Cooking

Process of preparing food using heat.

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The process of preparing food by applying heat, typically through methods such as boiling, baking, frying, or roasting. Cooking enhances flavor, improves digestibility, and makes food safer to eat by killing harmful bacteria.

Cooking comes from Old English cocing, meaning 'to cook'.

Cooking is how we use heat to change food so it's yummy and safe to eat, like baking cookies or boiling pasta.

Cooking can change the nutritional value of food
Some cooking methods, like grilling, create compounds that may be harmful in large amounts
Ancient civilizations used cooking to preserve food

What is cooking? It's using heat to prepare food
Why do we cook? Cooking makes food safer and easier to digest
How long have people been cooking? Evidence suggests humans have been cooking for over 1 million years

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food preparation culinary activity

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