Cooking Techniques

Cooking Techniques

The Importance of Cooking Techniques

Cooking is fun, but we should always prioritize our safety first. The following are good habits to develop to prevent the contamination of food or injuring yourself and others.

Cutting Basics

• Treat your knife with respect.

• Do not try to open cans or other containers with a knife.

• Never throw a knife or try to catch a falling knife.

• Only use a knife or scissor for its intended purpose.

• Never leave a knife unattended.

Cutting Techniques

• When you're using a knife, cut away from your fingers out of the knife's path.

• If you need to, you can optionally hold down a piece of food by spearing it with a fork.

• Place the item you are cutting on a flat, stable surface such as a cutting board.

• Put a damp paper towel or dish towel under the cutting board to keep it stable.

Is this a safe way to use a knife?

Explain.

Is this a safe cutting technique?

Explain.

Fire Safety

When lighting a fire, you should always try to minimize your impact on your environment. We often use camp stoves to cook as they are easier to regulate heat to prevent burning and they take less time to set up when compared to a campfire.

Fire Safety

• Use camping stoves only where allowed and only with adult supervisions.

• Never use a stove inside a tent or cabin. There is a danger of fire and of poisoning by odorless gas fumes.

• Stoves sometimes flare up. Keep your head and hands to one side of a stove as you light and adjust it.

• Never leave a burning stove unattended.

• Allow hot stoves to cool before cleaning them and storing them away.

Bake

To cook in dry heat, as in an oven.

Roast

To cook meat and vegetables with dry heat, as in a pan in an oven or in aluminum foil covered by coals.

Boil

To cook in boiling liquid, usually water.

Is this a safe way to boil?

Explain.

Pan Frying

To cook in an open pan with a small amount of oil.

Deep Frying

A method of cooking in which the food is submerged in hot fat, most commonly oil.

Grill

To cook food directly over an open fire.