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A device used for checking the doneness of meat or other foods to ensure that the appropriate and safe internal temperature has been achieved.

Any of a variety of different types of wine that are used to enhance the flavor of food dishes, such as meat, poultry, seafood, stew, vegetables, and sauces, while they are being cooked.

Originating in the U.S., this term describes the combining of two types or styles of food preparation and cooking into one fused result.

Eggs boiled in their shells until the whites are firm and the yolks are partially firm but not completely firm, as they would be in a hard-cooked egg.

A method, passed down by Native Americans, of cooking meat or fish on a seasoned wooden board. The food takes on some of the flavor from the wood while cooking, which is generally done by baking or broiling.

A type of egg that is cooked in the shell until the yolk and the white are completely solid. In order to accomplish this use fresh eggs that are warmed to room temperature.

Produced as a finishing tool for baked goods, this utensil is most often used to add the golden tan surface to crème brulée desserts by caramelizing sugar sprinkled over the top.

Meat that has been cooked for a period of time that is considered to not be long or short, leaving the center sliightly warm and somewhat dark pink to dark in color.

Also known as boiled ham, the meat is cured, shaped, and cooked in steam or water. It is then packaged whole or sliced and sold as luncheon meat.

A ham that has been thoroughly heated during some part of the processing to a temperature exceeding 147° F, making it ready to eat without further cooking.

A ham that has been heated during some part of the processing to an internal temperature exceeding 137°F but less than 148° F.

A commercial sprayer that dispenses a very fine mist of extra-virgin olive oil to coat unheated pans to prepare them for grilling, sautéing, broiling, roasting or baking.

A product that is generally made from fermented and partially cooked soybeans, but is also made from other legumes and grains, such as barley, rice or quinoa.

The name given to the sweet tasting skin, composed of a soy protein-lipid complex, that forms on soy milk after it has been heated and then cooled.

A type of domestic fowl raised for its flesh, eggs, and feathers. Chickens are slaughtered at different ages to be processed for different purposes and classified according to their use such as broilers, fryers, roasters, and stewers.