Stocks & Soups
Cooking Techniques
Cooking Terms
Kitchen Equipment
Misc
Mother Sauces
100

True or false, stocks can be treated like garbage cans and you can throw any and all scrabs and it will not effect taste or quality

FALSE

100

This cooking techniques means to lightly sauté until translucent

What is sweat?

100

Please list a classic french mirepoix and its ratios

Onion 2, Carrot 1, Celery 1

100

What is this called?

Baking sheet or sheet pan, (full)

100

Escoffier created this standard kitchen uniform system

What is brigade?

100

This mother sauce is tomato, stock and optional roux

What is sauce tomat? (tomato sauce)

200

List the major difference between white and brown stock

In white stock the bones are blanched and in brown stock the bones are roasted

200

Equal parts fat and flour

What is a roux?

200

What are 2 vegetables carrot can be substituted for in a white mirepoix?

Leeks or parsnips

200

What are the differences between conventional and convectional ovens?

Convectional ovens use a fan to rotate heat and therefore cook faster, conventional ovens have no fan so heat is not distributed evenly. Food should be rotated halfway through baking in conventional ovens and temps should be adjusted when converting recipes

200

What is the most important attribute a cook can have?

A positive attitude and teachable demeanor

200

This mother sauce is a combination of milk & white roux

What is bechamel?

300

List the two ways Demi-glace can be thickened

What is reducing and roux

300

Briefly describe the differences between pan frying and deep frying?

When deep frying the item is fully submerged and when pan frying the item and only partially submerged and flipped to finish frying

300

This reaction is responsible for the characteristic flavors, aromas, and brown colors of many cooked foods, including bread, meat, and roasted coffee.

What is the Maillard reaction?

300

What is this called? 

Tilting steam kettle

300

List two scenarios in the kitchen where you should wash your hands

After going to the bathroom, before switching tasks, after touching your face, after eating, taking out the trash, coughing or sneezing

300

A derivative of a mother sauce is called a?

What is a small sauce?

400

What is the difference between stock and broth?

Stock uses bones and broth uses meat

400

When cooking chicken the minimum internal temperature is ___ but the final resting temperature should be around ___

What is 165 and 180

400

Define monter au beurre

What is to finish by whisking in cold butter cubes?

400

What is this pan called?

1/9th pan or 9th hotel pan

400

Besides brigade list two other ways Escoffier contributed to the world of Culinary Arts

Streamlined efficiency in the kitchen, elevated professionalism, made French cooking more accessible, wrote a foundational textbook for chefs, emphasized quality, brought the military system to the kitchen and created a hierarchy of chefs (executive chef, sous chef, chef de partie etc)

400

This mother sauce is a combination of egg yolks and butter

What is hollandaise?

500

How do bones naturally thicken stock?

The collagen breaks down and converts to gelatin

500

What is the number 1 mistake you should avoid while cooking seafood?

Overcooking it

500

This mixture of egg yolks and cream is used to enrich and thicken soups

What is a liason?

500

What is this called? 

Fish spatula

500

What are the minimum internal temperature for whole cuts of pork, beef, & seafood according to servsafe?

145

500

This sauce is blond roux and white stock

What is veloute?

600

List one sub category of clear soups, thick soups, and briefly define specialty soups

Broth and bouillon, vegetable soup, consume


Cream, puree, bisques


A soup that doesn't easily fit into other categories

600

Please list the temperature ranges for poaching, simmering and boiling

Poaching - 160-180

Simmering - 180-205

Boiling - 212

600

List 2 examples of moist heat cooking methods and 2 examples of dry heat cooking methods

Moist - braising, poaching, simmering, boiling, steaming

Dry - roasting, baking, deep frying, broiling, grilling

600

Name two different styles of sauté pans and what makes them different/an example of what each type is good for

Slope sided and straight sided, slope sided is curved and good for sautéing, straight sided has flat walls and is good for stir frying or pan frying

600

List the following items how they should be stored in the walk-in from bottom shelf to top shelf

Seafood

Whole and ground poultry

Ready to eat foods

Whole cuts of beef and pork

Ground meat and fish

Whole and ground poultry

Ground meat and fish

Whole cuts of beef and pork

Seafood

Ready to eat foods

600

This mother sauce is brown roux and brown stock

What is espagnole?