Thursday, December 18, 2014

Methods of Cooking

2. Dry (Fat/Oil) heat Method: Dry heat method is a method of cooking in which food is cooked in oil or fat on heat source. There are different ways to cook food using dry heat method:

a. Roasting : Roasting is cooking by using radiated heat with the aid of oil/fat. It uses hot dry air to make surface of food brown and develops complex flavors and aromas. It is basically done in different vessels like oven, spit, pot and tandoor. Types of roasting are:

i. Oven Roasting: An oven is thermally insulated chamber used to heat, bake or dry food. The roasting done in this kind of vessel is called oven roasting. There are many kinds of ovens:
Earth Oven
Ceramic Oven (Tan-door)
Gas Oven
Microwave Oven etc.


ii. Spit Roasting: The way of roasting an animal such as pig over fire using a wooden or metal rod called spit through the animal and roll over fire or heat sources is spit roasting.


iii. Pot Roasting: Pot roasting is one of the combination of cooking methods which involves both dry and moist heat method. Roasting is done on bed of root vegetables and herbs in a pot.


iv. Tan-door Roasting: Roasting food in a cylindrical oven made of clay, heated in high heat over charcoal or wood is called Tan-door Roasting.


b. Grilling: Grilling is a form of cooking that involves dry heat applied to the surface of food . Grilling is done in an open wire grid called grill above heat source.


c. Frying: Frying is the cooking of food in oil or fat. There are two types of frying :

i. Deep frying: Deep frying is a cooking method in which food is submerged in hot oil or fat. Due to its high temperature food is cooked quickly.

ii. Shallow frying: Shallow frying is a cooking method in which food is immersed in  little amount hot fat/oil to make its surface brown in color and turned other side.


d. Baking: Baking is a cooking method that uses prolonged dry heat by thermal radiation normally in oven, hot ashes or hot stones.


e. Smoking: Smoking is the process of flavoring, preserving food by exposing to smoke from woods.


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