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On the stove
Answer for the clue "On the stove ", 7 letters:
cooking
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cooking or cookery is the art , technology and craft of preparing food for consumption with the use of heat. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the world , from grilling food over an open fire to using electric stoves, to baking in various ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a cooking apple catering/restaurant/cooking facilities ▪ The rooms all have cooking facilities and a fridge. cooking apple cooking chocolate (= chocolate to use in cooking ) ▪ Melt the cooking chocolate and spread ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" [syn: cookery , preparation ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
(context informal English) In progress, happening. n. 1 The process of preparing food by using heat. 2 (context by extension English) The process of preparing food. v (present participle of cook English)
Usage examples of cooking.
The cooking, I can tell you, kept her nose to the pot, and even if there was nothing in it, even if there was no pot, she had to keep watching that it came aboil just the same.
English dishes, he was acquainted with the French system of cooking, and did fricandeaus, cutlets, ragouts, and above all, the excellent French soup, which is one of the principal glories of France.
The two women disappeared behind the afterclap, the canvas screen at the back of the wagon, and Sarah called for the servants to bring the copper hip bath and buckets of hot water from the cooking fire.
She smiled, watching with satisfaction as Alec tucked in to her cooking.
He sniffed the air, the scent a mixture of diesel oil and diesel exhaust from the emergency generator, ozone from the electrical equipment, cooking oil, lubricating oils, and amines from the atmospheric control equipment.
The electrical smell of the ship came into his nostrils, a brew of cooking oil, ozone, diesel fuel, cleaning solution, and amines, the perfume of it filling him with nostalgia.
We think that the ascorbic acid in the food from that last planet may be affected by the cooking process, so we need to test the food you served tonight.
Pliocene world would remember the last days at the auberge for French cooking, soft beds, and precious works of art.
Our cook is a gentle, avuncular Muslim called Doud whose careful rhythm of prayer and cooking and cleaning washes like a balm from his small inferno behind the dining room and soothes in waves across our house.
There is some romance in the San Francisco cooking, too, if the oldtimers who bemourn the old days only realized it.
Mad Binny was cooking up a love potion, either that or a batch of pollen butter.
The biogas rising from the pit was trapped and piped into the houses, to be used for cooking and lighting.
Dad said that Bish Ware had called in, with nothing to report but a vague suspicion that something nasty was cooking.
Fagging was not part of the official system at Spey, and he did not want the trouble of cooking another bloater if this one grew cold and, in his view, inedible.
Her herbroom was filled with the smells of cooking borage leaves for aches, teas of wild thyme to help clear lungs, pine oil to ease breathing.