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[edit] Fireless cooker

Is there an article on the Fireless cooker, under a different name? I couldn't find one... it's basically an insulated basket or box for keeping food at a high temperature to finish cooking, while using less fuel (and creating less pollution) than usual cooking methods. If an article is to be created here, I think it should be placed in Category:Cooking appliances, Category:Appropriate technology and Category:Sustainable technologies. --Singkong2005 talk 02:09, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

This looks like a variation on haybox cooking, which is a form of retained-heat cooking, combined with a form of Slow cooker. --Coconino 10:14, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikicook book

Do any of you think there should be a Wikicook book? I think there should. Come and tell me what you think! Asteroidz R not planetz 19:36, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

I would just like to ask if there's anyone else that thinks having a Wikicook book is a good idea. I think it is. Tell me what you think! Asteroidz R not planetz 19:37, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi, first of all, new comments/questions should be added to the end of Talk pages, or the end of any sections on that particular issue. Secondly, there is already a Wiki Cookbook in Wikibooks Cookbook. --Macrakis 22:49, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] food safety

the food safety section is getting too big, particularly since there is also a whole page devoted to the topic. I propose cutting it back to just the part about heating food, which would be appropriate in context (under the 'effects of cooking' heading). FiveRings 17:35, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Definition

"The term cooking encompasses all methods of food preparation including non-heated methods."

Says who? --MQDuck 22:10, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

I've removed this. Chris Cunningham 10:44, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rapeseed and Canola

Canola is just a fancy marketing term for rapeseed oil. That isn't made very clear in the reference in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.95.129.238 (talk) 16:13, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

  • Actually, canola is a specific cultivar of rapeseed, cultivated for it's lower erucic acid content. It's a subtle distinction, but not one without a difference, so the term gets a pass. -Munkel (talk) 19:55, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] History of Cooking

I feel that the history of cooking deserves its own section, in terms of why humans began cooking at all, and the cultural and physical changes that occurred as a result. In other words, at what point (besides after the discovery of fire) did the human race feel the need to heat their foods? JezSmitty (talk) 11:51, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Food safety

(since nobody responded to my previous comment about this). There are already pages on Food safety and Food and cooking hygiene that actually have less information than the Food Safety section on this page. I propose moving this page's information to the main Food safety page, and also merging the hygiene page into it. Comments? FiveRings (talk) 02:29, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

It's been forever since you said this, so you probly did it already, but if not, then yes, I think your idea is good. Carl.bunderson (talk) 00:00, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
yeah, I mostly did it. Still needs work though. FiveRings (talk) 21:32, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
The image that shows a lady using a chopping board seems an inadequate illustration for a food safety section, unless you want to show a bad example; she works with food with no hairnet, and even worse, wearing a few rings.--200.238.100.15 (talk) 18:52, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] recipes

There should be a wiki coookbook that would be a great idea. Everyone could edit their favourite recipes. I like bread making for example. Wikicookbook would be the ultimate in recipes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Catherinefionarichardson (talk • contribs) 12:32, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Try http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook for thousands of recipes. Velela (talk) 13:24, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Split into food heating and food preparation

I think this article should be made a disambiguation page to the following articles:

  • food heating
  • food preparation (generally)

Some sources define cooking as both [1], some as food preparation [2] and some as food heating only [3]

As it is not the article is a confusing mix of them both. The "Fat"-section for instance doesn't mention the heating effect on fats, but only deals with general preparation. Mikael Häggström (talk) 13:11, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

This is a more complex problem, since some languages and dialects consider "cooking" to be any kind of food preparation (the Germans cook coffee, for example), and others consider it only to be food preparation that involves heat (see Levi Strauss' culinary triangle).
I would propose creating a new page called "food preparation" that encompasses all preparation forms (with many, many, links to other pages), and leaving this one to the heat methods. FiveRings (talk) 16:09, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Sounds like a good idea. This article may then be tagged with:
This page is about food heating. For general food preparation, see Food preparation.

Mikael Häggström (talk) 17:41, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes. We should probably let this marinate for a while (I usually wait a week) to elicit other ideas. And then start spinning info off of the cooking page. FiveRings (talk) 19:56, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
ok, undid the redirect from food preparation to cooking, and put in an under-construction tag FiveRings (talk) 20:24, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm readding in the previous reference re Advanced Glycation Endproducts as it was mysteriosuly deleted, without any justification.Loki0115 (talk) 13:55, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Food Safety

Nevermind no hairnet, the section is not about health, its about safety, just by the way she is holding the knife, sitting down instead of standing up and a series of factors that are just completely wrong with the example are just inadecuate. I'm a Chef by profesion and know at leats how not to chop my fingers of. I'll try to find a more adecuate example. .lrodilg (talk) 22:19, 9 December 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Protien

I'm deleting the part about broccoli having more protien that groung beef because it is incorrect. I did various comparisons using the Calorie King website and, whether you compare by wieght, proportion of calorie content, etc., broccoli has nowhere near the protien content of ground beef. I know this wasn't exactly s scientific comparison, but it wasn't even close. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.185.88.245 (talk) 20:23, 15 December 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Effect of cooking

I removed a reference to cooking improving the digestibility of meats as that is controversial, while the reference to cooking improving the digestion of a few foods such as grains is factual, and undisputed, so I included the latter statement. I can cite another scientific study, as an example, to show that cooking actually reduces the digestibility of meats:-

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1897402

Loki0115 (talk) 12:08, 4 January 2009 (UTC)


[edit] Vitamins and Minerals

I have remove the paragraph "Vitamins from fresh vegetables and fruit may be destroyed or eluted by cooking and the greatest benefit is derived from uncooked material. Vitamin C is especially prone to oxidation during cooking and may be completely destroyed by protracted coking. Minerals may also be eluted by extended boiling." As stating that uncooked food better needs a citation given the content preceding it and the destruction of micronutriants is already mentioned and I see no reason why vitamin C needs any special treatment in this section. 203.213.75.70 (talk) 07:08, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Probable copy-vio

the content of the cooking methods section seems ot be lifted from this source:

http://www.diet-and-health.net/articles.php?cont=cooking%20methods

Judging from the tone of the content (its concentration on minimizing fat addition) i would say it was copied from there (a diet site) instead of the reverse. It should be deleted. Vinithehat (talk) 06:09, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

It was introduced in this diff. It is clearly the same text. It was introduced by a very infrequent contributor who probably saw the tag requesting expansion and didn't realise that he was doing anything wrong. I am going to rip the text out but keep the links to various individual methods. --DanielRigal (talk) 13:15, 14 November 2009 (UTC)


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