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Food Prep
Home & Careers
7 grade
Use a spoon to make circular or figure eight
motions.
Use a spoon to stir two or more ingredients
together thoroughly.
Used to add air to foods. You can use a whisk,
spoon or electric mixer.
ex. beating eggs.
This rapid movement adds air and makes
food fluffy.
Use a wire whisk or electric mixer to whip
ingredients.
Use a spoon, electric mixer, or Kitchen Aid
mixer to combine ingredients.
Cream butter and sugars until soft and
creamy.
Use a pastry blender or two knives, using a
cutting motion to mix solid fat with dry
ingredients.
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)
Chop food into pieces that are as small as
possible
ex. mincing an onion.
Cut off the outside covering of a fruit or
vegetable
Ex. Paring an carrot or peeling a potato.
Rub food over a grater to make fine particles
or shredded food
ex. Grating cheese.
Moisten foods ,such as meat, while cooking.
Adds flavor and keeps food from drying out.
Decorate a food dish with a small decorative
food item, such as parsley sprigs, vegetable
confetti, carrot curls, or edible flowers.
Cooking large pieces of meat or poultry in a
shallow pan using dry heat.
Always preheat your oven before you Roast
Cooking food directly under a heat source.
This is also using dry heat.
Using a dry heat method the air circulates
around the food.
Baking can include cookies and cakes as well
as meats and vegetables.
Always preheat your oven before you bake.
Heating liquid at a high temperature so that
bubbles rise and break on the liquid surface.
Boiling point is 212°F
Cooking food over boiling water rather than
in it using a metal basket placed over the
boiling water.
Steaming vegetables is a healthy way to
conserve the nutrients.
Heating liquid to a temperature just below
boiling point until bubbles barely break on
the liquid surface.
Food is cooked by completely covering it in
fat.
Ex. French fries, fried chicken, onion rings.
Smaller amounts of fat are used
Ex. fry tender cuts of meats, fish, and eggs in
a skillet.
Involves stirring and cooking small pieces of
food quickly at high heat in little fat.
Vegetables, meat, fish, and poultry can be
stir-fried.
Stir-frying is often done in a wok.
To lightly mix ingredients
Example: to toss a salad
To mix by folding, stretching, or
pressing dough
Example: kneading biscuit dough,
kneading pizza dough