Aug 15, 2022 | Food Service
Regarding cooking techniques, it is safe to say that everyone who cooks is well aware of deep frying as the means to achieve deep golden fried goodness in food. But deep frying is not the only way to achieve a browned, crusty exterior to food. Chefs do another...
Aug 2, 2022 | Food Service
Deep frying is a dry-heat method that yields foods with crunchy golden brown surfaces and a tender interior. Dry heat cooking refers to any cooking technique in which the heat is transferred to the food item without extra moisture, resulting in a crusty...
Jul 25, 2022 | Food Service
The Chinese stir fry cooking technique has always been associated with flavourful dishes despite being cooked fast. People appreciate the complex smoky flavour and textural crunch of stir fry dishes, but many do not know what to call it. This intricate flavour...
Jul 18, 2022 | Food Service
The impressive move of tossing food in the air that Chefs do is, to some people, just that – done to impress. While this move certainly brings a panache or a certain air of coolness when executed, it is a culinary skill that serves a purpose. Tossing food...
Jul 12, 2022 | Food Service
Chefs execute various cooking techniques to achieve the desired outcome for a dish, and many cannot deny that the right cooking tools play a huge factor in success. For Asian cuisine, it is pretty impossible not to miss this most ubiquitous tool – the wok....
Jun 30, 2022 | Food Service
Every Chef loves to have the flavours of their dishes appreciated for how exactly they prepared them. However, when people dine on various dishes at a time or one after the other, flavours tend to get muddled. This is why palate cleansers are either eaten or...
Jun 21, 2022 | Food Service
Salty, sweet, sour, bitter and umami are five taste elements that form our perception of flavour. A perfectly balanced dish can elevate a dining experience, and mastering it involves understanding the elements thoroughly combined with other methods. How do...
Jun 13, 2022 | Food Service
Some foods, when tasted, can be easily distinctly identified either as sweet, salty, sour or bitter. However, some excellent tasting food is harder to describe. They are simply robust and delicious and leave you wanting more. And this is how we relate to the...
Jun 6, 2022 | Food Service
A Chef’s task in cooking is to capture their intent flavour profile by balancing the different flavours of ingredients they have. Of course, Chefs have the prerogative to be aggressive with their predominant flavour if that is what they truly want, but a...
May 30, 2022 | Food Service
In cooking, achieving a well-balanced synergy of flavours involves a Chef’s knowledge of what food items or chemical compounds affect the sour notes of a dish. Sourness, or tartness, is the taste that detects the presence of acids in our foods brought on...
May 23, 2022 | Food Service
In cooking, achieving a well-balanced synergy of flavours involves a Chef’s knowledge of what food items or chemical compounds affect the sense of the sweetness of a dish. Sweetness is produced by the presence of sugars, some proteins and a few other substances...
May 16, 2022 | Food Service
It is a universal knowledge that the process of cooking food involves the act of tasting to suit the desired flavour. It is a much-desired chef skill to achieve a balanced flavour when cooking dishes, regardless of the cuisine. And rightly so, because it is a...
