Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?"
Personally, I don't* but I was curious what others think.
^*^some sandwiches excluded like a Cubano or chicken parm; those do require cooking.
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Personally, I don't* but I was curious what others think.
^*^some sandwiches excluded like a Cubano or chicken parm; those do require cooking.
Some go as far as saying cooking requires a chemical change, else youre just heating
Yeah - an application of heat to create a chemical change. You’re correct there. My answer was incomplete.
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 made a hard boiled egg), 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.