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.

The following list of topics is provided as an overview of and introduction to cooking:

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Cuisine
Regional cuisines
Styles
Food

Bread · Pasta · Cheese · Rice · Sauce · Soup · Dessert · Herbs / Spices · other ingredients
Techniques, utensils
and measures
See also

Contents

[edit] Essence of cooking

Main article: Cooking

Chef - Cuisine

[edit] History of cooking

History of Chinese cuisine

[edit] Styles of cooking

Sample famous cuisines around the world:

Cajun cuisine - Chinese cuisine - Cuisine of the Mediterranean - English cuisine - French cuisine - Italian cuisine - Japanese cuisine - Vietnamese cuisine
See the entire list of cuisines

[edit] Basic ingredients

Decorated bread loaves.
Decorated bread loaves.
Eggplants, also called Aubergines.
Eggplants, also called Aubergines.
Maize - Rice - Wheat (Bread, Noodles)
  • Cooking fats and oils
Butter - Canola oil - Coconut oil - Corn oil - Flaxseed oil - Lard - Margarine - Olive oil - Palm oil - Peanut oil - Rapeseed oil - Sesame oil - Soybean oil - Sunflower oil - Tallow
Buttermilk - Cheese - Cream - Milk - Yogurt
Apples - Cherries - Pears
Beans - Lentils - Soy (Miso, Soy cheese, Soy milk, Soy sauce, Soy yogurt, Textured soy protein, Tofu)
Beef - Fish - Mutton - Poultry - Pork
Champignon
Herbs (Parsley) - Spices (Pepper, Salt) - Sweeteners (Agave syrup, Fructose, Glucose, Honey, Stevia, Sugar)
Cucumber - Eggplants - Garlic - Onions - Potatoes - Squash - Tomatoes

[edit] Cooking techniques

Some major hot cooking techniques:

Baking Blind - Broiling - FlashBake
Blanching - Braising - Coddling - Double steaming - Infusion - Poaching - Pressure cooking - Simmering - Steaming - Steeping - Stewing - Vacuum flask cooking
Deep frying - Hot salt frying - Hot sand frying - Pan frying - Pressure frying - Sautéing - Stir frying
Barbecuing - Grilling - Rotisserie - Searing

[edit] Other preparation techniques

Some cool techniques

Brining - Drying - Grinding ([e.g. sesame seeds to produce tahini ] chopping, slicing finely, grating, etc.) - Julienning - Marinating - Mincing - Pickling - Salting - Seasoning - Sprouting - Sugaring

[edit] Basic cooking concepts

Cookbook - Cooking oil - Cooking weights and measures (includes conversions and equivalences common in cooking) - Cooker or stove - 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

[edit] Famous chefs

Julia Child - Auguste Escoffier - Alton Brown - Jamie Oliver - Wolfgang Puck - Gordon Ramsey

[edit] Cooking lists

Cocktails - Cookbooks - Cooking utensils

[edit] See also

Wikibooks
Wikibooks has a book on the topic of
Food writing - Nutrition - Culinary profession

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