Editing Kitchen (section)

==By region==
===China===
[[File:20090518 Shanghai Shikumen Museum 6860.jpg|thumb|250px|A traditional 1920s [[Shanghai]]nese ''[[shikumen]]'' style kitchen, [[Shikumen Open House Museum]]]]
Kitchens in China are called {{lang|zh|chúfáng(厨房)}}. More than 3000 years ago, the ancient Chinese used the [[Ding (vessel)|ding]] for cooking food.  The ding was developed into the [[wok]] and pot used today. In Chinese spiritual tradition, a [[Kitchen God]] watches over the kitchen for the family and reports to the [[Jade Emperor]] annually about the family's behavior. On Chinese New Year's Eve, families would gather to pray for the kitchen god to give a good report to heaven and wish him to bring back good news on the fifth day of the New Year. 
  
The most common cooking equipment in Chinese family kitchens and restaurant kitchens are woks, steamer baskets and pots. The fuel or heating resource was also an important technique to practice the cooking skills. Traditionally  Chinese were using wood or straw as the fuel to cook food. A Chinese chef had to master flaming and heat radiation to reliably prepare traditional recipes. Chinese cooking will use a pot or wok for pan-frying, stir-frying, deep frying or boiling.

===Japan===
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[[File:Nagasaka-Dejima-1832.jpg|thumb|250px|Reconstruction of a 1832 Japanese kitchen in [[Dejima]], [[Nagasaki]], [[Japan]].]]

Kitchens in Japan are called '''Daidokoro''' (台所; lit. "kitchen"). Daidokoro is the place where food is prepared in a [[Housing in Japan|Japanese house]]. Until the [[Meiji era]], a kitchen was also called ''kamado'' (かまど; lit. [[stove]]) and there are many sayings in the [[Japanese language]] that involve kamado as it was considered the symbol of a house and the term could even be used to mean "family" or "household" (similar to the English word "hearth"). When separating a family, it was called ''Kamado wo wakeru'', which means "divide the stove". ''Kamado wo yaburu'' (lit. "break the stove") means that the family was bankrupt.

===India===
[[File:Gurudwara Bangla Sahib in New Delhi 03-2016 img1.jpg|thumb|250px|Preparation of bread in the kitchen of [[Gurudwara Bangla Sahib]] in [[New Delhi]], [[India]]]]

In India, a kitchen is called a "Rasoi" (in Hindi\Sanskrit)  or a "Swayampak ghar" in Marathi, and there exist many other names for it in the various regional languages. Many different methods of cooking exist across the country, and the structure and the materials used in constructing kitchens have varied depending on the region. For example, in the north and central India, cooking used to be carried out in clay ovens called "chulha" (also ''chullha'' or ''chullah''), fired by wood, coal or dried cow dung. In households where members observed vegetarianism, separate kitchens were maintained to cook and store vegetarian and non-vegetarian food. Religious families often treat the kitchen as a sacred space. Indian kitchens are built on an Indian architectural science called vastushastra. The Indian kitchen vastu is of utmost importance while designing kitchens in India. Modern-day architects also follow the norms of vastushastra while designing Indian kitchens across the world.

While many kitchens belonging to poor families continue to use clay stoves and the older forms of fuel, the urban middle and upper classes usually have gas stoves with cylinders or piped gas attached. Electric cooktops are rarer since they consume a great deal of electricity, but microwave ovens are gaining popularity in urban households and commercial enterprises. Indian kitchens are also supported by [[biogas]] and solar energy as fuel. World's largest solar energy<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://inhabitat.com/world%E2%80%99s-largest-solar-kitchen-in-india-can-cook-upto-38500-meals-per-day/|title=World's Largest 38500-meal Solar Kitchen in India|access-date=2017-03-17|archive-date=2019-03-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330022720/https://inhabitat.com/world%E2%80%99s-largest-solar-kitchen-in-india-can-cook-upto-38500-meals-per-day/|url-status=dead}}</ref> kitchen is built in India. In association with government bodies, India is encouraging domestic biogas plants to support the kitchen system.
[[File:06-Canon EOS 60D335.jpg|thumb|Outdoor kitchen in Takoradi, Ghana]]