page_title: List of cooking techniques
section_title: T
hierarchical_section_title: List of cooking techniques / Cooking techniques / T
caption_attribution_description: English: Shown here is a Turkey fryer. The fryer is hooked up to a propane tank which provides the fuel for the tank. About 3 gallons of peanut oil or soybean oil is used to deep fry a turkey.
context_page_description: This is an incomplete list of cooking techniques.
  Cooking is the art of preparing food for ingestion, commonly with the application of heat. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the world, reflecting unique environments, economics, cultural traditions, and trends. The way that cooking takes place also depends on the skill and type of training of an individual cook.
context_section_description: Tandoor – a cylindrical clay or metal oven used in cooking and baking in Southern, Central and Western Asia, as well as in the Caucasus.
  Tataki
  Tempering - several meanings depending on the context:
  Tempering (chocolate), a method of increasing the shine and durability of chocolate couverture
  Tempering (cooking) — bringing meat to room temperature before cooking; or bringing food up to temperature slowly as in sous vide
  Tempering (spices) – a cooking technique and garnish used in the cuisines of India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, in which whole spices (and sometimes also other ingredients such as minced ginger root or sugar) are fried briefly in oil or ghee to liberate essential oils from cells and thus enhance their flavours, before being poured, together with the oil, into a dish.
  Tenderizing – a process to break down collagens in meat to make it more palatable for consumption
  Teriyaki
  Thermal cooking – uses the concept of the haybox whereby placing hay or straw around a cooking pot of heated food the meal continues to cook without fuel.
  Thermization – a method of sterilizing raw milk with heat
  Thickening
  Transglutaminase – a protein binder, called meat glue
  Truss - to tie the legs and wings of poultry in a way that promotes even cooking 
  Turbo cooking
  Turkey fryer
caption: A turkey fryer
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