The two main cooking methods are dry heat and moist heat. Dry heat cooking does not use water and applies heat to cook the food as it evaporates moisture. Methods include baking, grilling, broiling and roasting. Moist heat cooking uses a liquid medium like water, oil or coconut cream to cook the food. Methods are boiling, stewing, frying and barbequing.

2. The commonly used basic
cooking methods are divided
into two general groups:
1.Dry heat cookery methods
2.Moist heat cookery methods

3. In dry heat cooking
methods, the food being
cooked does not use
water to cook the food.
The food is left dry and
heat is applied to cook
the food.

4. When heat is applied to the
food, the food cooks in its
own juice or the water
added to the food during its
preparation evaporates
during the heating process
and this cooks the food.

5. The dry heat cooking
methods are:

6. Baking

7. Steaming

8. Grilling

9. Broiling

10. Roasting

11. In moist heat cookery
methods, liquid is used
as a medium to cook the
food.
Such medium could be
water, coconut cream or
oil etc…

12. The moist heat
cookery methods
are:

13. Boiling

14. Stewing

15. Frying: shallow frying & deep frying

16. Barbequing
The food is usually marinated with spices and
tenderizers before it is cooked.

17. Basting

18. “Cultivation to the
mind is as necessary
as food to the body”
Marcus Tullius Cicero