Meat Cooking Tools

An attelet is an inedible garnish for dishes. It consists of a thin metal skewer, usually silver or gold plated. It is sharply pointed at one end for sticking into food; the other end has a decorative top. Themes for the decoration include hunting,...

Meat mallets are used to flatten and tenderize meat. They look somewhat like a hammer, except that the end is rectangular, is much larger than a hammer head, and has a very flat striking surface on one end of it, and protuberances or small spiked-dimples...

Meat tenderizer in cooking is a term referring to something to make a tough cut of meat more tender to the bite. The item referred to by the term can be a chemical "tool", or a physical one. Chemical meat tenderizers A chemical meat tenderizer...

A meatballer is a kitchen tool used to form balls of ground meat. Most people form meat balls by hand. Reasons given for using a meatballer tool instead include that the meat mixture can be messy to stick your hands into, that it can get stuck...

A rotisserie is a device for slowly turning meat over a source of heat, allowing the meat to cook slowly and evenly. It consists of a spit, some prongs to help affix meat to the spit and a motor to turn the spit.

Non-electrical rotisseries were mechanical devices used before the advent of electricity to turn meat while cooking over a fire.

Skewers are formed sticks with points on each end used to skewer together chunks of meat, vegetable and seafood meant for cooking together -- typically, over an open flame, and typically, in order to make kebabs. They may be made of wood, or metal....

A spit is a large sharp metal rod stuck through a piece of meat or through a whole animal to cook it slowly over low heat, usually from a bed of coals, though in modern times it can also be gas flame or electric heat.

Turkey lacers are thin needles about 11 cm (4 1/2 inches) long that are sharply pointed at one end with a large eye hook at the other end. They are used in combination with thin butcher string to close and hold shut the neck cavity of poultry that...

A vertical chicken roaster is a stand that is used to prop a chicken vertically upright while it is being roasted. It allows a more even crisping of the chicken on all sides. It also prevents a chicken from lying flat in all the fat collecting in the...