Cooking is the
art,
science,
profession, and
hobby of preparing
food for human consumption. The term is often used in the narrower sense of applying heat to chemically transform a food to change its flavor, texture, appearance, or nutritional properties.
Because eating is a universal human drive, cooking is a nearly universal cultural feature.
Specific techniques and ingredients are often regional. See Cuisine for information about the many regional and ethnic food traditions.
Some major cooking techniques:
Other preparation techniques:
- /Marination
- /Seasoning?
- /Pickling
- "Nuking" by Microwave
- cook by intense infrared and visible light.
- Slow cooking by keeping heated food in a highly insulated vessel such as a large vacuum flask for several hours.
Other information:
For recipes, see the Wikipedia Cookbook.
What are our priorities for writing in this area? To help develop a list of the most basic topics in cooking, please see
cooking basic topics.
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