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Batch cooking

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, batch cooking means: Preparing a quantity of food together as one production run rather than separate orders.

In Turkish: partiler halinde toplu pişirme

How it is used

Used in production planning; cooks discuss batch size and coordinate several portions in one run.

Example sentences

  1. Batch cooking allowed the team to prepare soup for the banquet.

    Several servings are produced in one coordinated run.

  2. The kitchen compared batch cooking with cooking each order separately.

    The contrast concerns how production is organized.

Common collocations

  • batch cooking plan
  • small-batch cooking
  • prepShort for preparation: the work of getting food ready before cooking or service, such as washing, peeling, cutting, portioning and making sauces. Also used as a verb.
  • yieldThe amount or number of portions a recipe produces; also the usable weight of an ingredient left after trimming, boning or peeling.

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