Did You Know – Cooking Terms #3
Discover twelve essential cooking terms like glaze, julienne, and marinate to elevate your culinary skills and impress your guests!
- GLAZE: To cover with a glossy coating, such as melted and diluted jelly for fruit desserts.
- JULIENNE: To cut vegetables, fruits, or cheeses into thin strips the size of matchsticks.
- MARINATE: To soak food in a savory, usually acidic sauce in order to tenderize or to enrich flavor.
- MINCE: To chop food into very small pieces.
- PARBOIL: To boil until partially cooked; to blanch.
- PARE: To remove the outer skin of a fruit or vegetable.
- POACH: To cook food by submerging it in a liquid that is at a temperature below boiling.
- SAUTE: To cook food in a small amount of butter or oil.
- SIMMER: To cook slowly in a liquid just below the boiling point.
- STEEP: To let food stand in hot liquid in order to extract or enhance flavor.
- TOSS: To combine ingredients with a repeated lifting motion.
- WHIP: To beat rapidly in order to incorporate air and produce expansion.
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Thanks for these
You’re welcome Derrick!
Thank you for reposting Ned! Have a great day!
thanks for these, I sometimes need fill in the blank help like this )
Haha You are welcome Beth!
I always learn something from your posts, Diane. I’m embarrassed to admit I did not know the definition of poach was that the water had to be below the boiling point. That makes sense, though. If you try to poach an egg in boiling water (I’m guilty as charged!), you end up with a mess.
I usually find something I didn’t know to Janet. I was guilty of the mess of an egg when I poached my first egg too.
Yay! I passed. 😂
I’m not surprised! Lol
It was fun!! 👏👍❤️
Lots of terms, some I have seen but did not know the meaning of. I think I have done “pare”, “toss” and “whip” only.
Occasionally I come across some I thought I knew but after reading the term realized I didn’t!
That’s interesting since you’ve been cooking and also having a recipe blog for so long!
True but I’m a pretty basic cook. Lol
Parboil is a new term for me! 😃 And Julienne is a fun word to throw into a sentence. 😆
Haha You’re so funny!
I am no food expert, but I knew most of the terms. Though ‘steep’ is new to me … maybe because I just call it ‘soak’ (but then it sounds as if I’m soaking laundry) 😂. I will remember ‘steep’ from now on!
You mean I taught you something new? Haha
😂 – I always learn something new from your blog!
Afternoon. “Parboil” is a term whose meaning I wasn’t sure about till I read your list. Do you parboil foods at times?
Take care. Neil S.
Yes I do, potatoes mostly.
Thanks for the food term education 🙂
You’re welcome!