Cooking

Cooking

The process of preparing food, usually with heat.

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Moisten

Culinary arts; Cooking

To add enough liquid to a dry ingredient or mixture to make it damp but not runny.

Clarified butter

Culinary arts; Cooking

Sometimes called drawn butter, clarified butter is best known as a dipping sauce for seafood. It is butter that has had the milk solids removed. Because clarified butter can be heated to high ...

Candied

Culinary arts; Cooking

A food, usually a fruit, nut, or citrus peel, that has been cooked or dipped in sugar syrup.

To cook food in a hot cooking oil or fat, usually until a crisp brown crust forms. To panfry is to cook food, which may have a very light breading or coating, in a skillet in a small amount of hot ...

Kosher salt

Culinary arts; Cooking

A coarse salt with no additives that many cooks prefer for its light, flaky texture and clean taste. It also has a lower sodium content than regular salt. Find it next to salt in the supermarket.

Grind

Culinary arts; Cooking

To mechanically cut a food into smaller pieces, usually with a food grinder or a food processor.

Bouillon

Culinary arts; Cooking

A bouillon cube is a compressed cube of dehydrated beef, chicken, fish, or vegetable stock. Bouillon granules are small particles of the same substance, but they dissolve faster. Both can be ...