Proper Cooking Method

After choosing good and right food ingredients, of course, we must know the right cooking method.

Because if we use improper cooking methods, it will reduce the benefits of the food ingredients we use, as well as the taste that we will produce from a dish.

Well, the cooking method itself is of course different, the results are different, and also the taste produced is different.

Well, I will invite you to get to know various cooking methods.

The first is the dry heat cooking method.

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This method is a cooking technique, which uses hot fat, hot air, then hot metal and heat radiation.

So, what is included in the dry heat cooking method?

Cooking techniques using the help of liquid fat for the ripening process. The liquid fat in question is fried fat, which is heated to a temperature of 160°-180°C.

The goal is to make the food crunchy and savory, and golden in color.

roast. This cooking technique does not use oil, but uses hot metal.

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The roasted ingredients are stirred continuously until cooked and fragrant. Usually the food ingredients that are processed in this way are coffee and peanuts.

The food produced with this technique is tastier and free of oil.

Stir fry.

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This cooking technique is often used to process vegetables and protein, both animal and vegetable. This technique uses the help of a little oil to ripen it, so the resulting dish is quite crispy.

Burn.

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When I talked about cooking techniques with the help of hot air, the goal is that the food can be cooked perfectly. The tools used are ovens or grills that use charcoal fuel.

Fumigation.

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This cooking technique is usually used to process fish, meat, or make banana sales. This cooking technique uses smoke and hot steam, which is produced from the combustion process underneath. Processed products using this technique are smoked milkfish, sausage, banana sale, and smoked meat.

The second is the wet hot cooking method. This method is a cooking technique with the help of liquids for the process of cooking the food itself.

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Well, this process is commonly known as Most Heat Cooking.

One of the first examples is steaming.

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Well, steaming itself is a cooking technique using the help of boiling water vapor in the food ripening process. And usually use a tool called a timer or cormorant. You can also use an ordinary pot filled with water, and above it is placed a tool such as a porous tool, such as a filter made of wire, aluminum, or bamboo.

The menu that is usually cooked with this technique is rice, dumplings, dumplings, steamed sponge, fish and others.

Boiled. This cooking technique also uses water as a medium for ripening. The ingredients to be processed are put into boiling water and leave for a while until cooked, then removed. Usually the temperature used is 100°C.

Well, then there is also a stew technique, or stew. Usually this is done for foodstuffs such as meat, then there is chicken, tofu, using a little water.

Why use water?

Because this water helps to soften the food ingredients to be used, so that the spices are more pervasive and the taste is more delicious.

Hmmm.... Which is better, the cooking technique is boiled, or steamed, or the cooking technique is burned. Or which one is better, the technique is burned, or fried.

Well, questions like this often arise in society and become pros and cons.

Some say that the wet hot cooking technique is better than the dry hot cooking technique.

There is also a more specific, he said, this cooking technique boiled is better than fried.

But actually which one is correct, boiled, fried, steamed, or burned?

Of the several cooking methods, whether it's boiled, baked, or fried, the best is steaming. Because by steaming it can maintain the nutritional value of the food.

What is not good is when it is fried and burned. In foods that are burned excessively to charred, it can contain carcinogenic substances, which if consumed can cause cancer.

In fried foods, the oil content that settles in the food increases the number of calories which if consumed in excess can cause obesity.

And the second thing that makes fried foods dangerous is, when using frying oil that has been used repeatedly, it can cause carcinogenic substances as well, thus triggering cancer in those who consume it.

Boiled food can reduce its nutritional value, because when boiled, the nutritional content of the food can only settle in the cooking water.

If you are a connoisseur of burnt food, it is a bit difficult to avoid this, yes. But there is something you need to pay attention to, don't consume it too often. Because consuming it very often and excessively, it will have an impact on your health, including by eating foods that are often burned.

In addition, you must apply the spices evenly. If you don't apply the seasoning evenly, if you have too much of it, it will burn and trigger carcinogens.

Choose healthy meat. Basically, the ingredients that we often consume, whether from poultry, red meat or types of fish, provide benefits to the body. It is recommended to use lean red meat, because it can reduce the danger of burnt food.

Bake the right way. You can use the right process, so that it does not harm the body. As with baking at a distance of 15 cm.

Do not get too close, because it will damage the protein in the meat.

You can also wrap it in aluminum oil, so it doesn't burn.

Cooking is a very pleasant habit for people who have this hobby.

Cooking doesn't need special skills, you just need passion, desire and willingness to do this. Because actually cooking can be learned alone or not. However, sometimes when we cook ourselves, we often make mistakes that we could have avoided if we cooked with an expert or a professional.

Well, we often do these wrong habits without realizing it, because actually we don't understand the theory in cooking.

So, what habits do we often do when cooking? I will discuss it in the next post.

Thanks for reading. May be useful.

Best regards always.

By @midiagam