Hot sand frying — is a common cooking technique for street side food vendors in China and India to cook chestnuts and peanuts. A large wok is filled with black sand and heated to high temperature. Nuts are buried in the hot sand and occasionally turned with a… … Wikipedia
Frying — For other uses of fry or frying , see Fry. Frying is the cooking of food in oil or another fat, a technique that originated in ancient Egypt around 2500 BC.[1] Chemically, oils and fats are the same, differing only in melting point, but the… … Wikipedia
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Stir frying — (爆 bào) in the wok Stir frying is an umbrella term used to describe two Chinese cooking techniques for preparing food in a wok: chǎo (炒) and bào (爆). The term stir fry was introduced into the English language by B … Wikipedia
Cooking — This article is about the preparation of food by heating. For food preparation generally, see Food preparation. Modern fruit salad and a Russian cigarette pastry stuffed with cottage cheese Cooking is the process of preparing food by use of heat … Wikipedia
Smoking (cooking) — Pork ribs being smoked Smoked beef sandwich … Wikipedia
Curing (food preservation) — Sea salt being added to raw ham to make Prosciutto … Wikipedia
Barbecue — This article is about the cuisine. For the cooking appliance, see Barbecue grill. For other uses, see Barbecue (disambiguation). A barbecue at a street fair in New York City s East Village known as Ternera a la Llanera from the Colombian… … Wikipedia
Outline of food preparation — Food preparation at the Naval Air Station, Whidbey Island, Washington state … Wikipedia
Earth oven — A Samoan mumu at the early stage of heating the rocks An earth oven or cooking pit is one of the most simple and long used cooking structures (not to be confused with the masonry oven). At its simplest, an earth oven is simply a pit in the ground … Wikipedia