Cooking
This section looks at how to cook, and the tools used. In processes you will find lots of videos and images showing you how to do things like whisk. In the equipment section we have collected together lots of the tools commonly used in cooking.
Processes
- Bain Marie
- Baking - Cakes
- Baking (Roasting) - Meat
- Basting
- Beating
- Binding
- Blanching
- Blind-baking
- Bolting Flour
- Braising
- Breadcrumb making
- Browning meat
- Chilling
- Chopping
- Coating
- Coring Apples
- Creaming
- De-seeding
- De-stoning - fruit
- De-stalking or hulling - fruit
- Dicing
- Draining
- Dropping Consistency - creating this
- Dropping spoonfuls
- Dry frying
- Folding in
- Frying or sweating down
- Gelatin - using this
- Glazing
- Grating
- Grilling and toasting
- Grinding
- Greasing
- Icing
- Infusing
- Joining pastry
- Julienne cut vegetables - making these
- Kneading
- Lining a cake tin
- Marinating
- Mashing
- Measuring - with cups
- Measuring - liquid
- Measuring - using spoons
- Melting
- Peeling
- Poaching
- Pouring - cake mixture into a tin
- Preheating
- Proving
- Pureeing
- Reducing
- Rolling out - pastry
- Roux Sauce - Making
- Rubbing in
- Salting
- Seasoning
- Separating an egg
- Shredding
- Sieving or sifting
- Simmering and boiling
- Soaking
- Steaming
- Stir frying
- Testing - Meat
- Testing - vegetables
- Thawing
- Thickening
- Top and tail - vegetables
- Tossing
- Turning out - Controlled melt
- Washing - fruit
- Weighing
- Whisking
