Equipment
A versatile appliance that can quickly and easily chop, slice, shred, grind, and puree food.
What is a Food Processor?
To fry quickly in a little hot fat.
What is Saute?
To heat food until the sugars on the surface break down and form a brown coating, which may be sweet or savory.
What is Caramelize?
A general method for cutting food into bite-sized pieces.
What is Chopping?
Carbohydrates, protein, and fat
What are Macronutrients?
An appliance used to mix, crush, purée or emulsify food and other substances.
What is a Blender?
To fry food in an amount of fat or oil sufficient to cover it completely.
What is Deep Fry?
To mix a stiff dough by manipulating it by hand or with a mechanical dough hook in order to make it smooth. In bread–making, this also helps develop the gluten.
What is Knead?
Cutting an item into relatively broad, thin pieces.
What is Slicing?
Iron, potassium, zinc, selenium, calcium, sodium, phosphorous, etc.
What are Minerals?
A sealed pot with a lot of steam inside builds up high pressure, which helps food cook faster.
What is a Pressure Cooker?
To reach the temperature at which liquid bubbles and turns to vapor.
What is Boil?
A technique used for baking an unfilled pastry shell. Before baking with the filling, the shell is lined with parchment paper and filled with ceramic beads, dry rice, or dry beans, and then baked briefly until the pastry is set.
What is Blind Bake?
This is similar to chopping, except it is always finely chopped, consistent in size, and neat in appearance.
What is Dicing?
Vitamins A, D, E, and K
What are Fat-Soluble Vitamins?
An alternative to using a standard kitchen oven, this appliance reheats, bakes, broils, toasts, browns, and defrosts small amounts of foods.
What is a Toaster Oven?
To keep just below the boiling point while being heated.
What is Simmer?
To coat an ingredient with a dry ingredient, such as flour or powdered sugar, either before or after cooking.
What is Dredge?
The finest level of chopping, and is frequently done using a food processor or a sharp chefs knife. This is a technique that allows the maximum amount of flavor to be contributed by the food.
What is Mincing?
Vitamin C and B vitamins
What are Water-Soluble Vitamins?
A manual coffee maker with a cylindrical carafe, a plunger and a built-in filter that percolates coffee.
What is a French Press?
Flour and fat cooked together and used to thicken sauces.
What is a Roux?
A technique to prevent cracking or curdling by surrounding the food being baked with hot water to produce an even, gentle heat.
What is a Bain Marie?
To make meat softer before cooking it so that it is easier to cut and eat.
What is Tenderizing?
The body's preferred source of energy
What are Carbohydrates?