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@sidd_harth0_5h4h would you consider the act of making hot chocolate cooking or baking?

@vaporeon_ @sidd_harth0_5h4h depends! when I was a kid my parents would get store bought powder mixes that you add directly to warm milk and stir. but you can also do it yourself with cocoa powder or chocolate. my roommates have Mexican hot chocolate that comes in a "brick" that you crumble and mix into warm milk on the stove

@wallhackio I have only ever made instant, which is just making tea, basically

But regardless of method, you cannot bake something and end up with a liquid

@wallhackio neither
imho cooking requires some type of prep, baking is necessarily in an oven
i would say i'm making or boiling hot water/chocolate/tea

@wallhackio ok y'all reminded me about milk, i'm lazy so do water
i will consider boiling milk to be cooking

re: food 

@aescling @wallhackio I will grant that it's not dissimilar to cooking something in a water bath, so maybe? The Wikipedia says "Baking is a method of preparing food that uses dry heat", although that would seem to imply that any microwaving of things that are not themselves [surrounded by] liquids is baking, and I don't know how I feel about that in all cases.

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