Most Common Cooking Terms
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When trying to eat healthy it’s important to cook at home. The reason for this is that we don’t always know how food is being prepared in a restaurant. Learning to cook can be a challenge without the knowledge of the most common cooking terms.
What are the Terminologies Used in Cooking?
This is an important question so I prepared a guide for the most common cooking terms. Understanding these terms can help to be more efficient in the kitchen when learning to cook at home.
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Guide to the Most Common Cooking Terms
- Bake-To cook in an oven
- Blend-To mix ingredients together with a spoon, fork, mixer or immersion blender
- Boil-To heat a food so that it gets hot enough for bubbles to rise and break the surface
- Brown-To cook over medium heat until outside surface of food is darkened
- Chop-To cut into small pieces
- Drain-To remove all the liquid using a colander or strainer
- Grate-To scrape food over the holes of a grater making thin pieces
- Knead-To press, fold and stretch dough with hands until it is smooth
- Marinate-To soak food in a liquid to tenderize or add flavor to it
- Mash-To squash food with a fork or masher
- Mix-To stir ingredients together with spoon or electric mixer until well combined
- Puree-Food is cooked, ground, pressed, blended with an immersion blender or sieved to the consistency of a creamy paste or liquid. Check out this immersion blender.
- Preheat-To turn the oven on ahead of time to get heat to a desired temperature
- Saute-To cook quickly with oil or butter
- Steam-To cook food over steam without putting directly in water I use a steamer like this
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I hope this guide helps you learn the most common cooking terms. Leave a comment below how it has helped you be more healthy in the kitchen. I’ve used some of these common cooking terms in my recipes.
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