Cooking terms Flashcards
Use a spoon to move circular or figure eight motions.
Stir
Use spoon to stir two or more ingredients together thoroughly.
Blend, Mix, Combine
Use to add air to foods, ex. beating eggs. You can use a wish, spoon, or electric mixer.
Beat
Use a wire whisk or electric mixer to whip ingredients. This is rapid movement adds air and makes food fluffy.
Whip
Use a spoon, beater, or mixer to combine ingredients until soft and creamy such as butter and sugar.
Cream
Use a pastry blender or two knives using a cutting motion to mix solid fat with dry ingredients.
Cut in
Use a rubber scraper to gently combine ingredients in a delicate mixture, such as adding a lighter ingredient to a heavier one. (ex, whip cream into cake batter)
Fold
Chop food into pieces that are as small as possible, ex, mincing an onion.
Mince
Cut food into irregular pieces,
Chop
cutting off the outside of s fruit or vegetable.
Peel
Rub food over a grater to make fine particle or shredded food.
Grate or Shred
Moisten foods, such as meat, while cooking. Adds flavor and keeps food from drying out.
Baste
Decorate a food dish with a small decorative food item, such as parsley springs, vegetable confetti, carrot cuts, or edible flowers.
Garnish
Cooking a large pieces of meat or poultry in a shallow pan using dry heat. Using dry heat method the air circulates around the food, Always preheat your oven.
Roast
Cooking food directly under heat source, Thus is also dry heat.
Broil
