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What distinguishes moist heat cooking methods from dry heat cooking methods?
What distinguishes moist heat cooking methods from dry heat cooking methods?
Moist heat methods use liquids to cook foods, while dry heat methods utilize air.
Identify one example of a cooking method that employs both moist and dry heat and explain its significance.
Identify one example of a cooking method that employs both moist and dry heat and explain its significance.
Grazing is a combination method that uses both moist and dry heat, which allows for more complex flavors and textures.
Explain why heat can be considered a form of energy in cooking.
Explain why heat can be considered a form of energy in cooking.
Heat is a form of energy that causes food molecules to move faster, leading to cooking through temperature increases.
What is the role of boiling in the moist heat method of cooking?
What is the role of boiling in the moist heat method of cooking?
Describe how frying as a dry heat method alters the texture of food.
Describe how frying as a dry heat method alters the texture of food.
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Cooking Methods
- Cooking is the art, skill, and science of applying heat to food.
- Heat is a form of energy.
- Cooking is classified into three types: Moist Heat, Dry Heat, or Combination.
- Moist heat methods utilize liquids to cook food, examples include: boiling, steaming, poaching, simmering, pressure cooking and stewing.
- Dry heat methods utilize air to cook food, examples include: baking, frying, microwave cooking, roasting, and grilling.
- Combination methods combine the use of both moist and dry heat.
- An example of a combination method is braising.
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