To pour or spoon pan juices, melted fat, or sauces over the surface of a food during cooking, using a baster, cup, or spoon, to keep food moist and add flavor.
What is Baste?
100
To thoroughly mix ingredients and incorporate air using a spoon, wire whisk, mixer, or food processor with an up-and-down and circular motion.
What is Beat ?
100
To blend a delicate mixture into a heavier one, using a rubber spatula, spoon, or wire whisk in a gentle up, down, and over motion so that the mixture stays light.
What is Fold?
100
To cook in an oven with dry, hot air.
What is Bake?
200
To cut food into very fine uneven pieces.
What is Mince ?
200
To lower a food's temperature to freezing or below by placing it in a freezer.
What is Freeze?
200
To stir or mix ingredients until they are thoroughly combined and smooth.
What is Blend?
200
To work a ball of dough with the heels of the hands repeating press, fold, and turn motions until the dough is smooth and elastic.
What is Knead?
300
To cut food into small, equal size squares about 1/2 inch in size.
What is Cube ?
300
To expose to warmth in order to free form a frozen state.
What is Defrost/Thaw ?
300
To blend or mix two or more ingredients.
What is Combine?
300
To combine two or more ingredients into one mass by stirring or beating them.
What is Mix?
300
To cook food in hot liquid 212, having bubbles that rise to and break on the surface of the liquid.
What is Boil?
400
To cut food into small, equal size squares about 1/4 to 1/8 inch in size.
What is Dice?
400
To cause a solid food to turn into or become part of a liquid.
What is Dissolve ?
400
To beat solid fat and sugar with a wooden spoon or electric mixer until smooth, light and creamy.
What is Cream?
400
To reduce dry ingredients to finer particles, add air to dry ingredients, or combine dry ingredients by putting them through a sieve.
What is Sift?
400
To cook food by completely immersing in hot fat; also known as french frying.
What is Deep-fry?
500
To reduce food into small pieces by pressing and rubbing it against the "teeth" of a grater.
What is Grate?
500
To remove liquid from a solid food by pouring off the liquid, putting the food through a colander, or drying with a paper towels.
What is Drain ?
500
To combine flour and solid fat by cutting the fat into tiny pieces using a pastry blender, two forks or knives, or the hands.
What is Cut-in?
500
To turn on an appliance or oven to a desired temperature about 5-10 minutes before the food is to be placed in it.