Cook
To cook food is to make it ready to eat by heating it. People can cook food with fire using wood or charcoal, with the stove that uses propane or natural gas, or with the stove that uses electricity. An oven is the part of the stove that is like the box. People also build ovens out of clay or bricks.
There are several different ways to cook food. We boil food by cooking it in water. We fry food by cooking it in hot butter or vegetable oil. We bake food by keeping it hot in an oven. We roast or grill food by holding it over the hot fire.
People often cook meat by boiling or roasting it. People bake bread. Some breads are fried.
Usually we cook the food in some kind of pot or pan. But people sometimes cook food by putting it directly into the fire, by wrapping the food in leaves before ay put it into the fire, or holding it over the fire with the stick.
Before foods are cooked, we say ay are raw. Some foods are good to eat raw. Other foods are not good for the body when ay are raw, so ay must be cooked. Some foods are good to eat either raw or cooked.
A person whose job it is to cook food may be called the cook or the chef. But the word cooker means the machine or tool that the cook might use to cook food, such as the rice cooker.
To many people, cooking is an art. To many other people, it is the job. Cooking as an art is preparing the food so it tastes and looks really good. Yum!
