I see cooking as a more general term. Both baking and grilling are forms of cooking. You can also roast and grill things in the oven. Cooking on a stove also has different specific terms, boiling, simmering, frying etc.
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KingJalopy@lemm.ee 6 days ago
The word cooking, to me, means using heat with a stove. Baking is for the oven. Grilling, is outside on a grill. But a sandwich is only ever “made” in my house. “Will you make me a sandwich?”, “I’m making a sandwich”
Good question though. Never thought about it.
nous@programming.dev 5 days ago
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
So would you cook a salad?
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
i think combining watery things and oily things counts as emulsion, which is a cooking sort of word. i thought “cooking” was a word for “changing the chemical properties of” or just “heating up because it’s better hot”
nous@programming.dev 5 days ago
I mean more general than heat with a stove. Not as is every form of meal preparation.
But yes. I would cook a salad - stir frys are basically just cooked salads with some rice or noodles. I would not consider tossing some raw ingredients together cooking though.
Wiz@midwest.social 4 days ago
Hot German potato salad is a thing.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
xkcd.com/149/
Sorry. You said “make me a sandwich”
Wiz@midwest.social 4 days ago
There’s always an xkcd for every forum thread topic.