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Cooking
Kitchen
100

Ways to cut off oxygen from a cooking fire.

What is baking soda, lid, salt or extinguisher?

100

To cook liquid at a low temperature.

What is simmer.

100

The number of teaspoons in a tablespoon.

What is 3?

100

True or False. You can usually find cans of pasta sauce for under $2.00.

True

100

True or False. When picking fruit, the heavier it is the juicier it is. 

True.


Also, the smoother the skin on citrus the more juices inside.

200

You shouldn't cut lettuce with this type of knife, it will make the lettuce rust and rot faster.

What is a metal knife.

200

If you do this to the meat before slow cooking or stewing, it will increase the flavours immensely.

What is sear, fry or char? 

200

Even if this dairy product has gone sour, it can still be used in baking.

What is milk or cream?

200

You can use either of these mixed with water to make gravies and sauces thicker.

What are corn starch or flour?

200

Specifically, a whopping _____% of produce grown is never sold just because it’s too ugly.

Because consumers won’t buy imperfect fruits or veggies, grocery stores in turn refuse to stock them.

What is 40%?

300

Put this under your cutting board so that it does not slide around when you are using it.

What is a tea towel?

300

If you give these a quick heat up in the pan before cooking with them, it releases the natural oils and increases the flavours in the final dish.

What are spices, nuts and grains.


300

This fruit is more effective than coffee at waking you up in the morning

What is an apple?

300

This can be found in the dairy section and it is the most stolen food in the world.

What is cheese?

In fact, it’s stolen so much it has its own percentage! About 4% of all cheese made around the globe ends up stolen.

There’s even a black market for cheese!


300

One fast food burger can have meat from _____ different cows.

What is 100?


Ground beef used to make burgers, both in fast food places and grocery stores, is made of a collection of muscle tissues

400

Eskimos use _________ to stop their food from freezing.

What are refrigerators.

400

An ingredient called “cellulose” is digestible wood pulp. It’s a filler used to keep this shredded diary product from clumping together.

What is cheese?

400

If you are not sure if it is fresh or not, float this breakfast favorite in water, if it floats its no good.

What is an egg?

400

The red food dye for Skittles, maraschino cherries, strawberry and raspberry flavored candy, and lipstick. are made from boiled ________.

What are beetles?

A common red food dye, carminic acid, is made from the crushed bodies of a beetle called the dactylopius coccus

400

If you buy a chocolate bar in the United States, according to the FDA, it can be sold for human consumption if there is have no more than 60 fragments of ___________ per 100 grams? 

What are insects?

500

By adding just one teaspoon of this ingredient to your flour combo it will increase your crunch in your batter.

What is cornstarch or rice flour? 


500

How many lobes (Bumps on the bottom) are on a female pepper?

What is 4 lobes? 

Peppers that have 4 lobes, contains more seeds and are best for seed collecting and growing new plants (hence female). They are best for eating raw, male peppers have 3 lobes and are best used for cooking.

500

It is not a good idea to cook on high heat with this oil due to its low smoke point.

What is olive oil?

500

If you want less heat, remove these from vegetables such as banana and jalapeno peppers.

What are the seeds.

500

If this is removed from the produce, it is NOT grown close to home.

What are roots?

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