Even a beginning chef can prepare healthy meals skillfully and efficiently from scratch, if he or she has the right small appliances. In this video, cookbook author and culinary instructor Paulette Mitchell offers advice on selecting the best kitchen appliances, showing how to use them while demonstrating simple, delicious recipes-including a banana-berry smoothie, a sunshine carrot salad, and a tuna melt. Viewers learn the importance of reading owners' manuals and properly caring for appliances such as blenders, mixers, food processors, slow cookers, electric grills, toasters and toaster ovens, and more.

Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on March 28, 2013. Learn360 is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.

About Small Kitchen Appliances (1:45) -- All about Blenders (2:40) -- Food Processors (4:10) -- Kitchen Toasters (3:01) -- Kitchen Mixers (1:40) -- Coffee and Tea Appliances (1:27) -- Rice Cookers (1:01) -- Microwaves and Slow Cookers (2:25) -- Kitchen Grills (3:33) -- Kitchen Fire Extinguishers (0:58) -- Other Small Kitchen Appliances (2:21) -- Credits: Small Kitchen Appliances (0:35).