Kitchen Utensils
Kitchen Verbs
Personal Finance
Random
100
Handheld tool made of wire loops used to beat eggs, whip cream, or blend sauces.
What is a whisk?
100
Remove the outer skin from a fruit or vegetable.
Peel
100
Money you earn from your parents for finishing your weekly chores.
Allowance
100
Bouncy, living microorganism added to bread dough to make it rise before baking.
Yeast
200
Wide, flat tool used for flipping pancakes, burgers, or eggs.
Spatula
200
Work dough by pressing, folding, and stretching it with your hands.
Knead
200
A written plan showing how much money you earn versus how much you are allowed to spend.
Budget
200
Soaking meat in a flavorful liquid sauce before cooking to give it extra taste and moisture.
Marinating
300
Razor-sharp grating tool designed specifically to shave citrus zest or hard cheeses.
Grater or zester
300
To cut food like garlic or herbs into tiny, finely textured pieces smaller than a dice.
Mince
300
Plastic card that lets you buy items today, but forces you to pay the bank back later.
Credit card
300
Strong chemical liquid added to wash loads to make whites bright, but will ruin dark clothes if it touches them.
Bleach
400
Deep spoon with small holes designed to lift solid food out of hot liquid or broth.
Slotted spoon
400
Cooking technique where delicate items like eggs or fish are cooked submerged in liquid held just below a boil.
Poach
400
Bonus money the bank pays you simply for keeping your savings inside a bank account.
Interest
400
Soft, fuzzy blanket of fabric fibers left behind on the dryer screen after drying a load of clothes.
Lint
500
Garlic press
500
Cooking food briefly in boiling water, then immediately plunging it into ice water to stop the cooking process.
Blanch
500
Money that you borrow from a bank or person that you are required to pay back over time.
Loan (debt)
500
What happens when you melt plain sugar until it turns into a sweet, gooey brown syrup.
Caramelization