so you can lock in flavour and make the food last longer
Smoking in cooking refers to cooking a food using dry heat and allowing it to cook in the smoke from the heat.
Moist-heat cooking is cooking the food in a moist environment. Ways to do this is by boiling, steaming, and braising. This helps to tenderize the food more than through dry heat cooking.
Rub the food on a brown paper bag. If it leaves an oily spot that does not dry, it contains fat.
Four dry heat cooking methods are roasting, baking, broiling, and grilling.
Dry heat cooking is by applying heat directly without using any liquid such as water or wine. However, for Moist heat cooking, it is cooking food use by either hot water or steam. These methods include poaching, simmering, and steaming. It should also be noted that any cooking method using oil (deep frying, sauteing, etc.) is considered dry heat cooking.
Baking refers to a specific kind of cooking, that which involves cooking by dry heat. It refers particularly to cooking in an oven. Baking generally, but not always, involves a leavening, such as yeast, a grain base, such as flour, water or milk, and a small amount of oils, eggs, or flavorings. Cooking refers to the preparation of food in general, and as such is a broader category which baking is part of.
The different combination cooking methods are as follows: bake + broil, sear + bake, sear + roast, boil + simmer, boil + bake, and poach + fry. These are the most common methods of combination cooking, however this list never ends.
Dry-heat cooking refers to any cooking technique where the heat is transfered to the food item without using any moisture. Dry-heat cooking typically involves high temperatures, meaning 300°F or hotter. Which means, Roasting, Broiling, Grilling, and Baking.
Grilling does not conduct heat because it is a known as dry heat cooking. It is where the heat goes to the food without having any moisture.
Cooking by dry heat, as in a convection oven.
You can make muffins without fats or oils. The better oils are the oils that are both easy to mix and are good for you and improve the taste from a dry muffin to a moist and chewy muffin that is greasy. The choice is yours. Muffins are dry little things and to me only need a teaspoon of olive oil per 5 muffins. If you need more oily flavor then add butter after the muffin is cooked and hot by splitting the muffin and add a pat of butter. Caution: Any food made with unsaturated oils can become heart damaging if the food is heated so hot that it turns brown. The oils can become trans fats when heated. So the best oils for cooking is right back to the saturated fats that need to be melted to add to the ingredients, like bacon fat, beef fat, and butter! Unsaturated fat like soy and corn oil and canola are so aggressive at destroying DNA if they are fried or overheated that many cities have banned using them for food sales.
Depending on the meat, high heat cooking can dry it out. But sometimes if you like your steak rare for instance you should cook it at a high heat for a short period of time, but for something like pork, this is not the best idea. The general rule is that high is dry, so go low and slow. Best of Luck!