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Kitchen Terminologies:
Kitchen Utensil: A small hand-held tool used for food preparation.
Kitchen Equipment: Items that handle the bulk of preparation and cooking.
Cutting Tools and Equipment: Chopping, slicing, and pounding ingredients.
Measuring Tools and Equipment: Measuring dry, liquid and solid ingredients
and temperature.
Mixing Tools and Equipment: Blending, straining and flattening ingredients.
Cooking tools and Equipment: Preparing the ingredients.
Baking Tools and Equipment: Baking.
Other Tools and Equipment: Storing, transferring, or a container for
ingredients and food.
Cleaning Terminologies:
Cleaning: Process of removing dirt, that can be seen by the naked eye using
cleaning agents.
Cleaning Agents/Hard-Surface Cleaners: Used to remove dirt, dust, stains,
and bad smells.
Sanitizing: Removing microorganisms that remain on the tool or equipment
despite cleaning by heat, radiation and chemicals
Disinfecting: Removing microorganisms but the solutions used are stronger.
Cleaning Agents:
Water: Is the most powerful and popular solvent
Detergent: Comes in liquid, bar and powder. Used for washing dinnerware, table
surfaces, tools, utensil and equipment.
Solvent Cleaners: Known as Degreaser, used for cleaning tools where grease has
burned.
Acid Cleaner: Removes mineral deposits and other soil that cannot be removed using
detergents.
Abrasive Cleaner: Used to remove heavily soil in tools that cannot be removed using
detergents.
Carbon Tetrachloride: Colorless organic compound with a sweet smell and used in
fire extinguishers.
Ammonia: Colorless gas with a pungent smell. Contributes to the nutritional needs by
serving as a precursor to foods.
Borax: Known as sodium borate, consists of soft colorless crystals that dissolve easily
in water
Sodium Bicarbonate: White solid Crystalline, that appears as a fine powder.
Dishwashing Detergent: Removes food and grease, used in a washing machine.
Proper Dishwashing:
1. Remove leftover food
2. Stack the dishes in: Glassware, Silverware, Chinaware, Utensils
3. Pre-rinse
4. Wash
5. Rinse
6. Sanitize
7. Air-dry
Purpose of Packaging
Packaging: Process and materials used for containing, protecting, delivering,
and preserving goods after preparation.
- It keeps the products clean and provides a barrier
- Prevents losses and provides convenience
- Provides Identification
Packaging Type
- Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
Food Labels
Labelling: Process of writing or pasting details about the product.
- Name of Food, List of Ingredients, Net contents, weight, information of
manufacturer, nutritional information.
Lesson 3.1: Preparing Appetizer
Terminologies:
Appetizer: small amount of food or drink usually taken before the main course
to stimulate appetite. Enhances the taste buds.
Hot Appetizer: served in higher temperature, soup-based, made from bread
or sizzling
Cold Appetizer: served in a lower temperature
Classification of Appetizers
Canapes: Small pieces of bread, toast or cracker spread and topped with a
Seasoned food mixture.
Cocktails: Kind of appetizer in the form of a fruit, mixed with alcoholic drink.
Vegetables Hors D’OEUVRES: Salty, tart or crispy food that uses vegetable
slices as base and the inside part is scooped and stuffed with fillings.
Over the Coal Appetizer: Served outside and the guests attend the grilling.
Skewered on fine barbecue sticks.
Soup and Consommés: Liquid food made of meat.
Party or pastry Bread: Different fillings and different shapes
Chips and Dips: It is a bite size foods that are dipped into the product.
Petite Salad: Display the characteristic found in a salad.
Relishes: Cooked and pickled product made of chopped vegetables.
Lesson 3.2: Salad and Dressing
Parts of a Salad:
Base: bed of leafy greens properly cut and laid on top of the plate
Body: main ingredient of the salad or main attraction
Dressing: gives the salad its flavor, sauce to enhance.
Garnish: consists of food elements that add form, texture and color.
Lesson 4: Sandwiches
Terms:
Sandwiches: made up of one or more slices of bread.
Bread: Kind of food made of flour that is mixed with water and milk.
Types of Bread:
Loaf Bread or Pullman: Most commonly used bread for sandwiches.
Quick bread: Used for a sweeter tasting sandwich
Wraps: Very thin, flat breads used for sandwich wraps.
Flat Breads: Flattened unleavened breads that come around from the globe.
Buns and Rolls: Excellent choice for making Sandwiches.
Spreads: Adds moisture, flavor and richness to the sandwich and act as a
Barrier between the filling and bread.
- Sealant for the bread
- Flavor
- Moisture
(Butter, Mayonnaise, Purees)
Hot sandwiches: Hot fillings, usually meats, May contain non-hot items.(Parmesan
tuna sandwich)
Types of Sandwiches
Closed Sandwiches: adding filling to two bread slices, placed one on top.
Open-Face Sandwiches: Applying fillings while allowing the bread to stand
apart.
Triple-Decker or Multi-Decker Sandwich: Three or more slices of bread
Finger Sandwiches: sliced into bite size pieces for appetizers.
Wraps: Flat-folded bread with fillings tucked inside.
7. Pita Salad, Blue Cheese and Sundried tomato dressing, baba Ganoush
Traditional Salsa with Baked Chips,
8. Party or Pastry Bread, Chips and Dips, Over the Coal, Cocktails, Canapes
Petite salad, Soup and Consommés, Vegetables Hors D'OEUVRES, Relishes
11. Egg, Coleslaw, Fruit, Potato, Serbian, Chicken, Garden, Dinner, bound,
Dessert, Vegetable, tuna
13. Garnishes, Spreads Filling, Finger, Multi Decker, Open Face, Closed, Wraps
Kitchen Terms
- A small hand-held tool used for food preparation.
- Items that handle the bulk of preparation and cooking.
- Chopping, slicing, and pounding ingredients.
- Measuring dry, liquid and solid ingredients and temperature.
- Blending, straining and flattening ingredients.
- Preparing the ingredients
- Storing, transferring, or a container for ingredients and food.
Cleaning terms
- Process of removing dirt, that can be seen by the naked eye using cleaning
agents.
- Used to remove dirt, dust, stains, and bad smells.
- Removing microorganisms that remain on the tool or equipment despite
cleaning by heat, radiation and chemicals
- Removing microorganisms but the solutions used are stronger.
Cleaning Agents
- Is the most powerful and popular solvent
- Comes in liquid, bar and powder. Used for washing dinnerware, table
surfaces, tools, utensil and equipment.
- Known as Degreaser, used for cleaning tools where grease has burned.
- Removes mineral deposits and other soil that cannot be removed using
detergents.
- Used to remove heavily soil in tools that cannot be removed using detergents.
- Colorless organic compound with a sweet smell and used in fire
extinguishers.
- Colorless gas with a pungent smell. Contributes to the nutritional needs by
serving as a precursor to foods.
- Known as sodium borate, consists of soft colorless crystals that dissolve
easily in water
- White solid Crystalline, that appears as a fine powder.
- Removes food and grease, used in a washing machine.
Sort:
1. Rinse
2. Wash
3. Pre-rinse
4. Stack the dishes in: Glassware, Silverware, Chinaware, Utensils
5. Sanitize
6. Remove Left over food
7. Air-dry
Classifications of Appetizers
- Small pieces of bread, toast or cracker spread and topped with a Seasoned
food mixture.
- Kind of appetizer in the form of a fruit, mixed with alcoholic drink.
- Salty, tart or crispy food that uses vegetable
slices as base and the inside part is scooped and stuffed with fillings.
- Served outside and the guests attend the grilling. Skewered on fine barbecue
sticks.
- Liquid food made of meat.
- Different fillings and different shapes
- It is a bite size food that are dipped into the product.
- Display the characteristic found in a salad.
- Cooked and pickled product made of chopped vegetables.
Parts of A Salad
- bed of leafy greens properly cut and laid on top of the plate
- main ingredient of the salad or main attraction
- gives the salad its flavor, sauce to enhance.
- consists of food elements that add form, texture and color.
Types of Bread:
- Most commonly used bread for sandwiches.
- Used for a sweeter tasting sandwich.
- Very thin, flat breads used for sandwich wraps.
- Flattened unleavened breads that come around from the globe.
- Excellent choice for making Sandwiches.
Flavors of Salads
- Adds moisture, flavor and richness to the sandwich and act as a Barrier
between the filling and bread.
- Heart of the sandwich. Provides the body of the sandwich.
- Makes sandwiches visually more appealing.
Types of Sandwiches
- adding filling to two bread slices, placed one on top.
- Applying fillings while allowing the bread to stand apart.
- Three or more slices of bread
- sliced into bite size pieces for appetizers.
- Flat-folded bread with fillings tucked inside.