The Million Dollar Cook-Off

According to the imaginary contest rules, each submission must be completed using Microsoft PowerPoint and should answer the succeeding question:  What connections can be made between the technical procedures that are written within a recipe and the final product that was prepared?  The rules also note that Chef Ramsay is particularly interested to see if you can identify an alternative way to cook your item (i.e., another form of energy).  Revolving around the English Language Arts and Science subjects, your task is as follows:  Utilize your Internet research skills, along with your PowerPoint creation skills, in order to create a presentation to submit into the contest (and, hopefully, wow Chef Ramsay)!