List of cooking techniques

This is a list of cooking techniques commonly used in cooking and food preparation.

Cooking is the art of preparing food for ingestion, commonly with the application of differentiated heating.

Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the world, reflecting unique environments, economics, cultural traditions, and trends.

The way that cooking takes place also depends on the skill and type of training of an individual cook as well as the resources available to cook with, such as good butter which heavily impacts the meal.

Also called Chinese stewing, red stewing, red braising, and flavour potting.Also called slow oven cooking.Also called leaching.Also called spit-roasting.