Cooking Terminology

In some countries they call main dishes (entreés) mains. I observed this when I visited Australia last month, where many restaurants called the first dishes entreés (what American restaurants call appetizers) and the large course mains (what American restaurants call entreés, mistakenly because "entreé" means entrance or opening).

To provide some food or a meal, as in: "After the concert the women's group will furnish a repast in the main lobby."

. . the bakinq tools is an important to bake a cakes , ice cream , .......

Tibicos are a culture of bacteria and yeasts. The grains produced are used to create a carbonated beverage that is fermented.

Cummin. An aromatic herb plant (Cuminum sativum) used as a condiment and stimulant (Isa. 28:27). It was one of the small garden herbs tithed by the Pharisees (Matt. 23:23

The meaning of in the soup is that you are in some kind of trouble or problem

Meat that is raw has not been cooked in any way. It has never been put over a fire or in a frying pan.

Meat that is medium rare has been cooked. It is brown on the outside and through most of the interior, but has a slight pink color in the center.

Uniform can mean the garment worn by the cook, or refer to the method of doing something in the kitchen, meaning to always do it the same way.

For example, if a recipe calls for trimmed meat, it means to trim off the excess fat and skin with kitchen shears or a knife before cooking the meat. For vegetables and fruits, you might trim off the ends or any bad spots.

Vegetable production simply means seeding, growing, then harvesting vegetables (i.e., lettuce, carrots, spinach, tomatoes, corn, eggplants, etc.), usually on a large-scale production or on a scale that is bigger than your average backyard garden.

A Succulent Fruit is a fruit with juicy, fleshy, brightly coloured outer parts. For eg. orange, apple, lemon, melon, peach.

A dry Fruit is a fruit with a hard, dry outer covering around their seeds. For eg, nuts, avocado, passion fruit etc.

If a steak is cut from a trimmed roast, it's called a trimmed tip steak, or ball tip steak.

In cooking, yields refers to the number of servings a recipe will make. For instance if a recipe makes 4 servings, it yields 4 servings.

Set typically means a food is allowed to cool to acquire its desired consistency, such as the gelling of gelatin or a food that thickens as it cools.

"Beat until light" means to use a mixer to beat the ingredients (for example eggs, or eggs and sugar, or butter and sugar) until they are fluffy or frothy. This happens because the beating breaks up fat into tiny globules and causes air to be incorporated into the ingredients. It typically takes 5 to 10 minutes of beating to accomplish this. "Beat until light" can be done by hand using a wire whisk, but it is really tiring work; still, some cooks insist that whisking by hand produces superior results.

It is guava paste, used in Hispanic cooking, baking, etc. It is also used in candy and snacks.

Kieselsol is a fining agent used in wine making. Described by the manufacturer to be an "aqueous solution of negatively charged, food grade colloidal silicic acid." Appearance is typically white to off white. removes yeast cells, and other undesirable solids leaving a fresher, cleaner looking wine. Often used in wine kits, quantities will vary depending on the grape (or other fruit) used.

Kieselsol is often used sequentially with Gelatin - which is positively charged - in order to remove particles from the wine regardless of their polarity.

A Chili dog Is a Hot Dog With bread And surrounding Chili inside the bun.

Also a Chihuahua is called a Chili by some people.

A 'pound' is a unit of weight. For example, a pound of tomatoes. Or, it is also a technique of tenderizing meat with a utensil specially made to 'pound' the meat.

Bush meat is meat from animals like endangered monkeys.... chimpanzees for example which are being killed and eaten or sold as a delicacy. If the bush meat is traded it is the bush meat trade.

Fod that may be considered boring would be dry and tasteless. Such food would be better with added flavoring, a special sauce or seasoning.

1. a narrow band for the hair. 2. a thin narrow strip, as a molding. a boneless peice of meat or fish.

Seviche, savece, cebiche or most often ceviche refers to acid-cooked seafood.