cooking concept

Cooking is a process through which foods are combined, and spices, spices and different flavors are added to them in different ways, with the aim of making them ready for eating, and the concept of cooking in the modern era differed from ancient times. By mastering the preparation and presentation of different dishes, and competing to show them in the most beautiful forms and the richest ingredient

The importance of cooking

1. Changing the texture, flavor, and shape of eating, a person cannot enjoy eating raw meat, as it is known that cooking has the ability to convert these meat into edible food, and the method used in cooking directly affects the flavor of food, for example, the flavor of grilling is different The flavor of chard is different from frying.
2. Helping the body to digest food better after cooking, as the body may not be able to access all the nutrients it needs through raw food, as cooking helps the interaction of nutrients together, and thus the body benefits from them.
3. Destroying various food contaminants. Eating of all kinds is a suitable environment for germs, fungi, bacteria, and viruses. Through cooking, most of these contaminants are killed.

Basic cooking methods

• Grilling: through this method, food is cooked at high temperatures on coal, or ceramic stone, which leads to the browning of different foods and give them a special flavor and taste, and the most suitable types of food for grilling are foods that require a long time in their maturity, but preferably cut them into sizes as small as meat, for example; To ensure its maturity from the inside just like the outside, and the difficulty in this type of cooking is to reach the degree of food maturity required without browning, or burning foods too much, and the degree of maturity can be controlled by bringing the food closer, or keeping it away from the heat source.
• Roasting: So that different foods are cooked inside the oven by roasting foods with hot air that spreads around the food, and this method is suitable for different foods, especially foods that need a long time to mature in addition to large pieces of meat.
• Deep frying: where food is cooked in this way by placing it inside hot oil, where different foods mature as a result of the high temperature of the oil, and this method gives a special shape and flavor to foods, in addition to the crunch that you add to foods, and this method is suitable for cutting medium-sized food, so that They are almost equal in size when placed in the same pan, and they are excellent for eating that does not need a long time to ripen, and it is known that this method is very fast and practical, but specialists do not recommend a lot of it; Due to the large number of fats resulting from it, and thus the occurrence of health damage.