Cooking methods follow a flow that helps a cook identify the texture, color, taste, and numbers of ingredients, while designing a dish.
For example:
Pretreatments are used before the primary element is edible.
1st Stage methods are when the major transformation happens to the Primary Element so that it is digestible and edible.
2nd stage methods are (not left-overs - reheated) re-created from first stage methods. They follow a complete first stage method.
It is also not uncommon to take the Primary Elements through to another stage or two, sometimes, combining with a sauce or mixed Primary Elements that have been treated separately in the first stage.
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