The document discusses various cooking techniques from beginner to advanced levels. It explains that different techniques apply heat in different ways, such as boiling, steaming, baking, grilling, and roasting, which produce different textures and flavors in foods. While some techniques like baking involve dry heat in an oven, others like steaming use moist heat. Both beginner and advanced cooking techniques can be used to produce healthy and delicious meals for families to enjoy.

1. Various cooking techniques,
from beginner to advanced
are available to make
delicious dishes for the
family to enjoy. Each
technique is different.
Although the principle of
applying heat is quite
common to them, there are
different ways of applying
heat to produce various
results from appetizer to dessert.
Boiled water, for example may be used for blanching (usually as a preliminary
step to cooking hard vegetables) or boiling food for soup or tenderizing meats. It
may also be placed in a dish and separated from the food being cooked and the
moist heat cooks the food without the addition of salt. This process is known as
steaming.
Chocolate chip cookies, cakes, muffins, and pies coming
from the oven are happy memories a child may have,
having them as snacks after school, preparing the treats
for Santa Claus, or trying to smuggle a nibble from the
pie mom left out to cool. The technique called baking (i.
e. cooking food using dry heat from an oven) does not
merely apply to favorite desserts and breads. It also
applies to meals. Lasagna, another popular pasta dish is
done by baking. Seafood like mussels, oysters, fish, and
scallops may also be baked. This dry heat produces a
different result that moist heat (i. e. steaming) in the
texture of the food.
Other techniques involve open fire such as grilling or
roasting, where the food is heated using live coals or open fire,

2. such as roasting marshmallows on the campfire to make smores. The technique of
letting the food come in contact with open fire produces a different result,
sometimes not just a different texture or look but also a different flavor. Notice how
barbecued shrimp tastes differently (usually with that “smoky” flavor) than boiled
shrimp or steamed shrimp served for shrimp cocktail.
There are techniques from beginner to advanced level cooking, so to start cooking
your own meals, you don’t have to be a
culinary degree holder. There are easy
techniques to produce meals in 30
minutes or less, like stir-fried vegetables
or baking cream dory in a toaster oven,
a perfect dish for those pressed for time.
Several gourmet dishes may be even
modified for beginner-level cooking
skills. For those who have more time in
their hands. Advanced preparation
methods may be needed for making more
complicated dishes, sometimes a
combination of one or two (even more)
techniques are needed to make that dish.
Either way, whether beginner or
advanced, there are a lots to try to produce healthy and delicious meals to enjoy