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Kitchen Nightmares
Kitchen Nightmares (Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, UK original) is a Gordon Ramsay reality franchise in which he rescues failing restaurants; five UK series from 2004, a US run 2007-2014, revived on Fox in 2023 with seasons through 2026.
Kitchen stove
Kitchen stove: a household appliance with a cooktop, often combined with an oven in a range. Types include gas, electric resistance, and induction (~85% efficient vs ~1/3 for gas). Covered by IEC 60335 safety standards and ISO cookstove performance tiers.
Kitchen utensil
Kitchen utensil: a hand-held small tool for food preparation, cooking, serving, or eating; covers knives, spatulas, pots, and ladles, spanning stone metates, aluminium's 1925 to 1950 peak, and modern food-contact regulation.
Knafeh
Knafeh, also spelled kunafa or kanafeh and known in Turkey as künefe, is a Middle Eastern dessert made with pastry, a cheese or cream filling, and sugar syrup. Versions occur across Palestine,.
Knickerbocker glory
Knickerbocker glory: a British layered ice cream sundae in a tall glass, first recorded in a 1915 US soda fountain handbook, named from Washington Irving's Knickerbocker, famous at Fortnum & Mason since 1956.
Knish
Knish (Yiddish קניש), Ashkenazi Jewish baked or fried dough pastry filled with mashed potato, kasha, or onion; New York street food since about 1900, first knish bakery 1910.
Knödel
Knödel are boiled or steamed dumplings of Alpine cuisine, called Klöße in northern Germany, made from potato, bread, flour, semolina or meat, with Neolithic Mondsee evidence and a 13th-century Hocheppan fresco.
Kobe beef
Kobe beef (神戸ビーフ, KOBE BEEF) is certified wagyu from purebred Tajima cattle raised and slaughtered in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, meeting BMS 6+, meat quality 4+, yield A/B, and carcass weight limits; defined in 1983, GI Registration No. 3, under 0.2% of Japan's beef market.
Kofta
Kofta (Persian kufta/koofteh, "pounded meat") is a minced-meat dish family of Persian origin, shaped as balls or fingers and grilled, fried, boiled, or simmered; spread across the Middle East, Mediterranean (köfte, kefta), and Mughal India, with varieties like kufta tabrizi and Daud Basha.
Kogi Korean BBQ
Kogi Korean BBQ (Kogi BBQ) is a Los Angeles food-truck business founded November 2008 by Mark Manguera, Caroline Shin-Manguera, and chef Roy Choi, known for Korean-Mexican short rib tacos and Twitter-based location broadcasts that helped launch the gourmet food truck movement.
Kokoretsi
Kokoretsi (Greek κοκορέτσι, Turkish kokoreç) is a grilled Balkan-Anatolian dish of lamb or goat intestines wrapped around seasoned offal; the Greek Easter version includes organ meats, the Turkish street version is chopped and served in bread.
Kölsch (beer)
Kölsch is Cologne's pale, top-fermented, hop-accented full beer, about 4.8% alcohol, served in 0.2-liter Stange glasses; protected by the 1985/1986 Kölsch-Konvention and an EU protected geographical indication.
Kombu (Laminaria japonica) extract
Kombu (Laminaria japonica) extract, also called kombu or dashima extract, is an umami flavoring from Japanese kelp; GRAS-notified as GRN 123 (Fuji Foods, 2003) for soups, seasonings, and meat products, and rich in soluble iodine.
Kombucha
Kombucha, also called kōcha kinoko (red tea mushroom), is a lightly effervescent fermented sweetened tea made with a SCOBY culture; origins traced to China around 220 B.C., pH 2.5-4.2, under 0.5% alcohol, thin human health evidence.
Kompot
Kompot (компот, kompocik, uzvar/vzvar) is an Eastern European non-alcoholic drink of fruit boiled in sweetened water, jarred for winter; distinct from French compote, with 16–24% syrups and 10–25 min pasteurization.
Kona coffee
Kona coffee: premium Arabica coffee, mostly Kona Typica, grown on a narrow 20-mile belt of Hawaii Island's western slopes; ~2 million pounds of green beans yearly, protected by state labeling law rising to 51% in 2027.
Konpeitō (金平糖)
Konpeitō (金平糖) is a traditional Japanese sugar candy that originated from the Portuguese confeito. It is made by coating a seed core with syrup in a rotating pan.
Kool-Aid
Kool-Aid, originally Kool-Ade, is an American powdered drink mix created in 1927 by Edwin Perkins in Hastings, Nebraska, from his Fruit Smack syrup; owned by Kraft Heinz, mascot Kool-Aid Man, official soft drink of Nebraska.
Kool-Aid Man
Kool-Aid Man, the anthropomorphic glass-pitcher mascot of Kraft Heinz's Kool-Aid drink mix; created as the Pitcher Man in 1954 and fully realized in 1975, famous for bursting through walls while shouting "Oh yeah!".
Koozie
Koozie (KOOZIE®) is a US registered trademark of Koozie Group (Scribe Opco) for insulated beverage holders, coined in Texas in 1979 and sold by Radio Cap Corporation from 1980, yet widely used generically for foam can coolers.
Kopi luwak
Kopi luwak, or civet coffee, is an Indonesian specialty coffee made from beans excreted by the Asian palm civet; among the world's most expensive coffees, it faces animal welfare criticism over caged civets and authenticity fraud.
Korean barbecue
Korean barbecue (K-BBQ; 고기구이) is dining where meat such as bulgogi, galbi, and samgyeopsal is grilled at the table's center with banchan. It differs from American barbecue by tabletop cooking, shared grills, skewer-derived jeok roots, and group-coded social ritual.
Korean cuisine
Korean cuisine (한식, hansik) is the traditional food of the Korean Peninsula, defined by fermentation: kimchi, jang sauces, and jeotgal, developed in geographic isolation and promoted globally since the 2008 Global Hansik Campaign.
Korean Englishman (영국남자)
Korean Englishman (영국남자) is a YouTube channel created 7 June 2013 by British creators Josh Carrott and Oliver Kendal, introducing Korean food and culture to British audiences in Korean and English; about 6.2 million subscribers, with a second channel, Jolly.
Korean fried chicken
Korean fried chicken (치킨, chikin): double-fried, starch-coated fried chicken from South Korea, with yangnyeom sweet-spicy or soy-garlic glazes; born of post-Korean War US influence, paired with beer as chimaek.
Korma (قورمہ)
Korma (قورمہ, qorma, kurma) is a South Asian braising technique and dish family from Mughal cuisine: meat or vegetables slow-cooked in yogurt, cream, or nut paste, with northern creamy, southern coconut, and mild British restaurant variants.
Kosher foods
Kosher foods, or kashrut, are foods permitted under Jewish dietary law from Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14: no pork or shellfish, shechitah slaughter, no meat with dairy, and rabbinic certification such as the OU hechsher.
Kosher restaurant
Kosher restaurant: a food-service establishment certified as compliant with kashrut by a rabbinic agency or Israel's Chief Rabbinate, run under a mashgiach's supervision; distinguished from uncertified kosher-style venues and from certifying agencies such as OU, OK, Star-K, and Kof-K.
Kosher salt
Kosher salt, better called koshering salt, is a coarse-grained salt used to draw blood from meat in kashering; its large crystals and lack of iodine made it the default salt of American chefs and recipe developers.
Kosher wine
Kosher wine is wine made under Jewish dietary law: Sabbath-observant Jews must handle production from crushing to bottling, and yayin mevushal (flash-pasteurized cooked wine) keeps kosher status even when handled by non-Jews.