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Cooking
Drug slang A regional street verb for mixing heroin and water and heating it for injection
Nutrition Preparation of food by heating before eating; overcooking produces carcinogenic polycyclic amines; undercooking carries a risk of parasitic—e.g., Taenia solium, T saginata—or bacterial—e.g., E coli 0157:H7, Salmonella spp—infections
Research ethics A ‘soft’ method of manipulating scientific results so that they meet the expected outcome of an experiment, or of changing the readings to meet expected outcomes


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When time is limited, stir-frying is one of the best and fastest ways to prepare a meal and one of the most healthy, too," says Helen Chen in her new "Easy Chinese Stir-Fries" (John Wiley & Sons; $17.
Whether woks are flat-bottomed or round, they normally don''t work well for quick cooking methods, such as stir-frying, when used on electric cookers.
Stir-frying involves little or no liquid and is a quick method, thus most of the vitamins are kept in the food.
 
 
 
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