Cooking
Cutting
Mixing
Recipe
Equivalents
100
To cook in an oven.
What is to bake?
100
Cut food in small or large pieces, all are roughly the same size.
What is to chop?
100
To mix 2 or more ingredients thoroughly with a spoon, beater or blender.
What is to blend?
100

A set of directions for making food or beverages.

What is a Recipe?

100
The number of teaspoons in a Tablespoon.
What is 3?
200
To cook in a liquid where bubbles are continually rising and breaking the surface.
What is to boil?
200
Cut food in 1/4 inch cubes.
What is to dice?
200
To combine ingredients in a uniform mixture with a stirring motion.
What is to mix?
200

To cover surface of pan with fat.

What is to grease?

200
The number of Tablespoons in a cup.
What is 16?
300
Heat a solid food until liquefied.
What is to melt?
300
Cut food into small pieces by rubbing against a serrated surface.
What is to grate?
300
Removes lumps and blend and aerate ingredients.
What is to sift?
300

To put dry ingredients through a fine sieve.  Adds air to the ingredients and removes lumps.

What is to sift?

300
Less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
What is a dash, pinch or speck?
400
Brown food quickly in a pan over direct heat with a little fat.
What is to saute?
400
Cut food into very small pieces.
What is to mince?
400
To distribute ingredients evenly and to develop gluten.
What is to knead?
400

To moisten foods before, during, or after baking or roasting with fat, juice, or sauce. Basting adds flavor and keeps the food moist.

Baste

400
The number of Tablespoons in 1/3 cup.
What is 5 1/3?
500
Cook indirectly by setting food on top of boiling water in a covered pot.
What is to steam?
500
cut into very thin shred or strips.
What is to julienne?
500
To incorporate by cutting motion, using a pastry blender.
What is to cut-in?
500
To coat a food with flour, eggs, bread crumbs or cracker crumbs before cooking.
What is to bread?
500
The number of Tablespoons in an ounce?
What is 2?
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