Only A True Chef Can Pass This Kitchen Vocabulary Quiz

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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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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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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.

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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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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Oeuf is a French word for what food?

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Milk
Egg
Flour
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Salt

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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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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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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?

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?

Oh no! The kitchen is out of a dish. What do you say to communicate that?

Which of these is not one of the French mother sauces?

What does BOH stand for?

Let’s get weird. What the heck is isinglass?

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”?

Oeuf is a French word for what food?

You’re at your station and a server yells at you to “fire the omelet!” what do you do?

In most kitchens, each station has a setup of basic ingredients to cook from. What’s it called?

Why is it called meez?

If you're working on fabrication, what are you doing?

Last question - how would you rate this quiz?

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