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Culinary can best be defined as anything relating to a kitchen
or to cookery or anything relating to or used in cooking. Whether you are
a culinary enthusiast or a culinary professional such as chefs,
restaurant management, dieticians or nutritionists you all have one thing
in common - "a love for cooking".
The emerging world of culinary arts offers talented and committed individuals
a wide spectrum of opportunity and self satisfaction.
The following are some common culinary terms for cooking techniques:
Bake: Cooking technique that uses dry heat.
Barbecue - To cook food, especially meat, with direct heat over coals or
in a broiler.
Blanch - To partially cook food by immersing in boiling water.
Boil - A cooking technique that uses moist heat. Food products are cooked
in boiling liquid until done.
Braise - A cooking technique that uses dry and moist heat. Primarily used
for tougher cuts of meat that require cooking until connective tissue breaks
down and becomes tender.
Brochette - Meat broiled and served on a skewer.
Broil - A cooking technique that uses dry heat and high temperatures.
Broiling is used for tender single-size cuts of meat, fish or poultry.
Deep-fry - To cook thin, tender food products completely submerged in
fat.
Grill - A cooking technique in which foods are cooked by a radiant heat source
placed below the food.
Pan fry - Too cook small, thin pieces of meat, fish, poultry or
vegetables in a shallow fat (the product may also be breaded).
Poach - A cooking technique that uses moist heat. Tender items are cooked
gently in a simmering liquid. The liquid from the poached item sometimes may be
used to make an accompanying sauce.
Roast - A cooking technique that uses dry heat. Tender, multi-portion
cuts of meat are most often roasted (i.e., roast top round of beef).
Sauteé - To cook quickly in a small amount of fat.
Simmer - A moist heat cooking technique. Cooking foods in a gently
simmering liquid.
Whether you are a culinary enthusiast or a culinary
professional cooking is your art, your self expression, and even your
passion. While cooking can be exhausting, it is also exhilarating.
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