Types Of Cooking

Cooking is the process by which heat is used to prepare food. By applying heat you are ridding the food of any potentially harmful impurities present thus making it fit for human consumption. When heat is applied to foods it can alter the appearance, taste, texture, consistency, and nutritional properties.

Foods must be prepared before they are cooked. Common methods of preparations are marinating, seasoning, salting and grinding. Depending on how well the food is prepared, it can alter the taste when cooking is complete.

Many other variables can contribute to the final taste of a meal. These include ingredients, tools and methods used to prepare the food. The skill of the person cooking the food can also impact the final outcome.

There are many different methods of food preparation and they all give the meal a different taste. Dry, oil based, water based, or chemical cooking and microwaving are types of ways a meal can be cooked.

Dry based cooking involves common ways to cook both indoors and outdoors such as baking, rotisserie, broiling and toasting. Other popular dry based cooking done outdoors are barbecuing, grilling and roasting.

Water based cooking, or boiling is more restricted to the indoors as it involve hot water. Water based cooking methods include pressure cooking, steaming, simmering and stewing.

All oil based cooking is called frying. Different ways of frying are deep frying, sautéing, stir frying and pressure frying.

Chemical ‘cooking’ refers to the preservation of food products. There are different ways to preserve food, such as pickling, fermentation and smoking.