This is a list of cooking techniques commonly used in
cooking
Cooking, cookery, or culinary arts is the art, science and craft of using heat to prepare food for consumption. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely, from grilling food over an open fire to using electric stoves, to baking in vari ...
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food preparation.
Cooking
Cooking, cookery, or culinary arts is the art, science and craft of using heat to prepare food for consumption. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely, from grilling food over an open fire to using electric stoves, to baking in vari ...
is the art of preparing
food
Food is any substance consumed by an organism for nutritional support. Food is usually of plant, animal, or fungal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is ...
for
ingestion
Ingestion is the consumption of a substance by an organism. In animals, it normally is accomplished by taking in a substance through the mouth into the gastrointestinal tract, such as through eating or drinking. In single-celled organisms ingest ...
, commonly with the application of heat. 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.
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File:Fromagerie gruyères-égouttage-4.jpg, The production of Gruyère cheese
Gruyère (, , ; german: Greyerzer) is a hard Swiss cheese that originated in the cantons of Fribourg, Vaud, Neuchâtel, Jura, and Berne in Switzerland. It is named after the town of Gruyères in Fribourg. In 2001, Gruyère gained the ''appe ...
at the cheesemaking factory of Gruyères, Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland
File:Svadbarski Kupus.jpg, Cooking of Svadbarski Kupus (wedding cabbage) in clay pots
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4).
Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay parti ...
, Serbia
File:Coddled Egg on hash.jpg, A coddled egg atop hash
File:Creaming butter - step 3.JPG, Butter being creamed
Creaming may refer to:
* Creaming (chemistry), a process of separation of an emulsion
* Creaming (food), several different culinary processes
See also
*Cream (disambiguation)
Cream is a dairy product.
Cream may also refer to:
Art, entertai ...
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, food preparation tools and equipment, food preparation techniques, cuisines and industrial food pre ...
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Food science
Food science 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 the developme ...
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Molecular gastronomy
Molecular gastronomy is the scientific approach of nutrition from primarily the perspective of chemistry. The composition ( molecular structure), properties (mass, viscosity, etc) and transformations (chemical reactions, reactant products) o ...
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Molecular mixology
Molecular mixology is the process of creating cocktails using the equipment and techniques of molecular gastronomy.
These methods enable the creation of greater intensities and varieties of flavour, flavour combinations and different ways of pres ...
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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 includes many forms of processing foods, from grinding grain to make raw flour to home cooking to complex industr ...
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Meal preparation
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References
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External links
Culinary Arts Basics: The Fundamentals of Cooking About.com.
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