General Knowledge
What is a Chef?
What is a professional, formally trained cook who manages the daily operation of a professional kitchen?
How many levels are there in a Brigade kitchen system?
What is 4?
This kitchen tool is used to chop, slice, and dice ingredients and is considered a chef's most important tool.
What is a chef's knife?
This cooking method involves submerging food in hot oil.
What is deep frying?
In a brigade kitchen system, this chef is responsible for sauces.
Who is the saucier?
This Pixar Film dipicts a rat cooking in a professional kitchen.
What is Ratatouille?
This piece of kitchen equipment keeps foods cold enough to slow bacterial growth and is typically maintained at 4°C or below.
What is a refrigerator?
This heavy duty, motorized appliance is a pastry chef's best friend, often paired with a paddle, whisk, or dough hook.
What is a stand mixer?
This cooking technique refers to cooking food in sealed bags in temperature controlled water.
What is sous vide?
Created by Auguste Escoffier, this kitchen organization system divides responsibilities among specialized chefs.
What is the brigade system?
This food safety practice involves cooking food to a temperature that kills harmful bacteria.
What is cooking to a safe internal temperature?
This kitchen principle requires cooks to wash their hands after handling raw meat to prevent harmful bacteria from spreading to other foods.
What is preventing cross contamination?
This specialized culinary torch is used to quickly melt sugar into a hard, glassy crust on a classic French custard dessert.
What is a blowtorch?
In this technique, hot liquid is continuously spooned over food as it cooks to help keep it moist and enhance browning.
What is basting?
This French phrase literally means "blue ribbon" and is associated with one of the world's most famous culinary schools.
What is Cordon Bleu?
This white chef's hat is traditionally known by this French name.
What is a toque?
What is the hightest level in a Brigade kitchen system?
What is Excutive Chef?
This hand-held device utilizes a rotating blade to quickly and finely grate hard cheeses, zest citrus fruits, or shred ginger.
What is a Microplane?
This cooking technique uses low, steady heat and a small amount of liquid to slowly tenderize tougher cuts of meat.
What is braising?
The five basic tastes are sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and this.
What is umami?
Restaurants receive this blank after a health inspection to indicate their level of compliance with food safety regulations.
What is a health inspection letter grade?
This kitchen station is typically responsible for salads and cold appetizers.
What is the garde manger station?
This manual slicing tool uses a razor sharp, adjustable blade built into a flat platform to create perfectly uniform julienne cuts or paper thin potato chips.
What is a mandoline?
This term describes partially cooking vegetables and then quickly cooling them in ice water.
What is blanching?
This mother sauce is made from a light roux and milk.
What is béchamel?