Cooking Methods Vocab Quiz

The action of cooking something in an oven or over an open fire is called...

• Baking

• Steaming

• Roasting

• Poaching

When you're making ground beef for tacos or lasagna, the process of cooking the ground beef until brown is called...

• baking

• boiling

• roasting

• browning

When food is cooked in liquid at around 190 degrees F which is below boiling, this is called...

• Simmering

• Poaching

• Boiling

• Steaming

When moist heat and dry heat are used to cook one food item, that is called...

• Dry heat

• Moist heat

• Combination heat

The process or technique of cooking food by heating it in steam from boiling water is called...

• Poaching

• Boiling

• Sauteing

• Steaming

In order to make pasta, you need to use the cooking method _____________ and the water should be at 212 degrees F.

• Steaming

• Roasting

• Sauteing

• Boiling

_______________ an egg requires cooking in outside of the shell in water that is at at least 160 degrees F

• Scrambling

• Poaching

• Baking

• Basting

True or False: Deep frying is a moist heat cooking method

• True

• False

______________ is a form of cooking that involves dry heat applied to the surface of food, commonly from above, below or from the side.

• Baking

• Grilling

• Browning

• Frying

True or False: Boiling requires moist heat

• True

• False