Kitchening

Verb

present participle

1. Present participle of kitchen

Full definition of kitchening

Noun

1. Food preparation.
• 1901, , Friends' Intelligencer and Journal - Volume 58 , There is a large open fireplace, and a good front piazza, to feet by 30, with a smaller porch in the rear, and an enclosed shed, for purposes of light kitchening.
• 1918 , , Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association , Those that are stewed or boiled often betray in their unsatisfactory savor a lack of completeness in the kitchening process — beans, beets, corn, cauliflower, tomatoes, etc., usually exhibiting this defect — and thus is loaded on the digestive function a burden that normal cooking could never impose.
• 2004, Raja Rao , The Great Indian Way: A Life of Mahatma Gandhi , ... the rains came and plastered it all to one constituent whole so that when you had to cut through for a door or stair you'd have to quarry like on the flank of the mountain whence they came — and once quarried and cut, you enter through the main door and you see to the left and to the right, rooms, apartments, corridors that connect one household with the other, and where birth, festivities, and kitchenings took place, and so floor after floor to the rooms of the elders, and further still to the rooms of worship, of Krishna, the Lord, and of Devi, the Benign Goddess, and since stone could no more bear on stone, the last floor was made of delicate fine, chiselled woodwork, ...
• 2009 , Leanne Ely , Saving Dinner the Low-Carb Way , She did every single grocery list in this book, kept her copy-editor eyeball on the recipes, and coordinated the test kitchening.
2. The embellishment of basic food items.
• 2011, John Thorne & ‎Matt Lewis Thorne , Pot on the Fire: Further Confessions of a Renegade Cook , A pinch of salt was a basic kitchening, but a good meal offered that plus a drink and a bit of something else - the "sup" and the "bit."