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Klavier Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Cooking - baking

Hello.
Do I have to say:

She was cooking a cake. or
She was baking a cake.

Is there any difference?
  

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). If the definitions overlap, you could use either word - you could say either "cooking a chicken" or "baking a chicken" if you were doing it in dry heat in the oven. "

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You could either say "she was baking a cake" or "she was making a cake," but not "cooking a cake." I'm trying to figure out whether the important distinction between cooking and baking is the method (baking means in an oven; cooking can be frying, sauteeing, boiling, -- generally on top of the stove) or the product (usually you bake breads, cakes, cookies, but you cook meat, vegetables, pasta et
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Baking generally involve dry heating. If you put bread in a pan and just heat it on the stove, it is called baking. But if put some other stuff like water, oil and mix it before heating, it is called cooking. Making as suggested by khoff is a good word can be used in case of doubt. There is another term frying which is in between baking and cooking.

SG
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I'm not sure in what sense frying can be considered "in between" cooking and baking - I would say frying is a type of cooking, specifically, cooking in hot fat. At least that's how the term is used in the U.S. Donuts (or doughnuts) are a sweet puffy pastry that are fried, not baked.
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In my opinion frying is heating in oil or some other oily stuff and that's why I called it in between baking (just heating) and cooking (mixing and heating two or more ingredient to form a NEW product). Fried XXXX has different meaning than cooked XXXX.

SG
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you could say either "cooking a chicken" or "baking a chicken" if you were doing it in dry heat in the oven.

"baking a chicken" in an oven?? What's the difference between "baking a chicken" and "roasting a chicken" in an oven, please?
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"baking a chicken" in an oven?? What's the difference between "baking a chicken" and "roasting a chicken" in an oven, please?

That's a good question. One of my cookbooks states that "poultry may be roasted, broiled, fried, stewed, braised or poached," but the same cookbook has a recipe for "baked chicken *******>" (I hope our new "obj
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I'm not a chef but I believe that "roasting" requires the application of a little oil or fat, whereas "baking" does not. (My wife will probably kill me now!)
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Now, who knows the difference between "boiling" and "broiling"?
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Now, who knows the difference between "boiling" and "broiling"?

That's easy - the difference is the letter "r"!

Boiling involves cooking the food in boiling water. Broiling usually means cooking the food using a source of high heat above the food - like the top heating element in the oven. And I would agree with you that roasting usually involves basting or otherwise adding sm
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