Garnishing Tools

Garnish Tools for Chefs: What You Need to Know

Whether you're crafting showstopping entrees in an upscale restaurant, adding the final touches to displays at a catered event, or preparing premium desserts for an elegant dining room, garnishing tools are affordable, effective solutions for expanding the types of garnishes you're able to add to your plated meals. Garnishing tool sets may include several different tools or provide more than one size of the same effect, enabling chefs to quickly decorate plates with two sauces or add spiralized vegetables in more than one size to add visual interest.

Common Questions About Garnishing Tools

How can I transform my garnishes?

Although they may require some hands-on prep work, many garnishes that can look quite complicated are simple to produce – as long as you have the right food garnishing tools.

• Garnishing Spoon: These are shaped with a curled tip that controls the flow of the liquid held in the spoon. Chefs can easily decorate plates by dispensing sauces, creams, and purees in various designs, including small and large dots, swirls, and letters.
• Vegetable Sharpener: To replicate floral garnishes that will add flavor profiles as well as pleasing visual components, employ a vegetable sharpener. These garnishing tools peel cucumbers, carrots, and other vegetables into ribbons that can be formed to resemble flowers.
• Twister: Looking for an edible alternative to the traditional ramekin? A twister, as its name suggests, is a garnishing tool that twists into fruits and vegetables to remove their core, creating a hollow vessel that can be used to serve everything from sauces to bite-sized desserts.
• Vegetable Curler: Beets, carrots, potatoes, and other firm vegetables can be spiralized with a vegetable curler. These garnishing tools turn otherwise boring bits of vegetable into visually interesting decorations that can be twisted together, placed on skewers, or placed alongside meals and appetizers.