what's the differences among condiment, seasoning & flavouring?!
are they all for eat? or some of them are just for cooking?
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Condiment is which usually to dip the food after cooking as to impart a particular flavor or to complement the dish. Examples: ketchup, chili sauce.
Seasoning is which usually used for marination before cooking for improving the flavor. Examples, herbs, spices.
Flavouring is which usually used while cooking to impart a particular flavour to food. Examples: salt, peppermint oil.
Actually they are all to help enhancing the taste, I am not 100% sure but these are my thoughts.
There's definitely some overlap here, but there are differences in their definitions.
A condiment is anything you add to your food after it's been cooked and put on the plate. That might be ketchup, soy sauce, mayonnaise, horseradish, mustard, chopped pickles, chutney, salsa, etc.
Seasoning is usually ingredients used during cooking to enhance other flavours. Most commonly, that's salt and pepper. You can also get seasoning "mixes" at supermarkets. Some people consider herbs and spices to be the same thing as seasoning, but I don't personally agree.
Flavouring... Well, that one's very ambiguous. It could literally be ANYTHING that has a flavour, which you use to add that flavour to another dish. For example, if you add cinnamon to your French toast batter, that's a flavouring. The batter would be perfectly fine without it, but you've added it for the sake of flavour.
If something is for cooking, it's obviously also for eating, so I'm not sure what you mean by your last question.