Adjective

cooking (not comparable)

Positive cooking

Comparative not comparable

Superlative none (absolute)

  1. (informal) In progress, happening.
    The project took a few days to gain momentum, but by the end of the week, things were really cooking.

Noun

Singular cooking

Plural uncountable

cooking (uncountable)

  1. The process of preparing food by using heat
  2. The style or genre of food preparation; cookery

From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Tue Sep 15 15:45:04 2009

Cooking is the process of preparing food by applying heat, selecting, measuring and combining of ingredients in an ordered procedure for producing safe and edible food. The process encompasses a vast range of methods, tools and combinations of ingredients to alter the flavor, appearance, texture, or digestibility of food. Factors affecting the final outcome include the variability of ingredients, ambient conditions, tools, and the skill of the individual doing the actual cooking.

The diversity of cooking worldwide is a reflection of the aesthetic, agricultural, economic, cultural, social and religious diversity throughout the nations, races, creeds and tribes across the globe.

Applying heat to food usually, though not always, chemically transforms it, thus changing its flavor, texture, consistency, appearance, and nutritional properties. Methods of cooking that involve the boiling of liquid in a receptacle have been practised at least since the 10th millennium BC, with the introduction of pottery.

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Sun Oct 4 20:05:46 2009

What is the cooking social where you cook meals for a month?
Q. I had read about a cooking 'class' where you can meet with other people, you all cook lots of food in one evening (enough to last a month or a week) and you take home your food and freeze it and then use it for the next month or so. What is the name of this? Has anyone actually done this?
Asked by Yvelise - Sat Jun 7 18:08:07 2008 - - 2 Answers - 1 Comments

A. It's called "Once a Month Cooking" or "OAMC". I couldn't find any classes where you actually meet with other folks in person, but I found a website with a lot of information that may steer you in the right direction. Here's a blurb from the site (I'll provide the link below). Hope this helps!!!: *What is OAMC or Once A Month Cooking? It is a method of producing several entrees or meals in a one or two day-long cooking session. Meals and entrees are prepared for the next 30 days, then frozen. This makes cooking and clean-up minimal for the remainder of the month, giving you more time with your family, and to pursue personal interests.
Answered by carla - Sun Jun 8 18:42:43 2008

Where can I find some cooking friends?
Q. I want friends to exchange recipes. Do u know any groups or clubs on the net for cooking and exchanging recipes? Does anyone wants to be my cooking friend? I love cooking and bakibng and Im ready to talk and exchange recipes with u.
Asked by IdoCare - Sun Sep 30 03:00:50 2007 - - 5 Answers - 1 Comments

A. I too would like to share recipes. I love to cook and learn new things. I would love to share recipes with you. Is there a place that we can start a forum where we can converse and share these? The only open forum I know of is topix.net. In my area, it's used so much for gossip, but you can post anonymously. We could use whatever zip code everyone wants and share recipes there. Please let me know. You can email me at wllw22@yahoo.com. Thanks!
Answered by Amy - Sun Oct 7 03:30:01 2007

What do German cooks stuff their geese with while cooking for the holidays?
Q. I am cooking a goose on the 26th, and know I have to use apples, but what else?
Asked by Learning is fun! - Tue Dec 23 07:44:29 2008 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Traditionally we in Hamburg, stuff the goose with apples, a special one "Belle de Boskoop". It is sweet sour. and raisins. Don t forget a spoonful of mugwort. It is good for the digestion of the fat. Greetings from Hamburg, Germany Heinz
Answered by pinata - Tue Dec 23 12:12:07 2008

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