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Cooking Terms, Part X

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Cooking Terms Part X game quiz
"Do you wish that every cookbook included a glossary? Are some cooking terms so obscure that you keep a culinary dictionary in your kitchen? Can you identify these cooking terms (as well as you did in my last nine quizzes on the same subject)?"

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1. Zest, in a culinary context, is both a verb and a noun. In the bathroom context, it is a bar of soap! What is the meaning of this verb in cooking?
    To remove the thin coloured flavourful surface of a citrus peel
    To sprinkle chopped edible flower petals over a dish at time of service
    To sprinkle herbs and spices over a dish at time of service
    To add finely minced hot chile peppers to a dish to give it a boost of hot flavour


2. Chafing is not usually a good thing. Skin irritated by rubbing chafes. Annoying people chafe. A line on a sailboat worn by rubbing on a metal surface is chafed. What is a chafing dish?
    A dish into which shredded or grated food is deposited
    A covered dish with a heat source to keep foods warm for service
    Any recipe in which the meat is slow-cooked and shredded before service, e.g. pulled pork
    A dish in which seeds are heated to separate them from their coverings which are then discarded


3. Chef wants to serve a roasted pork tenderloin with glazed sweet onions. Which of the following onions is not considered "sweet"?
    Walla Walla Onions from Washington State
    Granos Onions from Texas
    Maui Onions from Hawaii
    Spanish yellow Onions from California


4. What do you add when the recipe calls for three cups of "tomato concassé"?
    Canned whole tomatoes
    Dice of peeled and seeded fresh ripe tomatoes
    Tomato water obtained by chopping tomatoes and straining out all the solids
    A smooth puree of peeled cooked tomatoes


5. Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius or 212 degrees Fahrenheit under normal barometric pressure (30 in. Hg) at sea level. Denver, Colorado, is called the Mile High City because its altitude above sea level is 5280 feet (1609 meters). Assuming normal barometric pressure, at what temperature does water boil in Denver?
    94.4 degrees Celsius or 202.89 degrees Fahrenheit
    100 degrees Celsius or 212 degrees Fahrenheit
    101.1 degrees Celsius or 214 degrees Fahrenheit
    86.1 degrees Celsius or 188 degrees Fahrenheit


6. On "Saturday Night Live", Cheri Oteri played Nadine, a cashier at Burger Castle who repeatedly told her customers to "simmer down." Simmering has a very specific meaning in culinary terms. What does it mean?
    To cook food in a perforated pan or basket above boiling water
    To cook food inside a sealed plastic bag suspended in boiling water
    To cook food in a liquid at a rapid boil
    To cook food in a liquid at a temperature just lower than the boiling point


7. Chinese five-spice powder adds a unique flavour to all manner of Chinese dishes. It is especially useful as a rub or in a marinade for meat, poultry and fish. Which of the following is a typical basic recipe for five-spice powder?
    Szechuan peppercorns, star anise, thyme, fennel seeds, cloves
    Szechuan peppercorns, ginger, cinnamon, fennel seeds, tarragon
    Szechuan peppercorns, star anise, cinnamon, fennel seed, cloves
    Szechuan peppercorns, nutmeg, cinnamon, oregano, cloves


8. Chef asks you to cube a peeled potato. How should you do to it?
    Slice it into slabs, cut the slabs into planks, and cut the planks into cubes, all of equal dimensions on every side.
    Run the potato through a cuber -- an electrical appliance which cuts grooves or scores in the surface of food.
    Cut away as much of the potato as is necessary to produce a single cube, equal on all sides.
    Season the potato with Southeast Asian cubeb berries.


9. A visiting chef from Malaysia introduces a number of new foods, new flavours and new ways to cook. She then asks you "What is the difference between rendang and rambutan?"
    Rambutan is beef cooked in coconut milk and rendang is a sweet white fruit covered with hairs or soft spines.
    A rambutan is also known as an African cucumber, horned melon or melano; a rendang is also known as a dragon fruit, a strawberry pear or a pitaya.
    There is no difference; they are two different words -- one Malay, one Thai -- for the same thing.
    Rendang is beef cooked in coconut milk and rambutan is a sweet white fruit covered with hairs or soft spines.


10. Macbeth says, to an apparition of a king, "Thy crown does sear mine eye-balls" in Act IV of "The Tragedy of Macbeth." What does it mean when a cook sears an ingredient?
    To quickly cook the surface of food (usually meat) over high heat
    To wilt a vegetable by tossing it in a hot dry pan
    To dehydrate an ingredient by long exposure to heat
    To cut into a jagged edge with notches or teeth


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Compiled May 25 13