Cooking

Cooking is the process of preparing food using heat to make it fit for eating by boiling, baking, roasting, etc. Though, there are other ways of cooking besides changing temperature as they do not use heat to prepare food.

What is cooking?

Cooking is the process of preparing food using heat to make it fit for eating by boiling, baking, roasting, etc. However, it is not an exhaustive definition of cooking, as there are other ways of cooking besides changing temperature as they do not use heat to prepare food.

 

During cooking, when heat is applied to cook the food, the temperature rises. The food is deemed cooked when it reaches a critical temperature, and below that, it remains uncooked. So, heating above or below a critical temperature makes the food cooked or uncooked. One example is the egg, perhaps the most simple food to cook.

 

When an egg is cooked using heat, it changes conformation, which occurs due to heat applied, and changes the liquid in the eggshell to solid, whether in scrambled eggs, hard-boiled eggs, or others. So an egg goes from being uncooked to cooked at a critical temperature and may also be cooked in multiple ways at varying temperatures.

 

As for eggs, they undergo several transformations when heated from 60 to 70 or 80 degrees Celsius. Different proteins in the egg unfold at varying degrees of temperature, altering the egg's texture. While just cooking a simple food like an egg, various transitions describe the changes in the egg's structure. One needs to be aware of the temperature to manage these different transitions and control the texture of an egg for taste.