Notes

Notes

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13 Org. Cooking Methods
1 Baking        8 Poaching
2 Boiling        9 Roasting
3 Braising      10 Saute
4 Broiling       11 Simmer
5 Deep fry      12 Steaming
6 Pan fry        13 Stewing
7 Grilling
9 Basic Items needed in a recipe
  1. Title          8. Serving Amount   
  2. Measurements
  3. Ingredients   9. Equip List
  4. Preparation
  5. Yield % left over
  6. Serving size
  7. Yield % loss
Veg Classification
Onions                    Mushroom truffel
Seed & pods            Stalks
Roots and tubers      Greens
                Baby Veg.
Executive Chef:
Sous-chef or Executive sous
Line Cooks
Pastry Chef
Assistants and Apprentices:
Short order
Institutional
Chefs to know:

Antoine Careme founder of grand cusine
Auguste Escoffier brigride style in kitchen classic french

Fernand Point

Paul Bocuse (Olympics. and Globalizing cusine)
Alain Chapel
Louis Outher
George Perrier
Jean Perrier
Troisgros
Standardized Recipes

1 Title
2Measurments by weight
3 Ingredients  
4 Prep
5 Yield % (left over) % of loss
6 serving size
7 yield (IE 64 cups)
8 serving amount
9 equipment list
Cooking Metals

Copper, reactive conducts heat the best

Condiments:
 any item that can me added to a food after it has been cooked to add flavor
Need to know what is in:
Chinese 5 spice-
Italian spice-
Herbs of Providence-
Masalla-
Veg
Roots and tubers
2 pods and seeds
3 onions
4 greens
5 mushroom
Dairy products:

Whole milk 3.5% fat  8.5% other         solids 88% water. aprox.
Skim or Non fat- less than 0.5%
Low fat is 0.5% to 2% 

Butter:

Knife
use the claw technique for safety. real sharp knife so you don't bruise items.

  Cheffernade,  "made of rags",  to slice into very thin strips or shreds.
     Slice -  diagonal oval shape slice,
            butterfly cut.

Dice  Large 3/4 x 3/4 x 3/4
         Med 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2
         Small 1/4 x 1/4 x 1/4
 
Batunea  -1/4 x 1/4 x 2
Julian - 1/8 x 1/8 x 2
Fine Julian 1/16 x 1/16 x 2
Bruroise - 1/8 x 1/8 x 1/8
Paysaeme - 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/8
Tourne - is a 7 sided equal cut- Hardest cut and is usually pre-bought
Paristennes - cutting fruit and veg in balls.  IE. melon ball
Kitchen staples
Anything that is constantly used in the kitchen.  Ready at hand.

Herbs
are the green leafy part. dry is added in the beginning. fresh at the end.
Spices are seeds, bark, and fruits.

Teas:
Oolong
Black
Green
Stocks
Clear
Flavor unseasoned
Free of oils and fats
Cold water is added so impurities float to the top to skim off. 
Do not boil
Broth has meat on bones.

Base is used by most places for replacements for stocks. IE bullion.


Roux is an equal amount of oil and flour.
cold stock into hot roux
personal experience warm stock in hot roux
White, Blonde and Brown.


5 Mother sauces: Need to know at least 2 derived sauces from each sauce.
Bechamel
Veloute
Espagnole (Lyonaise, Robert)
Hollandaise (Mayonnaise
Tomato


Dairy:                                                                                            18 Jan 11
Whipping cream 36% butterfat 
Sour cream 18-30%
Half and half 10-18%
60% removed with carmelization evap. milk.
Sweetened condensed
Dry milk powder %.5-2%
Cultured yogurt, creme fresh, forced air. butter
Salted butter 2.8% salt added
Euro butter 82-85% butterfat.
Clarified butter 75-78% butterfat

Does contain cholesterol.

Not Dairy
Margarine. diet margarine is sometimes 50% water.

Eggs: 50 grams best natural emulsifier.
160 degrees is when the yoke is coagulated.
145 degrees is when the white is coagulated.
Arosil an air pocket where some/most nutrients are derived.
Egg
Easy egg (egg beaters)
Frozen or freeze dried. Powdered
Substitutes, Soy, Milk.
30 days or by use date.
Grading: AA, A, B.
Baking and sauteing.

over easy 145 degrees
over medium 145
over hard 160
soft cook  simmered (poached)
hard cooked simmered (poached)
consomme soft peak.
souffles medium peak.
mousse hard peak.



Starches:                            Complex meal: A Starch, Veg, and Protein.
Grains, Potatoes. and Pasta.

Part of a balanced meal. 

Potatoes:   Mealy and Waxy
High starch content good for baking, mashed potato.
Low starch, thin skin, best for boiling and hold together well.

Grade A:  Potatoes.  Purchasing and storing.
Store at 50-60 degrees. if stored under 40 starch turns to sugars,  moisture promotes spoilage.

Cooking methods:
roasting and baking dauphinoise, saute, pan fry, deep fry, boiling, steaming.

Grains: Corn, Wheat, Barley, Rice, etc. couscous. millet. quinoa,

Oats come in.  Steel cut, rolled, instant.


Rice: 
Short high starch low protein. - 1:3-4
Medium, moderate starch and proteins - 1: 2-3
Long - low starch  high protein. 1:75

Different cooking methods.

Pasta, Flour, water and/or (eggs) salt and oil.
Ribbons:
Tubes:
Shaped:

Asian: rice stick, bean starch, buckwheat.
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When the grading is done they look for:
Color, Marbleization, uniform shape
Carcass is void of        19 Jan 11
Fur
Intestines
Offal (refer to the entrails and internal organs of a butchered animal.)
Hooves

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All meat is subject to inspection from the USDA
All grading is done between 12 and 13th rib
Yield Grading
Bone & Fat
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Intramuscular  Between bones/ribs
Inter-muscular
Subcutaneous fat does not melt or breakdown.
                                                                                          19 Jan 11carcass
Rigor starts 12 hours, ends aprox. 3 days.  Must age meats
Wet aging air vac and ages in it's own juices.
Dry aging: Temp controlled environment. 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------                        Primal cuts:
Chuck,                                              Rib.
brisket and shank                           Short Plate
Hind quarter                                    Round
Loin
short loin
sirloin
flank       
                                      
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Beef
Prime
Choice
Select
Standard

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Veal:
Prime
Choice
Good
Select

Beef is meat from a domesticated cattle.  usually from a steer.
Cattle: usually not eaten due to the hormones released.
Calves: Veal, male or female
Cows: Milk and calf
Heifer is a young female cow that hasn't had a calf.
Stag: castrated bull.
Steers are castrated young for their meat.
Pork:
USDA 1
USDA 2
USDA 3
peeled skin muscle on
Poultry:
subject to inspection
Grade A no deformities, no broken bones, skin intact.
Grade B  Ground etc.
       Poultry                   19 Jan 11
Chicken            Duck              Pigeon 
Geese             Turkey              Guineas    
                                                     
Roasting duck is 4-6 lb bird less than 6 weeks old. Long island (Peking duck) Muscvy duck usually the better quality duck.
Pigeon-aka squab over 4 weeks.
Turkey-low fat, dual meat.
Ratite-Big birds, Emu, Ostrich etc, red meat low fat. cooks like veal, med rare.
Forie gras- fatty liver usually from ducks and from geese.

                Poultry                                                   19 Jan 11
No fat inside of meat,
Birds who have white meat are non flying
Dark meat is usually from muscles that are being used.
Cooking temp, it must be 165 degrees.
Touch                                     Internal temp of the largest part.
looseness of the joints            Color of juices (should be mostly clear)
Time                                     
Preparation
Fat is good.
Barding  tie a piece of fat to dissolve with the food
Larding is injecting fat into the meat.
Marination: does not have salt. or shouldn't have salt
Brine: Salt
Degrees of done
Rare: Cool red center - under 130 degrees
Med rare: warm red center - 135 to 140
Med: warm pink with thin red line- 140-145
Med well pink- 145-150
Well done: no pink-155 above
20 Jan 2011            Hot foods safety
1. Assume that all pots/pans are always hot.
2. Watch out for hot hot steaming swim.
when foods need to be added
3.

20 Jan 2011
ACF
Protein 4-6 oz
Veg 3-4 oz
Starch 3-5 oz.
Is always the base of the plate and it helps with the height of the plate.  are usually soft as a good contrast to the Al dente to the veg.
Al dente is the rule
ACF goes you should always have a green veg. on plate
Round plates always in odd numbers
Square plates always in evens.

texture
color
flavor
shape
cooking technique


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