Cruise Ship Menus - A Closely Guarded Secret of Cruise Lines

All cruise lines in the world pride themselves on the dining experiences they are able to provide their passengers; however, one thing seems to be quite intriguing as all the cruise ship menus do seem to be kept hidden away. Locked in vaults aboard the cruise ships. You can try finding a menu off ship and I’m sure you can’t.

Not unless you took one with you. The common practice for cruise lines is to send out their least skilled chefs on shorter cruises in order for them to study their trade. If they fail to satisfy the passengers and they cook the same food three nights in a row, they are very likely to be forced by irate passengers to walk the plank.

Cruise ship chefs are well versed in preparing delicacies, foods that are particularly prized within a given culture. Delicacies are often rare foods that are difficult to obtain or prepare, and as a result may only be served for special occasions. Often the rarity or difficulty to prepare a dish causes it to be comparatively more expensive than other local foods.

A cruise ship menu is normally divided into several parts such as cocktails, soups, fish, entrees, roasts, vegetables, cold buffet, salads, dressings, desserts, cheese, and beverages.

The menu commonly measures 9" by 11" closed and opens up to display menu items. Besides serving, tin fish beef and rice bought in town, cruise ships serve various foods that even locals take for granted. Tourists enjoy them as delicacies. Among them are mangoes, sweet pineapples, flying fox, island cabbages and coconut crab. There are also other nuts such as fleshy fruit nouse, natapoa and much, much more.

There are various types of cooking gear which are used for dining aboard cruise ships. Their ovens are one kind. They are used for baking, roasting and present for dry heat cooking methods. Diverse cuisines use special models of ovens, like the Indian culture use the Tandoor oven. It is a cylindrical clay oven which operates at only high temperature, whilst western kitchens will utilize changeable heat convection ovens, conventional ovens, the common toaster ovens adding together a non-radiant heat oven like microwave ovens. These ovens may use many materials to be fire. They may be wood-fired, coal, gas, oil, or electric fired.

There are varieties of cooking -tops are being used on cruise ships as well. They carry the same type for fuel types like ovens that were mentioned above. Cooking-tops are being used to warm vessels located on top of the temperature source like pressure cookers, Sauté pans, sauce pot, frying pan, and etc. This type of equipment can be used for different cooking methods.

Moist or dry cooking includes methods such as boiling, steaming, poaching and simmering for moist method; whilst dry methods include sautéing and deep or pan frying. Additionally, many cultures, use grills for food preparation. Grills operate by means of a radiant heat source from underneath which is typically enclosed with a metal grid which occasionally has a cover, open bit barbecues in southern America is one example. Along with the American style outdoor. Grilling is fueled by wood, charcoal or liquid propane with soaked wood for smoking.

So when you go aboard a cruise ship, you can rest assured that the cruise ship menus will have something for all passengers regardless of culture.