KITCHEN SAFETY
A cook uses this method to safely remove a small grease fire by cutting off its oxygen supply.
What is smothering the fire with a lid or fire blanket?
This knife is primarily designed for precision tasks such as peeling, trimming, and small cuts.
What is a paring knife?
Cooking food in a small amount of fat over relatively high heat is called this.
What is sautéing?
This reaction creates the browning and complex flavors associated with seared meat, toasted bread, and roasted foods.
What is the Maillard reaction?
Convert 3 cups into fluid ounces.
What is 24 fluid ounces?
A cutting board is used for raw chicken and then immediately used to slice tomatoes for a salad.
Name the food safety violation.
What is cross-contamination?
This cut is typically a small cube measuring approximately ¼ inch on each side.
What is a medium dice?
This moist-heat cooking method involves cooking food completely submerged in liquid at a temperature below boiling.
What is simmering or poaching, depending on temperature and application?
When an egg white changes from clear and liquid to white and solid during cooking, this process is occurring.
What is protein denaturation and coagulation?
A recipe produces 12 servings but needs to produce 30.
What is the conversion factor?
What is 2.5?
A cook washes their hands, puts on gloves, touches raw chicken, and then continues preparing a sandwich without changing gloves.
What is the major mistake?
What is using contaminated gloves and failing to change them between tasks?
A student is cutting carrots but repeatedly lifts the knife completely off the cutting board between cuts.
Identify the more efficient professional technique.
What is the rock chop?
A tough cut of meat is first browned and then slowly cooked in a small amount of liquid in a covered container.
What is braising?
A sauce made from oil and vinegar separates after sitting.
A chef adds an ingredient to help the two substances remain combined.
This is called creating a ______.
What is an emulsion?
A recipe requires 2 tablespoons of an ingredient.
You need to make 4 times the recipe.
How many fluid ounces are required?
What is 4 fluid ounces?
2 Tbsp × 4 = 8 Tbsp = 4 fl oz.
Place these steps in the correct order:
A. Apply soap
B. Dry hands
C. Wet hands
D. Scrub for at least 20 seconds
E. Rinse
What is C → A → D → E → B?
A recipe calls for vegetables to be julienned.
Describe the shape of the final cut.
What are long, thin, matchstick-shaped pieces?
Explain the primary difference between roasting and baking.
What is:
Why does adding salt to a vegetable sometimes cause water to appear on its surface?
What is osmosis?
A recipe costs $18 to produce and yields 24 portions.
What is the cost per portion?
What is $0.75 per portion?
A student removes chicken from the refrigerator, leaves it on a prep table for several hours, then decides to cook it thoroughly.
Explain why cooking it does not automatically make the food safe.
What is some bacteria may have produced heat-stable toxins that cooking may not destroy?
You dice an onion unevenly: some pieces are ¼ inch while others are almost 1 inch.
Besides appearance, explain two problems this creates during cooking.
Possible answers:
A student places vegetables in a pan with cold oil and slowly raises the temperature.
Another student heats the pan and oil before adding vegetables.
Explain why the second student may achieve better browning.
What is a properly preheated cooking surface promotes faster Maillard browning and reduces excessive moisture release before browning occurs?
Two identical pieces of meat are cooked.
One is placed directly into a cold pan.
The other is placed into a properly preheated pan.
Using food science, explain why their final color and flavor may differ.
What is:
The preheated pan encourages rapid surface browning and Maillard reactions, producing more complex flavors and color, while the cold pan allows moisture to release before significant browning occurs.
A recipe makes 40 cookies.
You need to make 150 cookies.
The original recipe uses 2¾ cups of flour.
How many cups of flour are required?
What is 10.3125 cups, or approximately 10⅓ cups.
Calculation:
150 ÷ 40 = 3.75 conversion factor
2.75 × 3.75 = 10.3125 cups