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A kitchen tool that enables eggs to be easily cooked when poaching is desired. There are a variety of different utensils for this purpose, such as individual metal cups, groups of connected cups, poaching spoons, microwavable poaching cups, poaching pans with poaching cups, and electric egg poachers.

A kitchen utensil that is used to strain liquids such as boiling water or to sift dry ingredients, such as flour or powdered sugar.

A meat product traditionally produced from a cut of pork that is taken from the side (belly) or back of the hog.

An electric baking machine built to produce single loaves of bread on the home kitchen countertop. There are a variety of different types of machines available each with many different features and baking options.

A kitchen tool, made from a variety of materials such as metal, plastic, silicone, or wood, that is constructed with a handle attached to a flat blade.

A lightweight paper material that has been coated lightly with a wax substance on both sides of the paper.

A traditional Asian cooking vessel shaped like a large deep bowl with a long and short handle or two short handles on opposite sides.

A type of seasoned, chopped or blended meat that is used as an ingredient for stuffing’s, appetizers, and main dishes such as meatballs, pâtés, galantines, or terrines.

A nut harvested from the branches of the Chestnut tree, a member of the beech family of plants. A prickly outer casing is removed to expose a dark brown, glossy shell that covers a sweet, but mealy fleshed nut.

A kitchen utensil used to grasp food so it can be moved from one location to another to be flipped, rotated, adjusted, or retrieved from areas that may be hot or simply best handled with a Tong.

A kitchen tool, typically made of materials such as wood, metal, or silicone plastic, that are specifically constructed to withstand high temperatures when used for baking or cooking foods.

A hand-held kitchen utensil that serves to blend, whip, whisk, chop, or slice small food items. The Immersion Blender, also known as a Hand Blender, is a good option for small tasks that do not require the heavy-duty aspects of a food processor.

The process of lowering the temperature of a food that was just cooked to a temperature 40 degrees F (4.4 degrees C) or less in a short period of time.

A food product produced from poultry that is used as both an ingredient and a main dish for baked foods.

A variety of waterfowl that may be wild and considered to be a game bird, or a type of duck domesticated and raised for food purposes.

food thickener, thickening agent, liason, beurre manie,

Round bowls of varying sizes that are used for combining food ingredients when preparing recipes. Mixing bowls are made of plastic, ceramic, glass, copper, and stainless steel that range in size from 4 inches in diameter to over 16" in diameter.

Escherichia coli, or E. coli which is a shorter version of the name, refers to an illness from foodborne pathogens that may be transmitted from: 1) Person to person if hands, utensils and counters were not washed thoroughly; 2) Ingesting contaminated liquid substances such as may occur by swimming in contaminated water, drinking raw milk or unpasteurized ciders and juices; 3) Eating food that is undercooked such as raw ground meat (hamburger or sausage)as well as meat infected during processing that is not cooked sufficiently to kill the bacteria; or: 4) Eating produce that is contaminated with bacteria, such as occurs with plants coming in contact with feces or sewage from contaminated water.