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101 Culinary, Cooking, Food Terms and Definitions Every Chef Knows
Common culinary terms range from ways to prepare food and sauces to kitchen items to dishes themselves. These cooking definitions often come from other languages like French and Italian and can be challenging to understand. Learning the basics of cooking vocabulary will help you to interpret ...
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The Essential Glossary of Cooking Terms for the Culinary Arts - Escoffier
June 14, 2024 - Culinary professionals must be familiar with culinary terms! Browse this glossary of French cooking terms for immersion in the language of the kitchen.
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104 Culinary Terms Every Restaurateur Should Know
December 7, 2021 - If you work in a restaurant, you need to know the proper terms for cooking techniques, ingredients, dishes, and jargon. Culinary terms are a common language that keeps everyone on the same page.
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Culinary arts · Culinary name · Curdling · Curing (food preservation) Dark cuisine · Deconstructed cuisine · Deep frying · Deglazing (cooking) Degustation · Development chef · Dicing · Duxelles · Engastration · Fermentation in food processing · Fillet (cut) Flambé ·
Culinary Arts Academy
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Culinary Terms: 50+ Essential Words Every Chef Should Know
Sauces, stocks, and other liquids provide depth of flavor and texture to many dishes. There are a variety of culinary words that describe techniques, preparations, and consistencies relevant to them, including the following:
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The Ultimate A to Z Guide of Culinary Terms for Chefs and Restaurant Staff | MarketMan
Culinary terms are essential words and phrases that cover everything from cooking techniques and food preparation to ingredient handling and plating.
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The Essential Dictionary of Culinary Terms
Infusion - A culinary technique that involves steeping ingredients such as herbs, spices, fruits, or vegetables in a liquid (such as water, oil, or alcohol) to extract their flavors. This process allows the liquid to take on the essence of the infused ingredients, adding depth and complexity to dishes or beverages.
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Culinary Terms 101: Mastering Culinary Lingo from A to Z
June 20, 2025 - Culinary terms are words and phrases used in preparing, presenting, and consuming food. They are often terminology associated with specific cooking methods, ingredients, cooking and serving styles, and equipment.
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25 Culinary Terms Every Foodie Should Know - Kitchen Tips | What's for Dinner?
October 22, 2025 - We all come across unfamiliar words in recipes and on menus. Learn the definitions of common culinary terms and let your inner chef out.
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100 Must-Know Culinary Terms: Vocab You Need to Know
June 19, 2024 - Culinary terms are defined as specialized vocabulary used to describe processes, items, and other descriptors used in a kitchen or restaurant.
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r/Cooking on Reddit: What are some interesting cooking terms?
August 16, 2023 -
I like to add butter right at the end of meals I make. I found out this is called 'mounting' butter.
What are some other terms/phrases that are not commonly known within the context of cooking?
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Culinary Terms - Learning to Cook with Lessons from the Cooking Dude
January 3, 2022 - A comprehensive list of culinary terms to become familiar with when learning how to cook with free online lessons and recipes from the Cooking Dude.
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Cooking Term Glossary: Common Culinary Terms - Colorado Spice
Mince – This is a preparation technique referring to dividing an ingredient into small, uniform pieces. Check out our blog on Everyday Culinary Tips to learn more about mincing.
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Culinary Terms—Cooking, Baking, & More | Calphalon | Calphalon
A french culinary term to describe diced fresh tomatoes.
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Culinary Dictionary Index - What's Cooking America
September 27, 2021 - An outstanding and large culinary dictionary and glossary that includes the definitions and history of cooking, food, and beverage terms.
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Culinary Vocabulary Flashcards | Quizlet
Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Aromatic, Aerate, A La Carte and more.
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Cooking terms glossary | Real Life, Good Food
Have you ever read a recipe and been confused by what certain terms mean?
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8 Crucial Culinary Terms Every Chef Knows | Salt Lake Culinary Education
August 1, 2024 - A French phrase meaning “everything in its place,” mise en place refers to the key step of culinary prep work – gathering, washing, trimming, and chopping your ingredients and setting them out for yourself before beginning any actual cookery.
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r/Cooking on Reddit: Culinary terms that don't or are confusing to translate?
October 15, 2024 -
The discussion of the 'coriander/cilantro' problem in a recent post, brought this to mind.
What other culinary terms don't translate clearly between American English and other languages (including non-American English)?
The ones that spring to my (Irish) mind are 'tomato puree' (US: concentrated tomato paste) and 'passata' (US: puree, I think...still confused); 'jam/jello/jelly'; and apple cider (not alcoholic in US).
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In Finnish there is a soft cheese (not a spread) called cream cheese (kermajuusto), and what I call cream cheese is referred to as either Philadelphia or "fresh cheese" (tuorejuusto). Then there's the verb "paistaa" which is usually translated as "fry" but can mean pan-frying, deep-frying, sauteeing, baking in the oven, or grilling, and is also the verb used to say that the sun is shining. The recipe usually tells you where/in what kind of pan/pot/dish you're going to cook in, at least. Finns will also call plain tortilla chips "nachos," which is frankly the least offensive thing they've done to TexMex. Then yeah there's the apple cider, and also lemonade, which in Finland is any kind of fizzy fruit flavored drink. When I lived in England I got into a kerfuffle trying to order a sandwich at a shop that had a choice of breads and fillings. I ordered a chicken salad sandwich on a baguette, and the owner told me that it was not a sandwich, it was a baguette if it's served on a baguette. Then I was surprised to find that "chicken salad" meant sliced chicken with lettuce, not american chicken salad.
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Peppers/chilis/capsicum. Some cultures differentiate sweet from spicy varieties, and "chili powder" can mean either ground chilis or a spice blend that can be used in chili (the dish).