Adding Flavour
Coating foods through different sauces. Typically used on salads.
What is Dressing?
Known as grilling. Place food under a preheated, extremely hot, red grill, or upper portion of oven. Until food becomes browned.
What is Broil?
to cut food items into smaller pieces.
What is Chop?
The simplest mixing method, It's the process of mixing all ingredients together in a circular motion using most commonly a spoon.
What is Stir?
To heat sugar to turn it brown and give it a special taste.
What is Caramelize?
Removing the outer layer of citrus fruits by using tools such as: graters, knife, or peelers.
What is Zest?
Food cooked in a layer of hot oil.
What is Deep Fry?
The process of cutting food items into small squares of different sizes.
What is dice?
The process of incorporating air into food and to increase its volume using a whisk.
What is whip/whisk?
To remove pits from fruit.
What is Pit?
Preserving food in a brine. Brine is normally made up of a salt or vinegar solution.
What is Pickle?
The process of using alcohol to produce flavour. Alcohol is burned off the food in a very hot pan, with a large flame.
What is Flambé?
The breaking down of food items into smaller pieces, an example of this would be coffee beans.
What is grind?
The ingredients are moved vigorously back and forth, up and down, and around and around until the food is broken down.
What is beat?
Neither warm nor cool, described as body temperature.
What is Lukewarm?
The process of allowing dried ingredients to soak in a liquid until the flavour is extracted.
What is Steeping?
The use of low heat to melt fat away from a food item, most commonly meat.
What is Render?
Shallow, diagonal cuts used to render fats and promote crispiness. Normally on meats and vegetables.
What is score?
Ingredients are mixed so thoroughly that the ingredients become one.
What is Blend?
To destroy any germs or micro organisms by boiling, dry heat, or steam.
What is Sterilize?
A mixture of starch and liquid that’s added to ground meat. Uses a mixture of breadcrumbs or panko with milk, buttermilk or yogurt.
What is Panade?
A non-heated method of cooking where food is placed with a salt mixture and left to sit and dry out.
What is Cure?
A skillful knife cut where the shape resembles match sticks.
Ingredients cling to each other, for example: when bread is stirred into fish.
What is bind?
Food items dredged in flour and sautéed in butter.
What is Meuniere?