What is a kitchen?

A kitchen is where people prepare meals for themselves or for other people. The parts of a kitchen are the laundry room, prep areas, bread room, storage room, meat room, dining room, and office.

Different parts of a kitchen

-The pantry (washing area, is where utensils, pots and pans are washed).

-The prep area is where you prepare food. Vegetable preparation (where vegetables, carrots and cabbage, etc. are prepared) meat room (where only meat is prepared)

-The bread room, the bakery prep area, the bakery (where all the cakes, tarts and rolls are baked). The warehouse (where all the food is stored).

-The main kitchen is where the hot side of the stoves, refrigerators and tables are located.

-The office is (from where the manager and supervisor work).

-Use of equipment on a kitchen stove, where main meals are cooked, refrigerator-freezers (where cold or frozen foods, cold foods, and prepared foods are stored).

-Mixers that you use to beat and mix cakes.

Food preparation.

Food preparation can vary depending on the business you work for. You can prepare everything from vegetables to meat once you have a large freezer and the staff. You can prepare and store in bulk by making sure to use the FIFO, first in, first out method.

Safe food preparation

Food preparation must be safe to produce food free from foodborne illness. Food can easily become contaminated. Leaving food uncovered for even a short time may not seem harmful, but in that time, flies can crawl into food and lay their eggs. You can’t see fly eggs with the naked eye, but after digesting your food within a couple of hours, you may feel bad.

Everyone loves salads, but salads are one of the most dangerous foods and one of the most easily contaminated. Leaving salads that have mayonnaise or salad dressing uncooled can be potentially dangerous.

Leaving salads at room temperature generates toxins. The incubation period is 1 to 6 (that is, 1 to 6 hours after eating the food you will get sick). There will be no fever, just a slight stomach ache.

In the incubation period, which is 6-72 hours, bacteria invade the tissues and there is fever. There is also vomiting and diarrhea, you must treat these symptoms or they can result in death.

Personnel in a kitchen for a food establishment: manager, supervisors, cooks, cook preparers, general workers and porters.