Cooking Recipes & Cooking Tips

Cooking recipes for every occasion and serves up expert advice on how to prepare the perfect meal. Get food and cooking tips. A family cooking and food site with thousands of healthy, whole-food recipes for the home cook. Find a wide variety of delicious and easy free recipes, cooking tips, and more for every meal and occasion. A wide array of recipes, including sample recipes from cookbooks. Also contains daily menus, news, and cooking tips. Cooking can be a fun and interesting skill in Recipe-Free.com, since you can often cook several different types of food at the same level.

Cooking definition:
Cooking is the process of preparing food by use of heat. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the world, reflecting unique environmental, economic, and cultural traditions. Cooks themselves also vary widely in skill and training.

Preparing food with heat or fire is an activity unique to humans, and some scientists believe the advent of cooking played an important role in human evolution. Most anthropologists believe that cooking fires first developed around 250,000 years ago. The development of agriculture, commerce and transportation between civilizations in different regions offered cooks many new ingredients. New inventions and technologies, such as pottery for holding and boiling water, expanded cooking techniques. Some modern cooks apply advanced scientific techniques to food preparation.

Methods of cooking: There are very many methods of cooking, most of which have been known since antiquity. These include baking, roasting, frying, grilling, barbecuing, smoking, boiling, steaming and braising. A more recent innovation is microwaving. Various methods use differing levels of heat and moisture and vary in cooking time. The method chosen greatly affects the end result. Some foods are more appropriate to some methods than others. Some major hot cooking techniques include:

- Roasting: Roasting - Barbecuing - Grilling - Rotisserie - Searing
- Baking: Baking - Baking Blind - Broiling - Flashbaking
- Frying: Frying - Deep frying - Hot salt frying - Hot sand frying - Pan frying - Pressure frying - Sautéing - Stir frying
- Smoking: Food smoking
- Boiling: Boiling - Blanching - Braising - Coddling - Double steaming - Infusion - Poaching - Pressure cooking - - Simmering - Steaming - Steeping - Stewing - Vacuum flask cooking

Cookbook:
Cookbooks are an excellent and intriguing resource for anyone who wants to experiment with cooking, even if you don't consider yourself a geek.
- Initialize your kitchen and calibrate your tools
- Learn about the important reactions in cooking, such as protein denaturation, Maillard reactions, and caramelization, and how they impact the foods we cook
- Play with your food using hydrocolloids and sous vide cooking
- Gain firsthand insights from interviews with researchers, food scientists, knife experts, chefs and writers.