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Cross-utilization

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In culinary arts & cooking, cross-utilization means: Planning to use the same ingredient or preparation in several different menu items.

In Turkish: aynı malzemeyi birden fazla yemekte kullanma

How it is used

Used in menu and prep planning to coordinate ingredient use across dishes.

Example sentences

  1. Cross-utilization let one tomato base support three sauces.

    One prepared component is deliberately shared across recipes.

  2. The chef improved cross-utilization when rewriting the lunch menu.

    The planning decision links multiple dishes through their ingredients.

Common collocations

  • ingredient cross-utilization
  • menu cross-utilization
  • 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.
  • food costThe cost of the ingredients used to make a dish or menu, often shown as a percentage of the selling price.

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