This is a list of cooking techniques commonly used in
cooking
Cooking, also known as cookery or professionally as the culinary arts, is the art, science and craft of using heat to make food more palatable, digestible, nutritious, or Food safety, safe. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely, from ...
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food preparation
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Cooking
Cooking, also known as cookery or professionally as the culinary arts, is the art, science and craft of using heat to make food more palatable, digestible, nutritious, or Food safety, safe. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely, from ...
is the practice of preparing
food
Food is any substance consumed by an organism for Nutrient, nutritional support. Food is usually of plant, animal, or Fungus, fungal origin and contains essential nutrients such as carbohydrates, fats, protein (nutrient), proteins, vitamins, ...
for
ingestion, commonly with the application of differentiated heating. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the world, reflecting unique environments, economics, cultural traditions, and trends. The way that cooking takes place also depends on the skill and type of training of an individual cook as well as the resources available to cook with, such as
good butter which heavily impacts the meal.
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File:Fromagerie gruyères-égouttage-4.jpg, The production of Gruyère cheese at the cheesemaking
Cheesemaking (or caseiculture) is the craft of making cheese. The production of cheese, like many other food preservation processes, allows the nutritional and economic value of a food material, in this case milk, to be preserved in concentrate ...
factory of Gruyères, Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland
File:Svadbarski Kupus.jpg, Cooking of Svadbarski Kupus (wedding cabbage) in clay pots, Serbia
File:Coddled Egg on hash.jpg, A coddled egg
In cooking, coddled eggs are egg (food), eggs that have been cracked into a ramekin or another small container, placed in a water bath or bain-marie and gently or lightly cooked just below boiling temperature. They can be partially cooked, mostl ...
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File:Creaming butter - step 3.JPG, Butter being creamed using electric beaters
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Lists of food and beverage topics
Lists of food and beverage topics cover topics related to food and drinks from different points of view.
They include lists of foods, beverages, Outline of food preparation, food preparation tools and equipment, food preparation techniques, cuisin ...
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Culinary arts
Culinary arts are the cuisine arts of food preparation, cooking, and presentation of food, usually in the form of meals. People working in this field – especially in establishments such as restaurants – are commonly called chefs or ...
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Food preparation
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Food science
Food science (or bromatology) is the basic science and applied science of food; its scope starts at overlap with agricultural science and nutritional science and leads through the scientific aspects of food safety and food processing, informing ...
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Molecular gastronomy
Molecular gastronomy is the Science, scientific approach of cuisine from primarily the perspective of chemistry. The composition (Structural formula, molecular structure), properties (mass, viscosity, etc) and transformations (chemical reaction ...
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Molecular mixology
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Note by Note cuisine
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Food processing
Food processing is the transformation of agricultural products into food, or of one form of food into other forms. Food processing takes many forms, from grinding grain into raw flour, home cooking, and complex industrial methods used in the mak ...
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Meal preparation
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Outline of food preparation
References
Further reading
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External links
Culinary Arts Basics: The Fundamentals of Cooking. About.com.
Cooking Instruction
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