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.
Please see food writing for some authors of book on cookery, food, and the history of food.
Some major cooking techniques:
Other preparation techniques:
- /Brining
- /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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