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===Cooking===
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{{See also|List of food preparation utensils|Diet (nutrition)|Cuisine|Cookbook}}
Most modern-day houses contain sanitary facilities and a means of [[Cooking|preparing food]]. A [[kitchen]] is a room or part of a room used by the homemaker for [[cooking]], [[food preparation]] and [[food preservation]]. In the West, a modern kitchen is typically equipped with a [[stove]], an oven, a [[sink]] with hot and cold running water, a [[refrigerator]] and [[kitchen cabinet]]s. Many homemakers use a [[microwave oven]], a [[dishwasher]] and other electric appliances like [[blender]] and convection [[cooker]] and automatic appliances like [[rice cooker]]s. The main function of a kitchen is cooking or preparing food but it may also be used for [[dining]] for a casual meal such as [[lunch]].

[[Cooking]] is the process of preparing [[food]], making, selecting, measuring and combining ingredients in an ordered procedure for producing safe and edible food. The process encompasses a vast range of methods, tools and combinations of [[ingredient]]s to alter the [[Flavor (taste)|flavor]], appearance, texture, or [[digestion|digestibility]] of food. Factors affecting the outcome include the variability of ingredients, ambient conditions, [[tool]]s, and the skill of the individual doing the actual cooking.

The diversity of cooking worldwide is a reflection of the aesthetic, agricultural, economic, cultural, social and religious diversity of people across the globe. Applying heat to a food usually, though not always, [[chemistry|chemically]] transforms it, thus changing its flavor, texture, consistency, appearance, and nutritional properties. Methods of cooking that involve the boiling of [[liquid]] in a receptacle have been practised at least since the 10th millennium BC, with the introduction of [[pottery]].