please help! I'm quite lost!!

[royalsweet16]

Hi. Thank you all for reading this.
I'm so lost on easy and simplest question.

What are the four ways to cook chicken?
I'm studying Gastronomy and it's one of my questions on homework that
I can not find the answer.

I have to find four basic ways to cook it.
I mean, there must be tons of ways to cook chicken, isn't there?
So what am I suppose to write?
I was thinkin' of grilling, boiling, and stuff like that.

Please help me!

[GhettoRacingKid]

grill, poach, fry, roast, steam, sautee, braise etc...(sous vide but thats not basic.)

chicken is a very versitile protein. I dont think there isnt anything you cant do with it.

[GrandMasterD]

I'm not a pro but my answer would be

Roast (air heat)
Poach (water heat)
Deep Fry and saute (oil heat)
Steam (steam heat)

Hope I pass the exam.

[boar_d_laze]

I don't believe there is a right answer when it comes to classic cuisine. This leads me to believe that "the four ways" are in your reading or were covered in class.

From a physics perspective, I might say:

Grill, saute -- direct heat
Braise, steam -- indirect heat in a humid vessel (see fry)
Fry, poach, simmer (soup) -- immersion contact/conduction heat
Roast -- convection or mixed convection/direct

To make it less technical and look at it from what I imagine a HS home-ec perspective to be, that would be two dry and two wet heats. But... I never studied gastronomy in HS. Ask me about smoking behind the cafeteria.

Good luck sweet16,
BDL

[royalsweet16]

Thank you Thank you

Actually, in my class we only watch the chef cooking so

this Q was given to us so that we would research.

I looked everywhere but I simply couldn't find the 'four' ways!

Anyways!

Thank you so much!