Parboiling
Parboiling was a cooking technique to boil foods for their use later.

In 2373, Neelix had to parboil each of the Porakan eggs that the  picked up from Porakas IV. After listing all of these details while preparing Lieutenant Tuvok's breakfast, Tuvok declared "Mr. Neelix, I would prefer not to hear the life history of my breakfast." ()

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Culinary arts