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Cooking

Cooking, also known as cookery, is the art, science and craft of using heat to make food more palatable, digestible, nutritious, or safe. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely, from grilling food over an open fire, to using electric stoves, to baking in various types of ovens, to boiling and blanching in water, reflecting local conditions…

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History

Ingredients

Methods

Health and safety

Scientific aspects

Home-cooking and commercial cooking

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Cooking

Nodes283
Edges282
Triples161
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007067
Components1

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Cooking

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related to history · 18
Cooking → Anthropologists, Archaeological, BCE, Catching Fire, Europe, Homo, How Cooking Made Us, However, Human, In, Middle East, Phylogenetic, Re-analysis, Recently, Richard Wrangham, South Africa, The, Wonderwerk Cave
related to Scientific aspects · 16
Cooking → Christian Conticini, Ferran Adria, Harold McGee, Hervé This, Heston Blumenthal, Important, It, Nicholas Kurti, Peter Barham, Philippe, Pierre Gagnaire, Raymond Blanc, Robert Wolke, Shirley Corriher, The, This
related to Carcinogens and AGEs · 14
Cooking → Also, Ascorbate, HCA's, HCAs, In, National Cancer Institute, Nitrosamines, Researchers, Richard Doll, Richard Peto, Several, Some, Studies, While
related to Food safety · 13
Cooking → Bacillus, Bacteria, Campylobacter, Clostridium, Entamoeba, Escherichia, Food, Salmonella, Some, The, This, Toxoplasma, When
related to External links · 11
Cooking → Cambridge University Press, Camp, Chisholm, Cookery, Directions, Encyclopædia Britannica, Florence Nightingale, Hospital, Hugh, Troops, Vol
related to Home-cooking and commercial cooking · 8
Cooking → Bakeries, Cohort, Home, Home-cooked, Home-cooking, In, The, This
has effect · 6
Cooking → Although, However, Peeling, Proponents, Sulforaphane, They
related to Fats · 6
Cooking → Dietary, Fats, The, They, To, Types
related to Ingredients · 6
Cooking → Cooks, Most, Mushrooms, Naturally, They, Vegetables
related to Vitamins and minerals · 6
Cooking → B6, Blanching, Many, The, Vitamin, Vitamins

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food water also may heat ingredients fats cooks many foods proteins fire cooked meat used boiling vitamins minerals use cancer

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Cookingis aaspect of all human societies and a cultural universal.Types of cooking also depend on the skill levels and training of the cooks0.90text
saltinstance ofCooks also use water and minerals0.80text
cereal flourinstance ofand starches from sources0.80text
riceinstance ofand starches from sources0.80text
arrowrootinstance ofand starches from sources0.80text
potato.The interaction of heatinstance ofand starches from sources0.80text
carbohydrate is complexinstance ofand starches from sources0.80text
starch tend to break down into more digestible simpler sugarsinstance ofLong-chain sugars0.80text
butterinstance ofanimal products0.80text
lardinstance ofanimal products0.80text
as well as fats from grainsinstance ofanimal products0.80text
including maizeinstance ofanimal products0.80text

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