Service Equipment Flashcards
(42 cards)
Identify types of knives
Chef, boning, paring, and serrated knives
It’s a go-to for chopping and dicing vegetables, fruit, and herbs. As well as cutting a variety of other ingredients like meat, poultry, and fish. They are usually 8 to 10 inches long, and the blade rounds at the tip.
Chef Knife
Has long, thin, flexible blades with a sharp tip to make piercing meat easier and safer. The blade is designed to cut through ligaments and connective tissue to remove raw meat from the bone
Boning Knife
are very versatile, and a mainstay of the professional kitchen as a result. Many cooks use them to peel or cut fruit and vegetables into small pieces, or to carry out other similar precision work.
Paring knife
with their scalloped, toothlike edge, are ideal for cutting through foods with a hard exterior and softer interior, such as a loaf of crusty bread
Serrated Knife
A mandoline is used to…
slice precisely.
A convection steamer…
is a food cooker that uses a fan to push hot steam and air around food to cook it faster than traditional steaming methods would. Use to to batch cooking and cooking vegetables
An immersion blender is…
can be used to mix, puree and emulsify just about anything a regular blender can. Think pureed soups, fruity smoothies, custom aiolis, fresh pestos, baby food and more.
A (hotel broiler) salamander is…
broiler designed to achieve perfect grilling, browning, finishing, and toasting in half the time of a standard oven broiler.
A deck oven is an oven…
that has multiple shelves on which to cook food directly.
A “wok hei” refers to…
a particular flavor produced by commercial wok cooking.
For proper cleaning of equipment, the operator should…
make sure the equipment is unplugged first before servicing.
A proofing cabinet is a piece of equipment that is…
designed to help yeast products proof properly.
What is a bain-marie?
A cylindrical pot that is used to keep hot food hot for service
A conventional or standard oven…
heats food from the bottom to cook the product.
Piping tools
Piping is a way of applying or shaping a preparation with a forcing (or piping) bag. It is the best way to distribute a mixture evenly and form regular shapes as it emerges from the nozzle
Parisian scoop
To form little balls of fruit (melon, avocado, mango) or vegetables (turnip, potato, zucchini, beet) in one simple gesture.
Scale
to measure the weight or mass of an ingredient, expressed in pounds, grams, fluid ounces, or milliliters
Mortar and pestle
works faster than a knife to crush nuts, pound garlic into a paste, smash ginger or chiles to infuse flavor, or grind whole spices into powders
cookie scoop
helps scoop and measure batters and dough. Despite referring to them as cookie scoops, they aren’t just for cookies! You can use them for portioning muffins, cupcakes, and other times I need to portion dough evenly.
Stand Mixer
help automate the repetitive tasks of stirring, whisking or beating. When the beaters are replaced by a dough hook, a mixer may also be used to knead. Used for Whipped Cream, bread dough, and cookie dough
True or false:
Properly cleaning equipment is very important for keeping our kitchen sanitary, it also ensures our equipment will last a long time.
True
Convection oven
heat transfer where food is heated by a moving heat source such as hot air inside an oven that is circulated by a fan. Roasting foods like meats and vegetables get browner, but the interiors stay moist.
Commercial dishwasher
is a machine used to clean dishware, cookware and cutlery automatically.
