waffle
A crisp, pancake-like batter product that is cooked in a specialized griddle that gives the finished product a textured pattern, usually a grid. Also a special vegetable cut that produces a grid or basket-weave pattern. Also known as gaufretre.

walk-in refrigerator
A refrigeration unit large enough to walk into. It is occasionally large enough to maintain zones of varying temperature and humidity to store a variety of foods properly. Some have reach-in doors as well. Some are large enough to accommodate rolling carts as well as many shelves of goods.

wasabi
Japanese version of Horseradish.

whisk or whip
Looped wires are formed into a teardrop shape, joined together with a long handle and used to mix ingredients; to whip, you beat the ingredients, letting air into them, until they are fluffy

white chocolate
Cocoa butter flavored with sugar and milk solids. It does not contain any cocoa solids, so it does not have the characteristic brown color of regular chocolate.

whole-wheat flour
Flour milled from the whole grain, including the bran and germ. Graham flour is a whole-wheat flour named after Sylvester Graham, a nineteenth-century American dietary reformer.