Basic Cooking Terms
Dry-Heat Cooking
Moist-Heat Cooking
Frying Food
Microwave Cooking
100
The transfer of heat energy through direct contact between a hot surface and food.
What is Conduction?
100
Cooking food uncovered without adding liquid or fat.
What is Dry-Heat Cooking?
100
Method that uses added liquid or steam to cook and tenderize foods.
What is Moist-Heat Cooking?
100
Cooking food by completely covering it in fat.
What is Deep-Fat Frying?
100
A type of cooking where electricity is converted into microwaves.
What is Microwave Cooking?
200
The transfer of heat through the flow of hot air or hot liquid.
What is Convection?
200
Cooking large pieces of meat or poultry in a shallow pan.
What is Roasting?
200
Heating liquid to a high temperature so that bubbles rise and break on the liquid surface.
What is Boiling?
200
Frying tender cuts of meat, fish, and eggs in smaller amounts of fat in a skillet.
What is Panfrying?
200
Never use this material in the microwave.
What is metal?
300
Energy that is transmitted through air waves.
What is Radiation?
300
Cooking food directly under a heat source or heating element.
What is Broiling?
300
Cooking food over boiling water, rather than in it.
What is Steaming?
300
Cooking small pieces of food quickly at high heat in a very small amount of fat, stirring the entire time.
What is Stir-frying?
300
The number one thing you should always do before using a microwave.
What is always read instructions?
400
The transfer of heat, from a heat source, to food.
What is Cooking?
400
A type of cooking where the heat source is below what is being cooked.
What is Grilling?
400
Cooking whole or large pieces of food in a small amout of liquid.
What is Poaching?
400
French Fries, Fried Chicken, and Onion Rings.
What are types of food that can be deep-fat fryed?
400
The shape of container that you should use.
What is a rounded container?
500
The three different types of heat transfer.
What is Conduction, Convection, and Radiation?
500
A type of oven that has both upper and lower heating elements and a fan on the back wall, which circulates the hot air from these elements.
What is a Convection Oven?
500
Heating liquid to a temperature just below the boiling point until bubbles barely break on the liquid's surface.
What is Simmering?
500
Vegetables, meat, fish, and poultry.
What are types of food that can be stir-fryed?
500
Glass, ceramic, paper, and plastic.
What are materials that microwaves can pass through?