Flash frying is a cooking technique in which you fry your food in a frying pan filled with oil at a very high temperature for a minimal amount of time. The technique comes from Chinese cooking and is also known as "bao" or "explode cooking."

All sausages fall into one of two categories: fresh sausage, such as fresh kielbasa or bratwurst, and pre-cooked sausage like smoked sausage or knockwurst, according to the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council.

The typical ways to make popcorn are on the stove top or in the microwave. Both the stove top and the microwave provide the fast burst of heat that popcorn needs to pop. The oven is not the ideal tool for making popcorn. It is, however, possible if you can satisfy certain conditions.

Pierogies, traditional Eastern European dumplings, consist of a pasta-like dough encasing a filling that can include anything from potatoes and cheese to sauteed vegetables to fruit. Fresh pierogies can be deep-fried, sauteed, baked, grilled or boiled, but they cannot be cooked in the microwave.

You can save time and energy by cooking a ribeye roast in a convection oven. Professional chefs have used convection ovens to prepare roasts for many years, but you can now get a smaller sized convection oven for home use.

On busy weekdays, a quick, fuss-free chicken dinner can be a lifesaver. Your oven is a good option for preparing these meals -- while dinner cooks, you can turn your attention to steaming or microwaving some vegetables, cooking rice or pasta and setting the table, all in under 40 minutes.

Mincemeat or minced meat, is meat that has been finely chopped and separated. This is the same technique used in ground meats. Usually the meat is run through a grinder that cuts and separates the meat fibers and then is run through several more times for a tender ground meat product.

Cooking a turkey on a Weber gas grill may require a few more steps than traditional oven roasting, but results in a much crispier and well-browned skin over juicy turkey meat. Weber gas grills vary in size and accessories, but even the smallest should be able to accommodate a whole turkey.

When it comes to coating chicken for cooking -- particularly for fried chicken-- flour is the common go-to, but if you want very crisp, crunchy skin, cornstarch is the better option. Cornstarch is a pure starch often used as a thickening agent for sauces and soups, and is commonly used in Asian cooking for stir-fries.

Most cookie recipes call for all-purpose flour. A very few require cake flour or bread flour; however, sometimes you need to work with what you have on hand.

Boudin is a type of sausage native to France. The dish became popular in Louisiana and Cajun cuisine after being introduced by the French.

Cocktail wieners, or little smokies, smothered in warm barbecue sauce is a classic party appetizer that's simple to prepare. Little smokies are bite-sized, fully-cooked smoked sausages that only need to be reheated to enjoy.