• Chopping board
• Colander or large sieve for straining cooked vegetables, pasta or rice
• Draining spoon, long-handled, with holes in it
• Fish slice for lifting foods out of a frying pan or from a baking sheet
• Frying pan
• Grater
• Kettle and toaster (You could wait until you get to where you’re staying as you may find everyone else has them)
• Kitchen scissors
• Knives – vegetable knife, cook’s knife (for cutting meat) and bread knife
• Oven gloves
• Ovenproof dish
• Paperware – kitchen paper, foil and/or cling film
• Potato masher (use a fork if you don’t have one)
• Potato peeler (easier than a vegetable knife)
• Roasting tins
• Saucepans, ideally one small, one medium and one large, with lids
• Whisk – a balloon or wire one is ideal for making sauces etc.
• Wooden spoon