Culinary

Culinary

Of or pertaining to the art of cooking and preparing foods.

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costing

Restaurants; Culinary

The assigning of a price of each service offered. This includes food, labor, overhead and profit margins.

cross contamination

Restaurants; Culinary

The contamination of a food product from another source. The three main ways cross contamination can occur includes food to food, equipment to food and people to food.

deglaze

Restaurants; Culinary

Adding liquid to a skillet that has been used to cook meat. This makes a flavorful sauce.

chaffing dish

Restaurants; Culinary

A metal dish that is filled with water and kept warm with a candle or fuel cell underneath. These are typically used on buffets.

To provide food or service for an individual or group. Food or restaurant catering is the business of people who work in licensed commercial kitchens, who are properly insured and who are trained to ...

bussing

Restaurants; Culinary

Term used for clearing off and resetting tables after guests have left. In busier restaurants this is done by the busboy (also called a busser).

braise

Restaurants; Culinary

Method of cooking where food (usually meat, sometimes vegetables) is browned in fat then placed in a tightly covered container and cooked for a long time. This technique helps meats become very ...