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A tag is a keyword or label that categorizes your question with other, similar questions.
Questions about cooking by dry heat without direct exposure to a flame, typically in an oven.
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Our community answers question on food safety as defined by official regulations. Questions and answers that contradict that view, are considered off-topic.
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Questions about possible substitutions for an ingredient. Please indicate the reason for substitution.
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Questions about kneading, baking, storing, and culinary use of any kind of bread.
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Questions on selecting, maintaining, and using cooking tools and equipment.
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Questions about handling, preparing, or cooking chicken, either whole or parts.
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Questions on understanding and manipulating the flavor of foods. Not for "what goes with X?" which is generally off-topic. Please don't use if the only connection is that you want better-tasting food, this is implied in every question on the site.
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Questions about preparing or baking cakes, defined as chemically or mechanically (using eggs) leavened flour batter.
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Questions about how to store food so as to preserve its freshness and overall quality.
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Methods, techniques, and quality/safety concerns around the freezing of various foods.
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All about the scientific theories behind food. Cooking myths debunked here.
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Questions about what temperature is optimal for cooking/preparing certain food or how certain temperatures can affect different types of food. Questions can also include how to best achieve/maintain a certain temperature for a specific type of food.
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Questions about selecting, operating, and maintaining conventional and convection ovens.
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For questions about chocolate as an ingredient. Also includes questions about the use of other cocoa-based products and questions about chocolate drinks.
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Fats from plant sources that are liquid at room temperature, such as olive oil, canola oil and peanut oil. Questions about the use of oils or about which oils to choose for a specific culinary purpose are appropriate here. As per the FAQ, please avoid asking about health matters in this tag unless you have a *specific* nutritional question - for example, the effect of saturation on smoke point.
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Questions about the identification, use, storage, and sometimes production of cheese.
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Questions about LONG-TERM food storage such as canning, pickling, freezing, and drying.
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Questions about the make, manufacture, preparation, and cooking of all types of pasta, including traditional durum wheat, whole wheat, and gluten-free.
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For questions about animals that live under water, whether fresh water or salt water.
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Beef is the meat of adult cattle (cows & bulls). Use this tag for questions about selecting, identifying, storing, preparing, replacing or cooking with beef as an ingredient. Questions about dishes which include beef, but are not focused on beef, should not use this tag.
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For questions about cleaning kitchen equipment after use. Please also tag with type of equipment you're cleaning. Do not use for food preparation (washing produce, cleaning fish, etc), just use the tag for the food you're preparing
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Questions about preparing, baking and troubleshooting any cookies (also known as biscuits). Cookies are flat baked sweets which are usually small enough to be hand-held.
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Culinary use of spices, defined as the edible but non-leafy parts of certain plants.
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Refers to the culinary definition of fruit: a sweet and/or seed-containing part of a plant that roughly resembles a botanical fruit, even if it is not a seed-containing botanical fruit.
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A soup is a dish obtaining most of its flavor from a liquid created by extracting flavor from solids such as meat and vegetables.
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Coffee may refer to either the beverage, coffee beans, or just the flavor. See also http://coffee.stackexchange.com/, a dedicated site for coffee. Questions *purely* about coffee can be asked there, but cooking questions involving coffee are definitely best asked here.
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