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No-Fire Cooking

Rating 3.3
Word count
1.3K words
Chapters
81
ISBN
9787558342721

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Summary

This cookbook is written for complete beginners in the kitchen.

Every dish relies on appliances that involve no open flame—microwaves, ovens, rice cookers and the like—so cooking stays safe. The steps are simple and detailed, making them easy for beginners to follow; the results are quick and convenient. Alongside healthy, nutritious recipes, the book includes measurement notes, a beginner's classroom, appliance tips and a dietary guide to help novices level up with ease.

The book offers 68 dishes in total: fruit salads, staple carbohydrates, nourishing soups, vegetable dishes, meat dishes, and snacks and sweets.

Editor's review

No-Fire Cooking is an ingenious and practical guide to everyday living that pinpoints the modern urbanite's urgent need for convenient, healthy food in a fast-paced life. This is not a conventional cookbook; its core value lies in proposing a new kitchen philosophy: make the most of modern kitchen appliances (rice cookers, microwaves, air fryers, blenders and more) and pre-prepped ingredients that need no open flame to get a meal on the table efficiently. In the editor's view, the book's strength is its adaptability to different situations—whether you are an office worker in a rental where lighting a burner is impractical, a student who must sort out three meals a day over the summer holidays, or a home cook pursuing low-fume, healthy cooking, you will find workable solutions here. The recipes are logically structured and broken down into meticulous steps, with especially thorough guidance on heat levels, timing and substitute tools, which lowers the cost of trial and error. From a professional standpoint, the author team, Zizai Children's Books, shows outstanding insight into daily life and strong content integration, elevating what might seem a scattered set of 'lazy recipes' into a systematic 'flameless cooking methodology.' The value of reading this book lies not only in learning a few dishes but in prompting readers to re-examine their kitchen tools and eating habits and to find an elegant balance between efficiency and flavor.

Who it's for

A good fit for

  • Office workers who want efficiency and convenience and wish to reduce kitchen fumes and cleaning chores
  • Students or renters whose living conditions rule out open-flame cooking
  • Fitness enthusiasts focused on healthy eating who want to try more low-fat, low-oil cooking methods
  • Hobbyists keen to explore the functions of novel kitchen appliances such as air fryers and food processors

Not a good fit for

  • Purists devoted to traditional Chinese stir-frying who seek maximum 'wok hei' and complex seasoning
  • Culinary beginners hoping to systematically learn professional techniques and underlying principles

Reading tips

  1. Start by reading the first chapter's guide to tools and ingredient preparation to build a basic framework for flameless cooking
  2. Then choose recipes from the relevant chapters based on the appliances you already own, working from simple to complex
  3. Keep sticky notes handy to mark recipes or tips that interest you for quick reference later

About the publisher

Beijing Guangban New Century Culture Media Co., Ltd. was founded in 2003 and focuses on domestic book and periodical distribution as well as book planning. Public information is limited; based on the books in our catalog, its publishing spans mystery and detective fiction, foreign literature, and food and lifestyle titles. Representative books include Arthur Conan Doyle's The Complete Sherlock Holmes: A Bilingual Children's Classic Translation Edition, Volume 1, Jostein Gaarder's The Castle in the Pyrenees, and Chen Dinghong's No-Fire Cooking. Its author and translator resources include Ma Ainong, Wang Mengda, and Zizai Tongshu. Its publishing emphasizes imported literature and bilingual adaptations of children's classics, alongside detective reading and food culture, with attention to translation quality and reading experience.

Contents

  1. 版权信息
  2. 计量说明
  3. 熊小厨小白课堂
  4. 厨房电器小贴士
  5. 中国居民膳食指南
  6. 中国学龄儿童膳食指南
  7. 水果凉菜
  8. 葡萄刺猬
  9. 香蕉金鱼
  10. 红枣梨汤
  11. 苹果热橙汁
  12. 乾隆白菜
  13. 小葱拌豆腐
  14. 凉拌黄瓜
  15. 凉拌萝卜丝
  16. 圆白菜沙拉
  17. 碳水主食
  18. 即食三明治
  19. 厚蛋三明治
  20. 煮馄饨
  21. 紫菜包饭
  22. 牛奶吐司
  23. 土豆胡萝卜芝士饼
  24. 焖米饭
  25. 南瓜小米粥
  26. 赤小豆薏米粥
  27. 蒸红薯
  28. 香菇鸡肉粥
  29. 西红柿焖饭
  30. 窝蛋肥牛饭
  31. 豆角焖面
  32. 营养汤羹
  33. 绿豆汤
  34. 素高汤
  35. 鸡汤
  36. 玉米排骨汤
  37. 菌菇豆腐汤
  38. 素菜
  39. 烤时蔬
  40. 蒜蓉生菜
  41. 茭白蔬菜煲
  42. 蒜蓉茄子
  43. 土豆泥
  44. 西红柿菜花
  45. 香菇油菜
  46. 蒜蓉西蓝花
  47. 香烤豆腐
  48. 醋熘豆芽
  49. 手撕圆白菜
  50. 白灼菜心
  51. 茄汁西葫芦
  52. 荤菜
  53. 鸡蛋羹
  54. 菠菜鸡蛋杯
  55. 韭菜炒鸡蛋
  56. 西红柿炒鸡蛋
  57. 豆腐丸子
  58. 烤鸡翅
  59. 红烧牛肉
  60. 糖醋排骨
  61. 干煸四季豆
  62. 叉烧鸡胸肉
  63. 鱼香肉丝
  64. 红焖虾
  65. 宫保鸡丁
  66. 清蒸鲈鱼
  67. 萝卜烧牛肉
  68. 胡萝卜炒肉
  69. 黄焖鸡
  70. 红焖羊排
  71. 虾仁滑蛋
  72. 娃娃菜肉卷
  73. 孜然羊肉
  74. 点心零食
  75. 银耳莲子羹
  76. 燕麦曲奇
  77. 苏打饼干
  78. 烤红薯片
  79. 芝麻薄脆
  80. 炸薯条
  81. 美食实拍图

FAQ

Do the recipes in this book really require no open flame at all?
The book's core principle is to avoid open flames (gas stoves, gas burners). Most recipes rely on appliances such as rice cookers, microwaves, ovens and air fryers for heating and cooking. A few cold-mixed or marinated dishes require no heating at all.
Are the ingredients and seasonings easy to find?
The author has taken care to choose widely available ingredients, mainly those commonly found in supermarkets and on e-commerce platforms. Seasonings are mostly basic sauces and compound condiments, easy to buy and store.
How difficult is this book for kitchen novices?
It is very well suited to beginners. The steps are broken down in detail and precisely quantified (down to grams, milliliters and minutes), and the hardest part of traditional cooking—controlling heat—is avoided, so the success rate is high and confidence builds quickly.

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Zizai Tongshu is a collective byline oriented toward the writing and publishing of children's books. Public information is limited, and no further details about its members, founding date, or location are currently available. The database holds one title under this name, No-Fire Cooking, commonly classified under food and cooking. Judging from the title and category, the book appears to be organized around preparing everyday meals without an open flame or stove, a subject close to the practical needs of home kitchens. Its likely readers include those who wish to simplify cooking, reduce cooking fumes, or prepare food where lighting a fire is inconvenient. As a byline associated with children's books, it may also carry over a plain, easy-to-follow style with clear steps that ordinary readers can follow. With only one title in the database, it is not yet possible to judge the overall style or editorial direction, and further material would be needed for a fuller assessment.

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