Ways to cut off oxygen from a cooking fire.
What is baking soda, lid, salt or extinguisher?
To cook liquid at a low temperature.
What is simmer.
The number of teaspoons in a tablespoon.
What is 3?
True or False. You can usually find cans of pasta sauce for under $2.00.
True
True or False. When picking fruit, the heavier it is the juicier it is.
True.
Also, the smoother the skin on citrus the more juices inside.
You shouldn't cut lettuce with this type of knife, it will make the lettuce rust and rot faster.
What is a metal knife.
If you do this to the meat before slow cooking or stewing, it will increase the flavours immensely.
What is sear, fry or char?
Even if this dairy product has gone sour, it can still be used in baking.
What is milk or cream?
You can use either of these mixed with water to make gravies and sauces thicker.
What are corn starch or flour?
Specifically, a whopping _____% of produce grown is never sold just because it’s too ugly.
Because consumers won’t buy imperfect fruits or veggies, grocery stores in turn refuse to stock them.
What is 40%?
Put this under your cutting board so that it does not slide around when you are using it.
What is a tea towel?
If you give these a quick heat up in the pan before cooking with them, it releases the natural oils and increases the flavours in the final dish.
What are spices, nuts and grains.
This fruit is more effective than coffee at waking you up in the morning
What is an apple?
This can be found in the dairy section and it is the most stolen food in the world.
What is cheese?
In fact, it’s stolen so much it has its own percentage! About 4% of all cheese made around the globe ends up stolen.
There’s even a black market for cheese!
One fast food burger can have meat from _____ different cows.
What is 100?
Ground beef used to make burgers, both in fast food places and grocery stores, is made of a collection of muscle tissues
Eskimos use _________ to stop their food from freezing.
What are refrigerators.
An ingredient called “cellulose” is digestible wood pulp. It’s a filler used to keep this shredded diary product from clumping together.
What is cheese?
If you are not sure if it is fresh or not, float this breakfast favorite in water, if it floats its no good.
What is an egg?
The red food dye for Skittles, maraschino cherries, strawberry and raspberry flavored candy, and lipstick. are made from boiled ________.
What are beetles?
A common red food dye, carminic acid, is made from the crushed bodies of a beetle called the dactylopius coccus
If you buy a chocolate bar in the United States, according to the FDA, it can be sold for human consumption if there is have no more than 60 fragments of ___________ per 100 grams?
What are insects?
By adding just one teaspoon of this ingredient to your flour combo it will increase your crunch in your batter.
What is cornstarch or rice flour?
How many lobes (Bumps on the bottom) are on a female pepper?
What is 4 lobes?
Peppers that have 4 lobes, contains more seeds and are best for seed collecting and growing new plants (hence female). They are best for eating raw, male peppers have 3 lobes and are best used for cooking.
It is not a good idea to cook on high heat with this oil due to its low smoke point.
What is olive oil?
If you want less heat, remove these from vegetables such as banana and jalapeno peppers.
What are the seeds.
If this is removed from the produce, it is NOT grown close to home.
What are roots?