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Simmering

Moist-Heat and Combination Cooking Methods

Simmering cooks food in a liquid held just below the boiling point, roughly between 71 and 99 degrees Celsius depending on how a given kitchen defines the term, so the liquid shows only gentle, occasional bubbling rather than the vigorous rolling motion of a full boil. Cooks typically bring a liquid to a boil first and then lower the heat to reach and hold this gentler range. Because it treats food more gently than boiling, simmering suits delicate ingredients and long, slow cooking where a hard boil would toughen meat or break food apart, and the exact temperature cooks call a simmer varies somewhat by tradition and dish.

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1. Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts: 25 Cooking Techniques Every Cook Should Know
Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary ArtsSection 13, Simmering
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Simmering uses steady, gentle bubbles to cook ingredients thoroughly without reaching a full boil.
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Meatball soup (Wikipedia)
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Meatball soup is a soup made using meatballs, simmered with various other ingredients.
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Chicken Soup (Wikipedia)
Prepares Dishes: Chicken Soup, Lead sentence
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Chicken soup is a soup made from chicken, simmered in water, usually with various other ingredients.
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Igado (Wikipedia)
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are cut into thin strips, sautéed with garlic and onions, and simmered in a mixture of soy sauce and vinegar, often seasoned with bay
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Bak kut teh (Wikipedia)
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Hokkien as "meat bone tea", and it usually consists of pork ribs simmered in a broth of herbs and spices (including star anise, cinnamon,
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Wikipedia, Broth
Prepares Dishes: Broth, Lead sentence
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liquid made of water in which meat, fish, or vegetables have been simmered for a period of time.
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Sukiyaki (Wikipedia)
WikipediaPrepares Dishes: Sukiyaki, Lead sentence
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of meat (usually thinly sliced beef) which is slowly cooked or simmered at the table, alongside vegetables and other ingredients, in a
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Tteokbokki (Wikipedia)
WikipediaPrepares Dishes: Tteokbokki, Lead sentence
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TUK-boh-kee; Korean: 떡볶이, pronounced [t͈ʌk̚p͈ok͈i]), topokki or simmered rice cake, is a Korean food made from small-sized garae-tteok
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Simmering (Wikipedia)
In Group: Boiling, Simmering and Poaching Methods, Lead paragraph
Quote, In Group: Boiling, Simmering and Poaching Methods, Lead paragraph
Simmering is a food preparation technique by which foods are cooked in hot liquids kept just below the boiling point of water (lower than 100 °C or 212 °F) and above poaching temperature (higher than 71-80 °C or 160-176 °F).
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