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I need a blonde with sand and sweep the floor! If this sentence is Greek to you, you may not be ready for our kitchen vocabulary quiz. Find out if you can keep up with the big dogs and define these words!Once you answer all the questions, you will get your results from this quiz. Submit your answersShow More
I need a blonde with sand and sweep the floor! If this sentence is Greek to you, you may not be ready for our kitchen vocabulary quiz. Find out if you can keep up with the big dogs and define these words!Once you answer all the questions, you will get your results from this quiz. Submit your answers by selecting an option below each question. All answer options will load for you once you reach them. For best results, answer the questions in a row. Once you know your results, don’t forget to check the rest of the fun quizzes we’ve prepared for you. Good luck!
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1
If you are working on a dish with multiple components and you want to tell another chef that it will be 5 minutes until the dish is done, what do you say?
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5 out
5 up
Call in 5
Down to 5
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2
There are a lot of "b" words in cooking: baking, basting, braising. Which one is a combo cooking method in which you first sear at high temperature, then cook in a low temperature in liquid?
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Browning
Blanching
Basting
Braising
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3
Oh no! The kitchen is out of a dish. What do you say to communicate that?
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Nix it!
It’s 86’d!
None up.
It’s been fixed.
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4
Which of these is not one of the French mother sauces?
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Hollandaise
Espagnole
Veloute
Marinara
Bechamel
Sauce tomat
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5
What does BOH stand for?
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Boss of house
Bring out hors d’oeuvres
Back of house
Big, old, and hornery
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Let’s get weird. What the heck is isinglass?
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Baby eels.
It’s another name for brains.
It’s the splinters that emerge when you cook liver.
It’s a form of gelatin from fish bladders.
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Which of these words means “the process of softening or breaking into pieces using liquid, often referring to fruit or vegetables, in order to absorb the flavor of the liquid”?
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Miserate
Macerate
Masticate
Marinate
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8
Oeuf is a French word for what food?
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Milk
Egg
Flour
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Salt
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9
You’re at your station and a server yells at you to “fire the omelet!” what do you do?
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Put the omelet on the grill.
Take the omelet off your to do list.
Cook the omelet an extra minute.
Start cooking the omelet.
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10
In most kitchens, each station has a setup of basic ingredients to cook from. What’s it called?
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Fiet
Block
The set
Meez
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Why is it called meez?
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It’s slang for “mine.”
It’s short for mise en place, meaning set in place.
It’s shorthand for “meats’n’stuff.”
It’s from mise le table, meaning “set the table.”
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If you're working on fabrication, what are you doing?
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Creating a meat substitute.
Prepping your meat, poultry, and fish.
Filling something with other ingredients.
Preparing ingredients before the restaurant opens.
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