Culinary Tools Quiz

____ are rectangular stainless steel pans used to hold food in steam tables, warmers, and refrigerators.

• Hotel pans

• Sheet pans

• Chinois

• Rondeau

What is the conduction property of copper?

• excellent

• good

• poor

• unknown

What is the weight property of stainless steel?

• heavy

• medium

• light

• unknown

What is the cost property of stainless steel?

• high

• medium

• low

• unknown

Aluminum is the most widely used material for commercial cookware. What factor(s) contribute most to it being the preferred material?

• Aluminum is more expensive and heavier.

• Aluminum is lightweight and costs less.

• Aluminum is heavier and conducts heat poorly.

• Aluminum is rare and difficult to find.

Sets of measuring spoons are useful for measuring small amounts of ingredients such as ____.

• sugar and salt

• herbs and spices

• sugar and spices

To measure large quantities of food when it is delivered to the kitchen, foodservice operations use a ____ scale.

• portion

• balance-beam

• receiving

A ____ scale has two platforms and a set of counterweights.

• portion

• balance-beam

• receiving

A ____ is a type of ____ that has a finely woven, metal mesh.

• china cap

• chinois

• china cap

The sieve through which cooked foods, usually potatoes, are placed and forced through with the plunger is a ____.

• drum sieve

• ricer

• chinois