Collection · 10 puzzles

Cooking & Nutrition Word Searches

Puzzles for the kitchen and for the family and consumer science classroom: cooking and its cooking terms, baking and barbecue, then the health side with nutrition, food and nutrition, food safety and a list of diabetes foods. The kitchen and culinary arts lists sit here as guests from the home and careers collections.

Browning is chemistry. In 1912 the French chemist Louis Camille Maillard described the reaction between amino acids and sugars that turns bread crust golden, sears a steak and roasts coffee beans dark; it needs about 280 degrees Fahrenheit, which is why a wet pan steams instead of browning. The USDA safe temperature for cooked poultry, 165 degrees, is lower than that, so a chicken can be done long before it looks it.