dish

en-noun

dish (countable and uncountable, plural dishes)

Tok Pisin: dis

From Middle English dissh, disch, from Old English disċ (“plate; bowl; dish”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“table; dish”) (whence also Proto-Slavic *dъska, whence Bulgarian дъска́ (dǎská), Polish deska, Russian доска́ (doská)), Russian чан (čan)) from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, disk, and diskos.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots disch (“dish; plate”), Dutch dis (“table”), German Low German Disk, Disch (“table”), German Tisch (“table”), Danish disk (“dish; counter”), Swedish disk (“dish; counter”), Icelandic diskur (“dish; plate”), Finnish tiski (“desk, counter; dish”).
Compare the identical meaning expansion (vessel for food, then also content of such a vessel, then also specific type of food): Bulgarian блю́до (bljúdo), Russian блю́до (bljúdo). For the roundness aspect compare Polish rondel (“pan, saucepan”) (< Latin rotundus (whence also English round)).

doublet

It's your turn to wash the dishes.

en:in the plural, dirty dishes needing cleaning

(in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.


spider

en-noun

spider (countable and uncountable, plural spiders)

[ˈspʌɪ̯ɾə(ɹ)]

From Middle English spiþre, spydyr, spider, spiþer, from Old English spīþra (“spider”), from Proto-West Germanic *spinþrijō, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną (“to spin”). Mostly displaced attercop (“spider, unpleasant person”), now a dialectal term.

(sports) The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.


grater

I'm making coleslaw; do you know where the grater is?

As she ran on her numerous errands Jessamy found that if she did not stop to think, she knew all kinds of odd little things that the other Jessamy must have learned, such as where the nutmeg grater lived, and which was the potato peeling knife.

1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 115:

a tool with which one grates, especially foods such as cheese, to facilitate getting small particles or shreds off a solid lump


zester

A kitchen implement used to remove the zest of citrus fruit.


paddle

paddle (countable and uncountable, plural paddles)

→ Danish: paddel, padle

Partly from the verb paddle ("to splash, dabble"; see below) and partly from Middle English padell (“small spade”).
Middle English padell is from Medieval Latin padela, itself of uncertain origin: perhaps an alteration of Middle English *spaddle (see also spaddle), a diminutive of spade; or from Latin patella (“pan, plate”), the diminutive of patina, or a merger of the two. Compare Ancient Greek πηδάλιον (pēdálion, “rudder, steering oar”), derived from πηδός (pēdós, “the blade of an oar; an oar”).

cog

(video games, dated) A game controller with a round wheel used to control player movement along one axis of the video screen.


tableware

en-noun

tableware (countable and uncountable, plural tablewares)

With years of research and observation under her belt, Yao set to work creating and perfecting Eatwell, an assistive tableware set designed specially for patients with cognitive impairments like Alzheimer’s.

2015 September 3, Christi Scott, “Tableware designed for Alzheimer’s patients”, in CNN:

Nearly 200 chemicals connected to breast cancer are used in the making of food packaging and plastic tableware, and dozens of those carcinogens can migrate into the human body, a new study found.

2024 September 24, Sandee LaMotte, “Chemicals linked to breast cancer leach into our foods, study finds”, in CNN:

The cutlery, crockery and glassware used in setting a table for a meal.


spatula

spatula (plural spatulas or spatulae or spatulæ)

spatulas (plural)
spatulae (plural)
spatulæ (plural)

/ˈspæt͡ʃʊlə/

/ˈspæt͡ʃələ/

Borrowed from Latin spatula (“a flat piece”), the diminutive form of spatha (“broad or flat tool”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “a broad wood or metal blade”). Doublet of spauld; compare spatha and spathe.

der

(cooking) A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.


turner

From Middle English turner, torner, tornere, turnere, turnare, equivalent to turn + -er. Also from Middle English turnour, tornour, tournour, turnoure, from Old French tornour, tourneour, tourneur, tornëor (“one who fashions something by turning”).

A kitchen utensil used for turning food.


salt shaker

So she cut the crusts from a pair of chicken sandwiches and set them on a tray along with a saltshaker, a white peach, and a King James bible, and I climbed the stairs to his room.

1995, Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys, Ch.1, at p.4

A small container designed to hold salt and facilitate sprinkling it on food for seasoning purposes.

رَشَّاشَةْ الْمِلْح

a small container designed to hold salt and facilitate sprinkling


china

en-noun

china (countable and uncountable, plural chinas)

chinas (plural)
China (alternative)
chiney (alternative)
cheny (alternative)
cheney (alternative)
chenea (alternative)
chainy (alternative)
chaney (alternative)
chany (alternative)
chaynee (alternative)
chayney (alternative)
cheenie (alternative)
cheeny (alternative)
chainé (alternative)

From clippings of attributive use of China, q.v., the country in East Asia. In reference to porcelain and porcelain objects, via clipping of chinaware and via this sense of Persian چین (čini) in Persia and India, which influenced the pronunciation (see below). In reference to medicine, via clipping of China root. In reference to flowers, via clipping of China rose. In reference to tea, via clipping of China tea. In Cockney slang, a clipping of china plate as a rhyme of mate (“friend”). In reference to drum cymbals, a clipping of China cymbal and as a genericization of a kind of Zildjian-brand cymbal.

They sell Callicoes, Cheney Sattin, Cheney ware.

1634, Thomas Herbert, A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, page 41:

...a Present of certain very rich Pieces of China.

1653, Henry Cogan translating Fernão Mendes Pinto as The Voyages and Adventures of Fernand Mendez Pinto, p. 206

He set the table with china, cloth napkins, and crystal stemware.

The traditional 20th anniversary gift is china.

(uncountable) Chinaware: porcelain tableware.


draining board

A board beside a kitchen sink, designed to drain into the sink, used for letting kitchen utensils dry after they had been washed.

сушилник

board beside a kitchen sink for draining kitchen utensils


apple-corer

apple-corers (plural)
apple corer (alternative)

A tool used to remove the apple core from an apple for use in cooking; some forms of the tool segment the apple at the same time as removing its core.


tea strainer

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A strainer used to filter loose tea leaves from brewed tea.


cheesecloth

cheesecloth (countable and uncountable, plural cheesecloths)

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A loosely woven cotton gauze, originally used to wrap cheese, but now used for various culinary tasks and by farmers to shade crops and keep birds off.


colander

colanders (plural)
cullender (alternative)
collinder (alternative)

From Middle English colyndore, coloundour, colonur, variants of Middle English culdor, culdore, culatre, ultimately from Latin cōlātōrium, from Latin cōlum. Cognates include Italian colino and Spanish colador.

An electric fire came next, followed by an umbrella and then a colander. "This bowl will carry no water," he muttered. "Some loon hath pierced it with holes."

1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 67:

A bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food that has been cooking in water, such as pasta.

مِصْفَاة

a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta


tureen

From earlier terrene (thus pronunciations with /tj/, /t͡ʃ/ are spelling pronunciations), borrowed from French terrine. Doublet of terrine.

The tureens and stands are variously marked with the date letters for 1726 and 1728, with the charge and discharge marks for the fermier-générals Charles Condier (1722-1726) and Jacques Cortin (1726-1732) and with their weights.

1983, Gillian Wilson, Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum, page 22:

But the metal tureen cannot just have been an import from the eastern Mediterranean area or from the Carpathian basin, because the style horizon of the Tiefstich pottery tureens with pendant triangles on the shoulder did not penetrate as far as that, nor do we know of any vessels there, pottery or precious metal ones, which show a similarity with these.

2009, Jan Albert Bakker, The TRB West Group: Studies in the Chronology and Geography of the Makers of Hunebeds and Tiefsttich Pottery, page 125:

The large covered soup tureen, as well as the 15 inch round plate on which it sat, was rimmed by gold leaf, and was decorated with an ornate nineteenth century English scene.

2011, Paul Winick, Cancer Dreams, page 95:

A broad, deep serving dish used for serving soup or stew.

су́пник

broad deep serving dish for soup or stew


coaster

Hollywood Dream – The Ride
Universal Studios Japan

From coast (“to glide along without adding energy; to make a minimal effort; to slide downhill (especially, to slide on a sled upon snow or ice)”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Coast is derived from Middle English costeien (“to travel along a border or coast; to go alongside (something), skirt; to accompany, follow; to travel across, traverse; to be adjacent to, to border;”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman [Term?], Old French costoier (“to be at the side of”) [and other forms] (modern French côtoyer (“to pass alongside; (figuratively) to rub shoulders”)), from Latin costicāre, from costa (“rib; side, wall”); see further at etymology 1.
The sense 2.1 (“small stand or tray”) is from the fact that the object and the decanter or wine bottle on it “coast” or travel around a tabletop from person to person. The sense 2.2.2 (“useless compact disc or DVD”) refers to the fact that the object is only useful as a drink coaster.

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cost, costay, coste, costey, costie, coost, coostie, costen, costien

kelkka

something that coasts or is used to coast

Something that coasts or is used to coast.

A small, flat or tray-like object on which a bottle, cup, glass, mug, etc., is placed to protect a table surface from drink spills, heat, or water condensation.

падста́ўка

small object on which a cup, etc., is placed to protect a table surface

подста́вка

бутылку, кружку, под стакан


pizza cutter

A wheel-bladed knife used for cutting pizzas.


pepper shaker

pepper shakers (plural)
peppershaker (alternative)

A small container designed to hold pepper and facilitate sprinkling it on food for seasoning purposes.

պղպեղաման

a small container designed to hold pepper and facilitate sprinkling it


fish slice

Would you pass me that fish slice, please; I'm making a mess trying to turn this omelette.

Truly the sign of an evolved person who has their shit together is that they’ve graduated beyond using a fish slice for everything (which they erroneously call a spatula).

2023 January 28, Justin Myers, “62 dating green flags that shout ‘this one’s a keeper’”, in The Guardian:

(British) A kitchen utensil used to turn foodstuffs (commonly, burgers and omelettes) in a frying pan; a spatula.


rolling pin

rolling pins (plural)
rolling-pin (alternative)

A food preparation utensil consisting of a cylinder with a handle at each end, used to flatten dough.


food processor

To make nut roast, you have to blitz the nuts in a food processor.

A small kitchen appliance for chopping or pureeing food.


kitchenware

en-noun

kitchenware (usually uncountable, plural kitchenwares)

The new chef reorganized the space where we keep the pots, pans, and other kitchenware.

He works in the kitchenware section of the department store.

The kitchenware company, which for decades dominated the world of food storage, since 2020 had warned of doubt in its ability to stay in business.

2024 September 18, Eliza Ronalds-Hannon, “Tupperware Files for Bankruptcy Amid Declining Sales and Growing Competition”, in Time:

Instruments and utensils found in a kitchen, particularly those associated with the preparation and serving of food.

съдове за готвене

instruments and utensils found in a kitchen


egg whisk

egg whisks (plural)
eggwhisk (alternative)

A whisk (kitchen utensil made of multiple loops of wire) used to beat eggs.


skimmer

A device that skims.
A sieve-like, slotted spoon.


chinaware

chinaware (countable and uncountable, plural chinawares)

chinawares (plural)
china-ware (alternative)
china ware (alternative)

Alternative case form of Chinaware, China-ware, &c., from China + -ware.

According to the Japanese writer, the two first-named mountains and hills, besides several other places up and down Hizen, is made Japanese porcelain or chinaware out of a whitish fat clay, which is found there in great plenty.

1881, George Ashdown Audsley, Keramic Art of Japan, page 148:

So I turned my attention to setting up my new home, arranging the furniture and displaying Rita's sparkling glass and chinaware on the sideboard.

1996, Rina De'firenze, Mystery of the Mona Lisa:

This book includes a systematic examination of chinawares in over a thousand documented estates from the seaport communities of Salem, Boston, Newport, New York, and Philadelphia from 1690 to 1770.

2011, Caroline Frank, Objectifying China, Imagining America: Chinese Commodities in Early America:


oven glove

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A heatproof glove designed to carry hot things to or from an oven.

ку́хненска ръкави́ца f (kúhnenska rǎkavíca, literally “kitchen glove”)


piping bag

A cloth bag shaped like a cone with a small hole at the tapered end, used with a metal (or similar) nozzle for squeezing out decorative icing and other pastes in cooking.


melon ball scooper

melon ball scooper (plural melon ball scoopers)

A kind of scooper or spoon with small hemispherical head which is useful for scooping round pieces of melon, watermelon, etc.


platter

From Middle English plater, from Anglo-Norman plater, dissimilatory variant of platel, from Old French plate (“metal plate”) (see plate). Doublet of plateau.

(computing) One of possibly many disks on which data is stored in a mechanical hard drive.


deep fryer

deep fryers (plural)
deep frier (alternative)
deep-frier (alternative)
deepfrier (alternative)
deep-fryer (alternative)
deepfryer (alternative)

A heated vessel for frying food by immersing in hot oil, as opposed to shallow frying in a frying pan.


cheese slicer

A kitchen instrument used for slicing cheese.


ashet

From the Scots form of French assiette. Doublet of assiette.

A large, shallow, oval dish used for serving food.


pastry bag

A flexible bag from which icing is forced through a small nozzle to make various designs of piping.


butter curler

A kitchen tool designed to produce decorative butter shapes for use in food decoration.


napkin ring

The boy set up his napkin ring.

A ring for holding napkins along with cutlery.


serving dish

A plate or dish or platter used to hold food to be served during a meal, but not used in cooking.

плато

dish used to hold food to be served during a meal


oven mitt

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kitchen knife

кухненски нож

typical knife for preparing food — see also chef's knife


cow creamer

cow creamers (plural)
cow-creamer (alternative)

A traditional creamer (jug) in the shape of a cow.


cake plate

cake plates (plural)
cakeplate (alternative)
cake-plate (alternative)


salad spinner

A tool using centrifugal force to wash and dry salad


slotted spoon

Using a slotted spoon, remove the peel and nuts from the syrup; set aside.

2013 February 17, Anissa Helou, The Observer:

A large spoon with slots in it used to drain food.


disher

A type of scoop with a lever that helps the user dig through hard substances such as ice cream.


ice cream scoop

ice cream scoop (plural ice cream scoops)

A handheld scoop with a lever that helps the user dig through hard substances, most commonly cold ice cream.


dipper well

A small sink with a constant flow of water, used to store utensils used in food preparation and prevent bacterial growth.


Japanese mandoline

Japanese mandoline (plural Japanese mandolines)

A type of kitchen tool used for slicing vegetables, distinguished from a traditional ("French") mandoline by having a diagonal blade and generally being smaller and of lighter construction.


pizza pan

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A pan specialized for making US-style pizzas, similar to a pie pan, cookie sheet, or paella pan, frequently with a perforated bottom. (in making an Italian pizza, the flattened dough is placed directly on the floor of the oven)


air fryer

air fryers (plural)
airfryer (alternative)

A genericized trademark of Airfryer, a brand name introduced by Philips in 2010.


pancake turner

Use the pancake turner to flip to the other side, adding more oil if necessary, and continue cooking until set in the center but still slightly juicy within.

2014, Penelope Casas, 1,000 Spanish Recipes, page 125:

(US) A spatula; fish slice; kitchen turner; cooking turner.


tea ball

tea balls (plural)
teaball (alternative)

When using a tea ball, fill it to one-half full with tea leaves, leaving enough room in it for the leaves to expand.

1995, Campbell Dawn, The Tea Book, Pelican Publishing, →ISBN, page 84:

A perforated spherical metal container that holds tea leaves for steeping or brewing in hot water.


honing steel

honing steel (countable and uncountable, plural honing steels)

A rod of steel, ceramic or diamond-coated steel used to restore keenness to dulled blade edges.


suferia

From Swahili [Term?], some consider it an example of translanguaging.

I started coffee as Philip stirred breakfast to keep the eggs from burning on the bottom of the thin aluminum suferia (cooking put).

2009 May 27, Anthony Deland, Houses of Clay: A White Boy's Adventure in Africa, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, →ISBN, pages 37–38:

They kept watch, boiled chai in the suferia, and tried, constantly to make Simi open her mouth to drink, to swallow, to take the small sustenance that the sugar and tea and milk might give her.

2018 March 20, Adrienne Benson, The Brightest Sun: A Novel, Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN:

I peered inside and saw a pile of belongings—should sacks, tattered clothing, a towel, a wooden box, a suferia (cooking pot), plastic mugs and plates, straw mats and hats—the worldly goods of the poor.

2020 January 28, Mahmood Mamdani, When Victims Become Killers:Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 3:

I am from Togo born after Communism / the sound of donuts frying in the morning / and oatmeal being stirred over the fire and under the stars / in the extra large suferia

2020 October 19, Amanda Nicole Gulla, Molly Hamilton Sherman, Inquiry-Based Learning Through the Creative Arts for Teachers and Teacher Educators, Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, page 102:

A type of cooking pot popular in East Africa.

Springer International Publishing
W.W. Norton


cocktail shaker

cocktail shaker (plural cocktail shakers)

A device used to mix beverages (usually alcoholic) by shaking.