TheTurkeyKing wrote:Steve wrote:Heating stuff up is not cooking.
Now, I don't claim to be a chef or anything, but surely that's almost EXACTLY what cooking something is.
No. When you're heating up something you're just increasing the temperature of something that has been cooked in a previous moment. When you cook something you're permanently altering its condition: ie. if you cook a raw egg there's no way of bringing it back to its gooey transparent condition, when you're cooking raw meat you can't just cool it and bring it back to its old pink self. But with pre-cooked stuff you can pretty much cool it down and you'll barely tell it apart from the one you just bought. Obviously you can re-heat an egg or a slab of meat that you previously cooked as well.
And in the pre-cooked junk you buy at supermarkets they usually put in weird preservatives to keep the stuff from going bad too soon.
