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Pre made ingredients still cooking? (lemmy.world)
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Not a snob on cooking and food wise, I found this to be a good question when debating my friend over beans on toast (UK here).

He says it doesn't really count as cooking cos you're just buying already produced ingredients to whack in a microwave or pot and that proper cooking is done from scratch.

I argue this is bullshit as you're still USING common cooking equipment to make as something as simple as beans on toast because you still have to watch it not burn or dry out.

What are your thoughts on what counts as proper cooking? Would you say canned soup counts? Or frozen pizza since you're still needing to use an oven and watch the food accordingly?

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[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If all you have to do is heat something up, you are not cooking.

It counts as cooking when you start needing to prepare and combine ingredients.

Canned soup is not cooking.

Making a grilled cheese sandwich to go along with your canned soup would be cooking though, because it requires preparing bread, cheese, and butter (usually) and then combining then cooking the ingredients in a particular way.

[–] iii@mander.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is sous vide cooking?

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Yes because you're applying enough heat to change the chemical composition of the food.

Reheating, nah.