The Cooking Process: Part 1

Notice that two things are necessary in cooking to bring about change: heat and time. You will find that many specific cooking techniques have to do with the interplay of these two factors: the length of time and the degree of hotness, or the temperature.

When we talk about cooking temperature, we are usually talking about the temperature of the cooking medium like the fat in the fry kettle, the air in the oven, the water in the pot. The real purpose, of course, is to raise the temperature of the food itself to the point where the desired change will take place. This is what takes time. The lower the temperature of the cooking medium, the longer it takes to bring about change.

In the ever-changing world of ours, we find more and more new ways that save us time cooking. This is because we have less time to prepare food in our busy lives. Having a job in the food industry is one way to kill two birds with one stone. You can work all day and bring home a good meal for the family after work. If everyone could spend his or her lives cooking for money, I would bet most of us would do it.

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