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This 50-word culinary word search covers essential cooking techniques and ingredients for high school students in culinary or family-and-consumer-science classes. Hidden words include julienne, caramelize, ratatouille, tenderize, and macerate, spanning knife skills, heat techniques, and preparation methods. Use it as a unit review, a free-time activity in a professional kitchen class, or edit it as a template for related cooking-vocabulary puzzles.

Subject:
Life Skills
Topic:
Cooking
Grade Level:
9th – 12th Grades
Updated October 2017

Word List

  • ACIDS
  • AMBROSIA
  • ANCHOVY
  • CARAMELIZE
  • CLARIFY
  • DEGLAZE
  • ECLAIR
  • EGGPLANT
  • ESPRESSO
  • FABRICATION
  • FILLET
  • GRATE
  • GRIDDLE
  • HABANERO
  • HOMOGENIZE
  • JULIENNE
  • KNEAD
  • MACERATE
  • MARINATE
  • MINCE
  • PARBOIL
  • PEEL
  • POACH
  • POUND
  • PUREE
  • QUENCH
  • RATATOUILLE
  • REDUCE
  • RICE
  • ROAST
  • SAUTE
  • SCALD
  • SCALE
  • SEAR
  • SEASON
  • SEED
  • SHRED
  • SIFT
  • SIMMER
  • SKEWER
  • SKIM
  • STEAM
  • SUPREME
  • TEMPER
  • TENDERIZE
  • TOURNE
  • UNLEAVENED
  • WHIP
  • ZEST
  • ZAHTAR

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