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Tamis

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, tamis means: A drum-shaped sieve with a flat mesh surface used to sift or refine food.

In Turkish: tambur elek

How it is used

Used for fine purées as well as dry ingredients; food is pressed or sifted through.

Example sentences

  1. The chef pressed the potato purée through a tamis.

    The mesh breaks up remaining small lumps in the purée.

  2. Sift the almond meal through the tamis for this filling.

    The flat sieve also grades a dry ingredient's particle size.

Common collocations

  • pass through a tamis
  • drum tamis
  • 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.
  • pastry chefA chef who specialises in desserts, pastries, breads and other baked goods and usually runs the pastry section of a kitchen. Also called a pâtissier.

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