Cooking Q | Answer | % Correct |
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What clear liquid is the most important to both cooking and life itself? | Water | 99%
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What do you need to do to pasta in order to make it floppy and edible? | Boil/Simmer | 88%
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What green vegetable looks like a small deciduous tree? | Broccoli | 40%
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What is a long, hard, orange vegetable called? | Carrot | 39%
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What white vegetable looks like a small deciduous tree? | Cauliflower | 39%
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What type of pasta is in long, thin, bendy, cylinders? | Spaghetti | 37%
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What type of pasta is in tubes that look like they're in italics? | Penne | 34%
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Is this the 39th question of the quiz? | No | 33%
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What type of pasta is can contain a small amount of stuffing | Tortellini/Ravioli | 33%
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Milk is an example of a(n) _______, where droplets of oil are suspended in water. | Emulsion | 32%
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What type of pasta is in large sheets? | Lasagne | 30%
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What should you do before any eating or making any meal? | Wash hands | 30%
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Is gelatinisation when starch absorbs water? | Yes | 29%
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What white, sweet vegetable looks similar to a long, hard, orange vegetable? | Parsnip | 25%
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What is the name of a knife edge with small indents or teeth? | Serrated edge | 25%
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What type of pasta is in a bow tie shape, or a butterfly shape? | Farfalle | 21%
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Egg yolk is an example of a(n) ________, a chemical which allows droplets of oil to be suspended in water. | Emulsifier | 19%
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Air | 18%
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What temperature do you need to heat it to? | 60°C/140°F | 14%
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What is the minimum temperature that you can cook and sterilise food? | 60°C/140°F | 14%
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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 | 14%
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What is the minimum temperature that you can legally (UK) cook commercial food at? | 75°C/167°F | 11%
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Correct temperature | 11%
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When it gets heated to a certain temperature, what chemical starts absorbing lots of water? | Starch | 11%
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What type of pasta is in smooth, straight tubes? | Ziti | 11%
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Claw | 9%
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What method of heating goes through direct contact, for example in a pan? | Conduction | 9%
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Hydrophilic | 9%
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An emulsifier has two ends, one is ______ and the other is ______ | Hydrophobic | 9%
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Butter | 7%
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This is useful when _____ sauce. | Thickening | 6%
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What are the two main methods for safely cutting food? | Bridge | 5%
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What do pathogenic bacteria need to survive and reproduce? (and therefore stop them by changing one or more of these conditions) | Correct pH | 5%
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Nutrients | 5%
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What method of heating goes through infrared rays? | Radiation | 5%
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How long do you legally have to cook it at that temperature at least? | 2 mins | 4%
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What are the 2 main examples of water-in-oil emulsion? | Cheese | 3%
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What method of heating goes through the movement of air due to a fan or other air mover? | Mechanical convection | 2%
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What method of heating goes through the movement of air due to uneven heating? | Natural convection | 2%
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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 | 1%
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