Comment on Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?"
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Cooking (in the English I was taught) involves the application of heat - frying, baking, roasting, boiling etc are the names for specific ways to do this. A sandwich would be made or prepared.
tiddy@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Some go as far as saying cooking requires a chemical change, else youre just heating
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Yeah - an application of heat to create a chemical change. You’re correct there. My answer was incomplete.
morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Just for the heck of it, if you heat protein enough to denature it but have no Maillard reaction (let’s say you’ve just steamed an egg or something), would that not be considered cooking by that definition?
My understanding is that denaturing is a physical structure change, not a chemical one (and according to Wikipedia can be reversible in some cases), not a biochemist or food scientist though so totally accepting that my understanding is incorrect/incomplete.