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Question from quiz: "which of the following is not recognized as one of the five basic tastes?"

Este es un quiz de cocina no muy difícil: veamos si eres chef de verdad o si sufres de mageirocofobia

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Julienning vegetables means slicing them into long, thin, matchstick-like strips.

Per USDA guidelines, chicken is considered safe to consume once the internal temperature registers at least 165ºF on a meat thermometer.

According to the USDA, at what temperature is chicken safe to consume?

Salmon being cooked in a skillet with oil

The opposite of searing would be **sautéing** — when food is cooked over more moderate heat.

This piece of salmon is being seared — or, cooked over very high heat for a short period of time to encourage the formation of a deeply-browned crust.

What technique is being used to cook this salmon?

In conventional ovens, heat only rises from the heating elements at the base of the oven.

Convection ovens utilize a fan to circulate hot air around whatever you're baking, resulting in a much more even cooking process.

What makes convection ovens different from conventional ovens?

There are three teaspoons in a tablespoon, _four_ tablespoons in 1/4 cup, and...well, you can probably figure out the rest.

Roasted chicken, laid flat on a grill pan

Spatchcocking is the process of removing the backbone from a whole chicken and breaking the breastbone, which allows the chicken to sit completely flat and cook more evenly than when kept intact.

The chicken below was butchered using which method?

Scientists have determined the five basic tastes to be sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami — the last of which encompasses savory, meaty flavors (and roughly translates to "the essence of deliciousness" in Japanese).

Which of the following is _not_ recognized as one of the five basic tastes?

Brown bits stuck to the bottom of a white skillet

Fond is easily turned into a delicious sauce when you _deglaze_, or add a bit of stock or wine, to loosen the bits up into a savory pan sauce.

_Fond_ is the technical term for those browned bits that stick to the bottom of your pan — especially when cooking meat or poultry.

\_\_\_\_\_\_ is the technical term for the browned bits that stick to the bottom of a cooking vessel.

Laminating dough involves folding butter into dough many, many times to create incredibly thin layers of pastry. When baked, laminated dough results in ultra-flaky, crisp layers — with croissants being the most quintessential example of this.

The buttery, distinct layers of a traditional croissant are created through a process known as \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.

The Maillard reaction is responsible for turning your foods richly golden-brown.

The \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ reaction is a chemical reaction between the sugars and amino acids in a food while it cooks, resulting in the browning of that food.

To quote _Ratatouille_, "anyone can cook." But you'll need to exercise those culinary muscles a bit more before you can call yourself a pro.

Gordon Ramsey saying "your best is not good enough"

You could use a cooking class or two.

You might need to do some brushing up here and there to reach full chef status, but you've got a strong foundation — and that's what really counts.

Gordon Ramsey saying "tough call tonight."

Not bad. Not bad at all.

Clearly you're a culinary whiz, and there's no task in the kitchen you're incapable of handling. Well done, chef!

Gordon Ramsey saying "your journey has been extraordinary"

Who's the chef? You're the chef.

Este quiz de cocina no es nada fácil, veamos si puedes con él o tienes mageirocofobia

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Here's A Not Very Hard Cooking Quiz — Let's See If You're A Genuine Chef Or Mageirocophobic

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