Utensil Sets

This Vogue 10-piece utensils set covers the everyday basics needed to equip a shared or single-occupancy kitchen from scratch. The set includes a practical mix of hand tools — tin and bottle openers, a vegetable peeler, and a selection of serving spoons — giving first-time cooks the essentials without the need to source individual items separately.

For the environments this set is intended for, it performs adequately. The pieces are straightforward to use and clean, and the set is priced to reflect its positioning as a starter kit rather than a professional toolkit. It is worth being clear that these utensils are not designed for high-volume or heavy commercial kitchen use — they are suited to light, everyday cooking in domestic-style settings.

• Covers multiple basic tasks from a single, low-cost purchase
• Straightforward to clean and store
• Suitable for inexperienced cooks with no prior kitchen setup
• Compact enough for small kitchens with limited drawer space
• Consistent Vogue build quality at an entry-level price point

There are no installation requirements — the set is ready to use immediately. It is worth noting that the set is not suitable as a replacement for professional-grade smallwares in a commercial catering environment; operators fitting out staff kitchens or back-of-house breakrooms may find it acceptable for light use, but a more durable range would be more appropriate for regular heavy use.

This set is well suited to student accommodation, university halls, and similar shared living situations where a low-cost, functional starting point is the priority. If you are fitting out multiple rooms or have broader catering smallwares requirements, it may be worth a conversation with the team to discuss what else might be needed.

This Hygiplas set brings together three colour-coded red utensils — a pair of tongs, a chopping board, and a cook's knife — designed for use with raw meat as part of a kitchen colour-coding system. All three items carry the same red designation, making them straightforward to identify and assign correctly during food preparation.

In a busy kitchen, the value of colour-coding lies in how reliably it prevents cross-contamination. When utensils are visually distinctive and consistently assigned to a single food category, the system works without relying on staff to remember verbal instructions. This set keeps that logic simple: red items stay with raw meat, and the colour is consistent across all three pieces.

• Tongs with an ambidextrous grip, suitable for extended use during service
• Cook's knife with a stainless steel blade for everyday meat preparation tasks
• Colour-matched chopping board maintains the red coding across the full workstation
• Tongs are dishwasher safe, supporting routine hygiene cleaning
• Compact set that covers the core utensils needed at a raw meat prep station

This set is well suited to smaller kitchens establishing or refreshing a colour-coding system, and to operations that want a straightforward, matched bundle rather than sourcing individual items separately. It works equally well as a replacement set where individual pieces have been lost or damaged. Kitchens running a higher volume of raw meat preparation may find they need multiple sets to support several prep stations simultaneously.

If you are building out a full colour-coding system across multiple food categories, or have questions about which items your kitchen is required to code under food safety guidelines, the team is happy to talk it through.

This three-piece set from Hygiplas brings together the core utensils needed to handle cooked meats safely within a colour-coded kitchen system. It includes a pair of stainless tongs, a high-density chopping board, and a folding probe thermometer — all in yellow, the recognised colour coding for cooked meats under most HACCP-aligned systems used in UK commercial kitchens.

Colour coding at this level of specificity matters in busy services. When multiple proteins are being prepped or plated simultaneously, having tongs, boards, and thermometers that are immediately identifiable reduces the risk of cross-contamination and removes ambiguity for kitchen staff working at pace. It also makes compliance checks and staff training more straightforward.

• Yellow coding aligned to cooked meat HACCP categories
• Tongs suit extended use with an ambidextrous grip and dishwasher-safe construction
• High-density board handles daily commercial chopping and slicing
• Folding probe thermometer stores safely and reads across a wide temperature range
• Compact set easy to introduce into an existing colour-coded system

The board is sized practically for counter and pass use, and the tongs are robust enough for regular service rather than light-duty tasks. The thermometer's fold-away probe reduces the chance of damage during storage, which is a common issue with fixed-probe models in busy kitchens.

This set suits small to medium operations establishing or reinforcing a colour-coded system — cafés, pub kitchens, care catering, and contract sites. Kitchens running a full multi-colour system across all protein categories may want to consider purchasing matching sets across the other colour groups to maintain consistency. If you're building out a complete colour-coded setup or are unsure which items your site requires, feel free to get in touch — we're happy to talk it through.

The Hygiplas Allergy Awareness Bundle is a complete set of colour-coded kitchen tools intended solely for use when preparing or handling allergen-containing ingredients. Every item in the bundle is purple — the recognised colour designation for allergen use — covering the key tasks a kitchen team would carry out during service: chopping, cutting, portioning, cooking, and temperature checking.

In a busy commercial kitchen, the risk of cross-contamination comes as much from shared equipment as it does from shared preparation surfaces. A dedicated tool set removes the need to rely on visual checks or verbal reminders during service. Staff can identify allergen-specific equipment at a glance, which is particularly important in high-pressure periods when communication becomes harder and the margin for error narrows.

The bundle covers the practical range of tasks involved in allergen-aware cooking:

• Dedicated chopping board for allergen ingredient prep
• Cook's knife, bread knife, serrated pastry knife, and paring knife — all purple-handled
• Serving tong and scissors for handling and portioning
• Pizza wheel for allergen-specific pastry or dough work
• Frypan for isolated cooking away from shared pans
• EasyTemp digital thermometer for safe temperature monitoring
• Colour-coded wall chart for staff reference and allergen awareness training support

This bundle is well suited to any catering operation required to manage the fourteen major allergens under UK food safety legislation — including restaurants, cafés, school kitchens, care homes, and contract catering sites. It provides a practical starting point for allergen segregation, though it works best as part of a broader allergen management policy rather than as a standalone solution.

If you're putting together allergen protocols across a larger team or multiple preparation areas, it's worth having a conversation with us about what else may be needed to support a consistent approach.

The Mercer Culinary 6 Piece Chef Plating Kit is a matched set of hand tools designed for precision plating in professional kitchens. The set brings together a saucier spoon with spout, a slotted plating spoon, a solid plating spoon, offset tongs, curved-tip tongs, and straight tongs — covering the most common plating tasks from controlled sauce work through to the careful placement of garnishes, micro-greens, and fine herbs. A heavy-duty storage roll is included to keep the set together and protected, whether it lives on the pass or travels between sites.

Each tool is built from 18-8 stainless steel with machined finger grips, which provide a consistent, predictable hold during close, controlled work. That consistency matters during high-covers service, where plating speed and repeatability directly affect the standard that reaches the pass.

The set is well suited to kitchens where chefs are actively building or maintaining a plated presentation standard:

• Sauce placement — quenelles, swooshes, and dot work with the saucier spoon
• Delicate garnish positioning using the curved-tip tongs
• Lifting and placing proteins or structured elements with the straight and offset tongs
• Repeatable results across a full service without tool changes

There are no installation requirements. The stainless steel construction cleans down quickly and holds up to regular commercial dishwasher use without degrading. The roll bag keeps the set compact for storage or transport, which is practical for private dining teams or chefs working across more than one venue.

This is a practical starting point for kitchens building out a plating toolkit. For teams with more specialist needs — extended tweezers, additional spoon profiles, or larger-format tools — it is worth a conversation about what else might complement the set. We are happy to talk through what tends to work well in practice.