Cooking is a human universal. No society is without it. o one other than a few faddists tries to survive on raw food alone. Whatever your personal argument against cooking your own food may be, I'm here to convince you that you can cook in your dorm room and create awesome food cheaply.

Everyone appreciate the down-to-earth cooking – no fanfare, "honest ingredients" and good old-fashioned recipes that the grandmas store in their heads. They can cook whatever they want, depending on what was bought fresh that day. In a restaurant setting, you have ticket times, hungry church crowds and last-minute folks in a hurry to catch movie show times – in short, people who want great food quickly, period. Which is fine, but at home let’s take a little more time.

Start cooking, however, and things change radically. Cooking alters food in three important ways. It breaks starch molecules into more digestible fragments.Every time you open that oven door you drop the temperature and extend cooking time.

Cooking is a human universal. No society is without it. o one other than a few faddists tries to survive on raw food alone.Methods of cooking that minimize the area , must be heated save energy. On the other hand, sometimes the most efficient cooking methods will sacrifice food quality.

Fats and oils come from both animal and plant sources. In cooking, fats provide tastes and textures. When used as the principal cooking medium (rather than water), they also allow the cook access to a wide range of cooking temperatures. Cooking is about love – love of food, love of the company we share it with.Cooking to me is like putting my personality on a plate.

Importance Of Cooking
Cooking is all about control – specifically controlling ingredients and manipulating them to embellish their natural flavors. The best outlet to maintain control is to regulate heat.A good example is scrambled eggs. How many of us get a pan smoking hot, add whipped eggs to it, and stir crazily.
Turn that heat on your range to medium-low, add a pat of butter to your frying pan and walk away. Go to the fridge and grab your eggs, scramble them, add salt and pepper. check your pan. You want the butter gently melted with maybe a light foam accumulating. Then slip your eggs into the pan and stir gently for about six minutes until the eggs are as moist or as dry as you prefer.

Slow cooking also can work for potato salad.Quarter about 10 small red potatoes, drop them into cold water, and place them on the stove on medium heat.Combine mayonnaise, mustard, celery salt, your hot sauce of choice , and fresh ground pepper. Put this mixture into the fridge.Then wait a little less than 20 minutes after boiling begins.

Simple and healthy cooking can be done with little planning and patience.