Science General

Culinary Techniques

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Culinary techniques encompass the various methods and processes used in cooking, baking, and food preparation. This includes specialized approaches like molecular gastronomy, clay oven baking, and traditional boiling or simmering. Questions on these topics are common in hospitality management and culinary arts exams.

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Culinary Techniques Questions

Multiple choice

Vegetables can be cooked quickly in a pressure cooker because

  1. steam can boil vegetables faster than water

  2. boiling point increases with the increase in pressure

  3. high pressure lowers the boiling point

  4. all the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

A pressure cooker traps steam, which increases the internal pressure. According to the laws of thermodynamics, an increase in pressure raises the boiling point of water, allowing food to cook at a higher temperature.

Multiple choice

What is used to make a non stick cookware?

  1. Teflon

  2. Nylon

  3. Talon

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Teflon (polytetrafluoroethylene) is the synthetic polymer used to coat non-stick cookware because of its low friction and heat resistance.

Multiple choice

Doctors recommend that we should cook our food in oil rather than in vanaspati ghee. Why?

  1. Oil makes food tasty

  2. Oil contains unsaturated fats

  3. Vanaspati ghee is difficult to digest

  4. Oil contains saturated fats
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Cooking oil is plant, animal or synthetic fat used in frying, baking and other types of cooking. It is also used in food preparation and flavoring that doesn't involve heat, such as salad dressings and bread dips, and in this sense might be more accurately termed edible oil. When vanaspati is made, trans fatty acids are also produced; these increase the risk of heart disease when consumed in excess and are best avoided. 

Multiple choice

In a bowl, rice is taken and boiled in water for a few minutes. Then milk and sugar are added so as to prepare a dish. Which among the following are considered as the ingredients of the dish?

  1. Water and milk

  2. Bowl and gas cylinder

  3. Rice, water, sugar and milk

  4. Bowl, rice, water, sugar and milk
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The raw materials required for preparing a dish are called ingredients. Thus, rice, water, sugar and milk are called ingredients.

Multiple choice

Choose the correct order for making chapati.
  1. Wheat grain $\to$ grinding $\to$ dough making $\to$chapati
  2. Dough making $\to$ grinding $\to$ wheat grain $\to$ chapati
  3. Wheat grain $\to$dough making $\to$ grinding $\to$ chapati
  4. Grinding $\to$ wheat grain $\to$ dough making $\to$ chapati
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Grind the wheat grain into fine powder and then knead the flour with water into dough and make chapati with the dough.

Multiple choice

What is the use of mortar and pestle?

  1. To separate the seeds from husk

  2. To crush the cob

  3. To mix different kinds of seeds

  4. To chop the vegetables
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Bajra cobs are crushed in the mortar with a pestle.