THE BASIC
COOKING METHODS
The commonly used basic cooking methods are divided into two general groups:
1.Dry heat cookery methods
2.Moist heat cookery methods
In dry heat cooking methods, the food being cooked does not use water to cook the food.
The food is left dry and heat is applied to cook the food.
When heat is applied to the food, the food cooks
in its own juice or the water added to the food during its preparation evaporates during the
heating process and this cooks the food.
The dry heat cooking methods are:
Baking
Steaming
Grilling
Broiling
In moist heat cookery methods, liquid is used as a medium to cook the food.
Such medium could be water, coconut cream or oil etc…
The moist heat cookery methods are:
Boiling
Stewing
Frying: shallow frying & deep
frying
Barbequing
The food is usually marinated with spices and tenderizers before it is cooked.
Basting
“Cultivation to the mind is as
necessary as food to the body”
Marcus Tullius Cicero