List of basic cooking topics

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Cooking is an act of preparing food for eating. It encompasses a vast range of methods, tools and combinations of ingredients to improve the flavour or digestibility of food. It generally requires the selection, measurement and combining of ingredients in an ordered procedure in an effort to achieve the desired result. Basic topics in cooking include:

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Contents 1 Nature of cooking 2 History of cooking 3 Styles of cooking 4 Basic ingredients 5 Cooking techniques 6 Other preparation techniques 7 Basic cooking concepts 8 Famous chefs 9 Cooking lists 10 See also

[edit] Nature of cooking

Main article: Cooking

• Chef
• Cuisine

[edit] History of cooking

Main article: History of Cooking

[edit] Styles of cooking

[edit] Basic ingredients

• Cooking fats and oils
  • Butter
  • Olive oil
  • Sunflower oil
  • Beef fat
    • Dripping
    • Tallow
  • Rapeseed oil
  • Canola oil
  • Peanut oil
• Meat
  • Beef
  • Fish
  • Mutton
  • Poultry
  • Pork

[edit] Cooking techniques

Some major hot cooking techniques:

1. Baking
   1. Baking Blind
   2. Broiling
   3. FlashBake

1. Boiling
   1. Blanching
   2. Braising
   3. Coddling
   4. Double steaming
   5. Infusion
   6. Poaching
   7. Pressure cooking
   8. Simmering
   9. Steaming
   10. Steeping
   11. Stewing
   12. Vacuum flask cooking

1. Frying
   1. Deep frying
   2. Hot salt frying
   3. Hot sand frying
   4. Pan frying
   5. Pressure frying
   6. Sautéing
   7. Stir frying

1. Microwaving

1. Roasting
   1. Barbecuing
   2. Grilling
   3. Rotisserie
   4. Searing

1. Smoking

[edit] Other preparation techniques

Some cool techniques

1. Brining
2. Drying
3. Grinding (e.g. sesame seeds to produce tahini), chopping, slicing finely, grating, etc..
4. Julienning
5. Marinating
6. Mincing
7. Pickling
8. Salting
9. Seasoning
10. Sprouting
11. Sugaring

[edit] Basic cooking concepts

• Cookbook
• Cooking oil
• Cooking weights and measures (includes conversions and equivalencies common in cooking)
• Cuisine
• Cutting board
• Eating
• Flavor
• Food
• Food and cooking hygiene
• Foodborne illness
• Food preservation
• Ingredients
• International food terms - useful when reading about food and recipes from different countries
• Maillard reaction
• Oven
• Recipe, List of recipes
• Restaurant
• Staple
• Stove

[edit] Famous chefs

[edit] Cooking lists

Main article: List of cooking topics

• Cocktails
• Cookbooks
• Cooking utensils

[edit] See also

• Food writing
• Nutrition
• Culinary profession

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