The cooking in Indian household is still done by the women of the house. During old times the Indian women sat on the floor and cooked the meal on coal or wood. Now the times have changed and most of the houses have gas stove to cook their meal, still some poor households use coal or wood to cook their food.
Instead of a pan Indian women prefer to cook in a wok as heat is spread evenly in wok as compared to a pan. The wok also uses less oil and the food is fried quickly. To drain out excess oil draining spoon is used. The tandoori style of coking has become very popular here. Chicken is cooked in tandoori style, but mutton and fish is also cooked in a tandoor. Nowadays you will find many vegetarian dishes like cottage cheese, potato cooked in tandoor.
In tandoori style cooking you marinate the dish in spices and curd and then roasted in a tandoor that is an earthenware pot. The taste of the food is very good and the fresh spices make it very tasty. It is very healthy also as there is not much oil used for cooking these types of dishes. Naan or chapattis are also made in the tandoor. You will find gas tandoor in the market. It is run on gas instead of using coal.
In Indian cooking there is very little water used. The natural water of the vegetables is used to cook it. The food is generally cooked on slow fire. The bases of Indian saucepans or wok are generally heavy so that food is not burned. When the food is cooked slowly, then it retains all its nutritional values. These methods of Indian coking make it more healthy and tasty.