Knife Skills!
To cut food into very small (1/8-to 1/4-inch) cubes.
What is dice?
To fold, turn, and press dough with heel of your hand in order to develop the gluten and make dough more elastic.
What is knead?
To cook food in a small amount of fat over relatively high heat.
What is sauté?
Chefs let meat rest after cooking or plunge cooked vegetables into ice water because this continues to happen when removing food from heat.
What is continues to cook?
Every continent (except Antartica) has a city named this.
What is Rome?
To cut into long, thin strips, matchstick-like in shape.
What is julienne?
To beat until smooth, soft and fluffy.
What is cream?
To brown the surface of meat by quick-cooking over high heat in order to seal in the meat's juices.
What is sear?
This is a combination of oil-based ingredients and water-based ingredients, like a mixture of oil and vinegar in a vinaigrette, or water and butter fat in butter.
What is an emulsion?
Studies have shown that termites chew wood up to two times faster when listening to this genre of music.
What is heavy metal?
A multipurpose kitchen knife with a wide blade usually 8 to 10 inches long and tapering to a point, used for slicing, chopping, etc.
What is a chef's knife?
A tough, rubbery and elastic substance, which has the capacity to stretch and rise. It's responsible for forming the structure and texture of bread.
What is gluten?
To loosen brown bits from a pan by adding a liquid, then heating while stirring and scraping the pan.
What is to deglaze?
The chemical process that creates delicious browning on seared meats, baked or toasted breads, malted barley in your whiskey or beer, and roasted coffee.
What is the Maillard reaction?
This is the longest word that can be typed using only the first row on a QWERTY keyboard.
What is typewriter?
A small all-purpose knife with a plain edge that is ideal for peeling fruits and vegetables, and other small or intricate work.
What is a paring knife?
This ferments carbohydrates (sugars) to produce carbon dioxide gases and alcohol, which aerate bread and other baked products, giving it volume and texture.
What is yeast?
To cook briefly in boiling water to seal in flavor and color; usually used for vegetables or fruit, to prepare for freezing, and to ease skin removal.
What is blanch?
Cooking spices in vegetable oil (rather than water-based ingredients) brings out their full flavor because of this.
What is fat solubility?
One barrel of wine is classified with this unit of measurement.
What is a buttload?
To finely slice or shred leafy vegetables or herbs.
What is chiffonade?
To mix gently by bringing rubber scraper down through mixture, across the bottom, up and over top until blended.
What is fold?
To heat sugar until it liquefies and becomes a syrup ranging in color from golden to dark brown.
What is caramelize?
Adding a tiny pinch of this to your morning coffee can actually make it taste less bitter.
What is salt?
Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barbara Walters all share this in common.
What is birth year?