Culinary Terms

Gbogbo ọrọ náà

Open a recipe card or a restaurant menu and you meet a private language: blanch, saute, julienne, table d'hote, mise en place. To an apprentice these words look like a foreign code, and a cook who guesses at them ruins good food. Learn the terms and the same card suddenly reads like clear, step by step instructions.

This lesson groups the everyday kitchen vocabulary into five families, preparation, cutting, mixing and finishing, cooking techniques, and menu and service French, and teaches each one with a plain meaning and a Nigerian example. By the end you will be able to read a recipe line or a menu entry and say exactly what the cook must do.

Ebumnobi

  1. Define the common culinary terms used in the kitchen
  2. Explain the French and English culinary terms found in recipes
  3. Apply culinary terms correctly when following a recipe
  4. Interpret menu entries that use standard culinary terms
  5. Match culinary terms to the process they describe

Akọmọ Ojú-ẹkọ

A new apprentice reports for her first day at a busy restaurant in Ikeja. The head cook hands her a recipe card that reads: mise en place, blanch the ugu, saute the onions, then reduce the sauce and garnish. She can read every letter and understand none of it, so she stands frozen while the orders pile up. The problem is not her cooking, it is her vocabulary. Every trade has its own words, and catering borrows most of its own from French because the modern professional kitchen was organised in France. A cook who knows these culinary terms reads a recipe the way you read this sentence: instantly, and without guessing.

Ayẹwo Ẹkọ

Ekele diri gi maka imecha ihe karịrị na Culinary Terms. Ugbu a na ị na-enyochakwa isi echiche na echiche ndị dị mkpa, ọ bụ oge iji nwalee ihe ị ma. Ngwa a na-enye ụdị ajụjụ ọmụmụ dị iche iche emebere iji kwado nghọta gị wee nyere gị aka ịmata otú ị ghọtara ihe ndị a kụziri.

Ị ga-ahụ ngwakọta nke ụdị ajụjụ dị iche iche, gụnyere ajụjụ chọrọ ịhọrọ otu n’ime ọtụtụ azịza, ajụjụ chọrọ mkpirisi azịza, na ajụjụ ede ede. A na-arụpụta ajụjụ ọ bụla nke ọma iji nwalee akụkụ dị iche iche nke ihe ọmụma gị na nkà nke ịtụgharị uche.

Jiri akụkụ a nke nyocha ka ohere iji kụziere ihe ị matara banyere isiokwu ahụ ma chọpụta ebe ọ bụla ị nwere ike ịchọ ọmụmụ ihe ọzọ. Ekwela ka nsogbu ọ bụla ị na-eche ihu mee ka ị daa mba; kama, lee ha anya dị ka ohere maka ịzụlite onwe gị na imeziwanye.

  1. The culinary term 'mise en place' means: A. Cooking food slowly in liquid B. Having all ingredients prepared and arranged before cooking begins C. Decorating a finished dish D. Setting the dining table for guests Answer: B
  2. To blanch a vegetable is to: A. Fry it in deep oil until brown B. Cook it slowly for several hours C. Plunge it briefly in boiling water, then cool it quickly D. Blend it into a smooth paste Answer: C
  3. Which cutting term means to cut food into thin matchstick strips? A. Dice B. Mince C. Julienne D. Brunoise Answer: C
  4. On a menu, 'table d'hote' describes: A. Dishes each priced and ordered separately B. A fixed set of courses served at one fixed price C. A small dish served before the main meal D. The chef in charge of a kitchen section Answer: B
  5. To 'deglaze' a pan is to: A. Add liquid to lift the browned bits stuck to the pan B. Rub oil over the pan before frying C. Boil a sauce until it thickens D. Skim fat from the surface of a stew Answer: A

Àwọn Ìwé Tó Dáa Láti Kà

The Theory of Hospitality and Catering
The Theory of Hospitality and Catering
Ìkọ̀wé-àbáojú: Fourteenth edition
Onkọwe atẹjade: Hodder Education
Afọ: 2021
ISBN: 978-1-3983-3295-9
Akọkọ ọrọ.: The standard theory text for catering students, covering the industry, food commodities, cooking, kitchen operations, hygiene and safety, menu planning and food and beverage service.
Food and Beverage Service
Food and Beverage Service
Ìkọ̀wé-àbáojú: Tenth edition
Onkọwe atẹjade: Hodder Education
Afọ: 2020
ISBN: 978-1-3983-0015-6
Akọkọ ọrọ.: The established reference on restaurant and banquet service, service staff and their duties, styles of service, table laying, and the service of food, wines and other beverages.
Practical Cookery
Practical Cookery
Ìkọ̀wé-àbáojú: Eleventh edition
Onkọwe atẹjade: Hodder & Stoughton
Afọ: 2004
ISBN: 978-0-340-81147-4
Akọkọ ọrọ.: A long-established practical text taking students through methods of cooking, the preparation of food commodities and the production of dishes across the full range of the kitchen.

Àwọn Ìbéèrè Tó Ti Kọjá

Nna, you dey wonder how past questions for this topic be? Here be some questions about Culinary Terms from previous years.

WAEC SSCE - Catering Craft Practice - 2022

Ajụjụ 1 Ripọtì

Give the meaning of the following terms used in the hospitality industry.

(a) Check-in; 

(b) Reservation;

(c) Forecast;

(d) Walk-in.

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