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Cooking Terminology
Find out what cooking terms mean before you flambe your bananas, caramelize your onions, or julienne your carrots.
709 Questions
What is the meaning of steak pie?
To eat, love, enjoy, best of all! Finish the plate and think of IT, just think of it. Eating, it, again.
What is the meaning of utinsils?
Utensils are tools to handle food so you don't have to touch them. This is especially useful when foods are too hot to touch.
What is the meaning of rack for baking potatoes?
It could be referring to either the oven rack, or a special rack made with spears on which to spear the potato for baking.
What does portioning mean in cooking?
An example of portioning food is making 2 cups of mashed potatoes to serve to 4 people. Each person's portion would be 1/2 cup of mashed potatoes.
What is the meaning of household cooking?
House hold cooking is small-scale cooking using ingredients and equipment you would find in the average kitchen.
What is the meaning of skim in cooking?
The term skim in cooking generally refers to removing or scooping particles such as fat from the surface of foods or liquids with a spoon.
Can you define the cooking term tourne and how to pronounce it?
Tourné is a culinary term, considered to be one of the basic cuts and shapes.
A vegetable is a tourné or has been "turned" if it is 2 inches long by 3/4 inches in diameter with 7 sides and flat ended. It resembles a football.
It is pronounced "toorn-eh".
means you should dump him
Zita is a tube pasta that is similar to penne but with a slightly larger diameter. Penne zita is approximately 1 1/2 inches long. "Zita" refers to the type of cut. Most Penne pastas are cut diagonally across the tube where the "Zita" is a straight cut across the tube. The pasta is usually made of high-gluten semolina flour and can be kosher.
What does weeping mean in a cooking terms?
When moisture oozes out of a food, it is referred to as weeping. This is when liquid separates itself from a solid, such as a meringue that leaks moisture.
What is the meaning of chocolate soiled hands?
Having chocolate all over your hands after working with it.
What is dehydration in cooking terms?
Dehydration means to take the water out or to dry out a food item.
What does star profile mean in cooking?
it is where you put different sensory factors e.g. smell, texture, taste etc... and you mark it on a star shaped thing form one to five before and after you have eaten it so you can see how it compared to your expectations.
What is the meaning of reduced sodium?
Usually sodium relates to the salt content of the food. So reduced sodium would mean that there is less salt used in the product compared to a normal product.
What is the meaning of flour mixture?
A flour mixture contains various dry ingredients combined with flour before using it in cooking.
Pomme is the French word for apple, literally "fruit."
Confusion can result from the term pommes frites(frites) which is the French word for "french fries." This is because the word for "potato" is pomme de terre (fruit of the ground) but is almost always shortened.
* The slang term pom or pomme or pommy is an Australian term for the British, thought to come from Prisoner Of [Her] Majesty, as most British convicts sent to Australia penal colonoes were.
Kneading is a term used for working the dough, using both hands to push and fold the dough over and over again, bread dough is kneaded this way for several minutes.
Kneading the dough elasticates the gluten in the flour, this gives a better rise and finished texture to the bread when it is cooked.
What is the meaning of hot and cold plate?
Whether the food served is hot or cold, based on original serving intent (in other words, the cold isn't hot food that is no longer hot). So cold plate could be luncheon meats, cold sandwiches, salads, etc. A hot plate is also a term for an electric plug-in single unit cooking element.
