Food Safety
Cooking Terms
Foundations of Flavors
Nutrition
Cooking Skills
100

The first thing you do before cooking

What is hand washing?

100
To place foods into a flavored liquid in order to transfer the flavors.

What is a marinade?

100
These are the three foundations of flavors.

What is Taste, Mouthfeel, Aroma?

100

These are the five food groups that make up MyPlate.

What are fruits, vegetables, protein, grains, and dairy?
100

The first thing you should do before cooking.

What is hand washing?
200

These are the 4 basics of food safety

What is to clean, separate, cook, and chill?

200

An Asian technique for cooking meat and vegetables quickly so they retain their texture and flavor and requires food to be cooked at a medium-high heat with constant stirring in little oil.

What is Stir Frying?
200

These are the five flavors that make up how food tastes. 

What is spicy, salty, sweet, bitter and sour?
200

This is the important half of the MyPlate

What are fruits and vegetables?

200

After you wash your hands, but before you begin cooking, you should do this with your teammates.

What is reading the recipe?

300

These should face in when cooking to keep food from falling off the stove and onto the floor

What are pot/pan handles?

300

This technique browns the surface of the food to create a crust, which helps to seal in the juices and flavor of the food. 

What is searing?

300

This flavor balances sourness, bitterness, and spice and enhances saltiness

What is sweet?

300
This food has lots of fiber and B vitamins.

What is a whole grain?

300

When adding these to a dish, you want to put them in a separate bowl first to mix them.

What are eggs?

400

165 is the food temperature this food should reach to safely eat

What is the proper temperature for poultry?

400

Toasting them in a pan or skillet before using them in a recipe which brings out the essential oils in the spices, intensifying their flavors and aromas.

What is blooming?
400

This flavor balances sweetness and saltiness.

What is bitter?

400

Your age group should have about 2 cups of this food every day.

What is fruit?

400

When using a knife, this technique is done to help chop foods and avoid cutting fingers. 

What is rocking?

500

If a cut or burn happens while cooking, this is what you put on to keep what you are handling safe.

What are gloves?

500

This technique requires cooking foods quickly on high heat in a small amount of fat.

What is sauteing?

500

This enhances others flavors and brightens the dish.

What is acid?
500

Your age group should have 3 cups of this each day.

What is a vegetable?

500

This is the process of putting food in a brine, which is a salt or vinegar solution.

What is pickling?