To mix ingredients together with a circular up-and-down motion using a spoon, whisk, or rotary electric beater.
What is Beat?
100
To cut into very small cubes.
What is dice?
100
To cook in the oven with dry heat.
What is bake?
100
To coat with dry bread or cracker crumbs.
What is to Bread?
100
The practice of preparing food by applying heat in any form.
What is to Cook?
200
To stir ingredients until they are thoroughly combined.
What is Blend?
200
To reduce a food into small bits by rubbing it on the sharp teeth of a utensil.
What is grate?
200
To spoon pan juices, melted fat, or another liquid over the surface of food during cooking to keep the food moist and add flavor.
What is baste?
200
To beat rapidly to introduce air bubbles into food. Applied to cream, eggs, and gelatin.
What is Whip?
200
To sprinkle or coat with a powdered substance, usually with crumbs or seasonings.
What is to Flour?
300
To soften solid fats, often by adding a second ingredient, such as sugar, and working with a wooden spoon or an electric mixer until the fat is incorporated.
What is Cream?
300
To cut or chop into very fine pieces.
What is Mince?
300
To cook in water or liquid in which bubbles rise continually and break the surface.
What is boil?
300
To cook below the boiling point, bubbles form slowly and break on the surface.
What is to Simmer?
300
To decorate foods by adding other attractive and complementary foodstuffs to the food or serving dish.
What is to Garnish?
400
To combine solid fats with flour using a pastry blender, two forks, or the fingers.
What is Cut-in?
400
To remove or strip off the skin or rind of some fruits and vegetables.
What is peel?
400
To cook over, under, or in front of hot coals or a gas or electric burner, or other form of direct heat.
What is Broil?
400
To add, herb, spices, or other ingredients to a food to increase the flavor of the food; to prepare a cooking utensil, such as a cast iron skillet, for cooking.
What is to Season?
400
To work dough with the "heel" of the hands, using a pressing motion, accompanied by folding and stretching until smooth and elastic.
What is to Knead?
500
To mix ingredients by gently turning one part over another with a spatula.
What is Fold-In?
500
To cut into small pieces.
What is chop?
500
To cook the surface of a food by placing it under a broiler or quickly cooking it in hot fat.
What is to Brown?
500
To cook in a small amount of hot fat.
What is to Saute?
500
To mix by using circular motion, going around and around until blended.