Cooking quiz - Statistics

General Stats
  • This quiz has been taken 308 times
  • The average score is 9 of 40
Answer Stats
Cooking Q Answer % Correct
What clear liquid is the most important to both cooking and life itself? Water
99%
What do you need to do to pasta in order to make it floppy and edible? Boil/Simmer
88%
What green vegetable looks like a small deciduous tree? Broccoli
42%
What is a long, hard, orange vegetable called? Carrot
41%
What type of pasta is in tubes that look like they're in italics? Penne
40%
What white vegetable looks like a small deciduous tree? Cauliflower
39%
What type of pasta is in long, thin, bendy, cylinders? Spaghetti
39%
What type of pasta is can contain a small amount of stuffing Tortellini/Ravioli
36%
Is this the 39th question of the quiz? No
35%
What should you do before any eating or making any meal? Wash hands
32%
Milk is an example of a(n) _______, where droplets of oil are suspended in water. Emulsion
31%
Is gelatinisation when starch absorbs water? Yes
31%
What type of pasta is in large sheets? Lasagne
29%
What white, sweet vegetable looks similar to a long, hard, orange vegetable? Parsnip
24%
What is the name of a knife edge with small indents or teeth? Serrated edge
24%
Air
20%
Egg yolk is an example of a(n) ________, a chemical which allows droplets of oil to be suspended in water. Emulsifier
20%
What type of pasta is in a bow tie shape, or a butterfly shape? Farfalle
20%
What temperature do you need to heat it to? 60°C/140°F
17%
What is the minimum temperature that you can cook and sterilise food? 60°C/140°F
17%
What beige foodstuff is made from plants and fungus, and is often cut by a knife with small indents or teeth, and is often smothered in a fatty water-in-oil emulsion? Bread
15%
What is the minimum temperature that you can legally (UK) cook commercial food at? 75°C/167°F
12%
Correct temperature
11%
An emulsifier has two ends, one is ______ and the other is ______ Hydrophobic
11%
When it gets heated to a certain temperature, what chemical starts absorbing lots of water? Starch
11%
Hydrophilic
10%
What method of heating goes through direct contact, for example in a pan? Conduction
9%
This is useful when _____ sauce. Thickening
9%
What type of pasta is in smooth, straight tubes? Ziti
9%
Claw
8%
Butter
7%
What method of heating goes through infrared rays? Radiation
5%
How long do you legally have to cook it at that temperature at least? 2 mins
4%
What are the two main methods for safely cutting food? Bridge
4%
What do pathogenic bacteria need to survive and reproduce? (and therefore stop them by changing one or more of these conditions) Correct pH
4%
Nutrients
4%
What are the 2 main examples of water-in-oil emulsion? Cheese
3%
What method of heating goes through the movement of air due to a fan or other air mover? Mechanical convection
1%
What method of heating goes through the movement of air due to uneven heating? Natural convection
1%
What beige foodstuff has to be cooked for a long time, and is cultivated in deep pits, and is popular in the polynesian and melanesian diet? Pulaka/Giant swamp taro/Cyrtosperma merkusii
0%
No matching quizzes found
Score Distribution
Percent of People with Each Score
Percentile by Number Answered
Your Score History
You have not taken this quiz