Cooking Food Flashcards
1
Q
What is conduction?
A
Heat passes for one molecule to the other.
E.g. Saucepan-ring to metal to food
2
Q
What is convection?
A
The movement of gases,convection currents
E.g. Fan oven-hot air rises, cooks sinks
3
Q
What is radiation?
A
Heats first solid it strikes.
E.g. Grilling
4
Q
What are moist methods?
A
Boiling Simmering Poaching Stewing Steaming
5
Q
What are dry methods?
A
Baking
Grilling
6
Q
What are methods using fats?
A
Frying
Roasting
7
Q
What is microwave cooking?
A
Produces electromagnetic waves-molecules vibrate-heats food.
There is standing time after item comes out of microwave-molecules still vibrating
8
Q
Why cook food?
A
Kills Bacteria, improve flavour/colour, easier to digest.
