steaming?
Both start by boiling a liquid, but in distillation the vapor produced by boiling is captured, cooled, and condensed back to a liquid.
Use a bigger pot!
You boil a substance to evaporate the liquid.
To scald is to bring a liquid just to the point of boiling.
Poaching
Boiling or evaporation describe the process.
Dissolved ions in solution will increase the boiling point of the liquid. Salt in cooking water does this.
Simmering.
The meaning of scald in cooking is to pour boiling water over something, an example would be to scald a duck, by pouring boiling water over a raw duck before roasting helps the skin to release fat and become crispy when roasting.
When a liquid is boiling the temperature stays constant. This is because the heat energy you are adding is being taken away with the vapour being produced.
The liquid with low boiling point.
Whenever some kind of liquid is involved in cooking food, it is being prepared with a "moist-heat method." When you boil eggs, steam hot dogs, or stew beef, you are taking advantage of moist-heating - you are letting the heat travel through the liquid to the food.