Equipment
A knife that's small and easy to maneuver for detail-oriented cutting jobs like peeling vegetables and making elegant garnishes.
What is a Paring Knife?
When pasta is cooked to just firm.
What is Al Dente?
Process of passing dry ingredients through a sieve to break up lumps and aerate ingredients.
What is Sift?
To cut food into short, thin, uniform strips.
What is Julienne?
Live microorganisms intended to maintain or improve the normal microflora in the body.
What are Probiotics?
A small countertop convection oven designed to simulate deep frying without submerging the food in oil. A fan circulates hot air at high speed, producing a crisp layer via browning reactions.
What is an Air Fryer?
To combine two ingredients together which normally would not mix by agitating them with a whisk, blender, or some other agitation method.
What is Emulsify?
Process of beating butter together with sugar.
What is Creaming?
Exposing grains to water until that water runs clear.
What is Rinsing?
Yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut, tempeh, kimchi, miso, buttermilk
What are Examples of Probiotic-Containing Foods?
A culinary utensil used for slicing and for cutting juliennes.
What is a Mandoline?
To loosen the brown bit from a pan by adding liquid and then scraping the bits off the pan.
What is Deglaze?
Process of feeding yeast with starch and sugar, as found in yeast dough. Also the name for the first rise of yeast dough.
What is Fermentation?
To moisten and soften the seed to reduce the cooking time or to aid in seed coat removal.
What is Soaking?
Compounds in food that induce the growth or activity of beneficial microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi.
What are Prebiotics?
A kitchen blade grinder used to blend ingredients or purée food in the container in which they are being prepared.
What is an Immersion Blender?
To cook first by browning and then by gently simmering in a small amount of liquid in a covered pan until very tender.
What is Braise?
Process of incorporating small pieces of fat (usually butter) into flour.
What is Cutting In?
The process of preserving or extending the shelf life of food by either anaerobic fermentation in brine or immersion in vinegar.
What is Pickling?
A hormone produced by enteroendocrine cells of the gastrointestinal tract, especially the stomach, and increases feelings of hunger. Blood levels of this hormone are highest before meals when hungry, returning to lower levels after mealtimes.
What is Ghrelin?
Uses a different type of heating, rather than relying on indirect radiation, convection, or thermal conduction. It allows high power and very rapid increases in temperature to be achieved, and changes in heat settings are instantaneous.
What is an Induction Cooktop?
To cook gently, over a low heat, in barely simmering liquid that barely covers the food.
What is Poach?
A technique used to soften fresh fruit and draw out its natural juice.
What is Macerate?
To cut leafy vegetables into thin, ribbon-like strands.
What is Chiffonade?
A hormone predominantly made by adipose cells and enterocytes in the small intestine that helps to regulate energy balance by inhibiting hunger.
What is Leptin?