Cooking - Home-cooking Vs. Factory Cooking

Home-cooking Vs. Factory Cooking

Although cooking has traditionally been a process carried out informally in a home or around a communal fire, cooking is also often carried out outside of personal quarters, for example at restaurants, or schools. Bakeries were one of the earliest forms of cooking outside the home, and bakeries in the past often offered the cooking of pots of food provided by their customers as an additional service. In the present day, factory food preparation has become common, with many "ready-to-eat" foods being prepared and cooked in factories and home cooks using a mixture of scratch made, and factory made foods together to make a meal.

"Home-cooking" may be associated with comfort food, and some commercially produced foods are presented through advertising or packaging as having been "home-cooked", regardless of their actual origin.

  • Chicken with lemons on a large wooden cutting board.

  • A restaurant kitchen in Munich, Germany (Haxnbauer restaurant).

  • A kitchen in Beijing, China with an assortment of foods.

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