Cooking Method

cooking
Food that has been prepared in a particular way
The process of preparing food by heating it
The practice or skill of preparing food
the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"
(cook) someone who cooks food
(cook) prepare a hot meal; "My husband doesn't cook"

method
a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps)
method acting: an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed
A particular form of procedure for accomplishing or approaching something, esp. a systematic or established one
In object-oriented programming, a method is a subroutine that is exclusively associated either with a class (in which case it is called a class method or a static method) or with an object (in which case it is an instance method).
Orderliness of thought or behavior; systematic planning or action