13 Cooking and Food + Verbs - Nouns to bake: 10 cook e.g. cakes and bread in the oven, to baste: to pour olor liquid fat ‘over meat while it is cooking to beat eggs: to mixthe white and the yolk together in a bow! with a fork to bring sth to the bolt: to boil sth to carve: to cut a piece of meat, usually into slices, to chop: to cut sth (usually vegetables) into smal pieces culsine: a particular style of cooking Italian cuisine is my favourite, {0 detrost: to allow or cause sth to become untrozen @ dlah: () a shallow container with a wide uncavered top, used to eal! serve/cook food (i) a particular kind Ol food propared in a particular way My favourite Chinese dish is sweet and sour chicken to dress: to put a mixture of ol, vinegar, salt, ete (Salad dressing) ona salad folk: metai paper used in cooking to grate: to cud sth (especially cheese and carrots) into small, tong, thin pieces, using a grater 4 grater: a kitchen tool which has rough surace (used for cuting {00d inio very small pieces) to grind: to crush pepper corns or Cotfee beans into powder or very small pieces, trostly ground cottee to Ice: to put icing (a coating of sot sugar) on the outside of a cake kote: a covered container used tor boiling water to knead: 10 press and streich dough (the miture of flour, water, elc Used to make bread) to marinade: o leave food (betore it ' cooked) in a specially prepared liquid (otten a mixture of ot and spices) so as to make it more tender or to give ita special taste pan: a round, metal container used Tor cooking things in to peel: to remove the skin from tevit ‘or vegetables plate: @ round flat dish used for holding food te pluck: to pullout he feathers from ‘a chicken, turkey, etc so as to prepare it for cooking to poach: to cook eggs (without their shells) in a special pan in ‘which the eggs are cooked above tolling water pot: deep round. container used for ‘cooking soups, stews, ete 1 recipe: cooking instructions to rinse: to quickly wash sth, generally using running water to roast: to cook meat or vegetables in the oven roast potatoes; roast lamb ‘torrustie up: to quickly cook sth foften when you were not expecting to cook) to scrub: to wash sth vigorously, sometimes by using a special brush to season: to add salt, pepper or spices to food, especially when it is being cooked to shell: to remove the hard outside covering of nuts, some seeds and some sea creatures (crabs, prawns, etc) aleve: a tool used for separating solids from liquids to sizzle: describes the noise sth makes when itis being fried to soak: 10 leave food (especially beans) in water so that it becomes soft or so that it absorbs the water to sprinkle: to drop small pieces of sall, cheese, sugar, etc on sth, Using a spoon or your fingers to stuff: to fil he inside of sth (often {chicken or turkey) with a bread or rice mixture, ete to thicken: to make a sauce thicker to toss @ salad: 10 mix a salad to whip: to str cream very quickly so that it becomes sti Idioms, verbs, expressions to go bananas: to become very angry oF very excited ‘She go bananas when she finds ‘out that you have lost her watch. 2 breadwinner: a person who ‘supports a family with the money she or he earns ‘After my father died, | became the ‘family’s only breadwinner. | to butter ab up: to be very pleasant to sb (and often pay them compliments) because you want sth from them Don't try to butter me up! | won't let you have my car. ‘88 different as chalk and che: very different from each other Although they're twins, they're as diferent as chalk and cheese. ‘sth Is not my cup of tea: (informal | don't particulary ike sth Opera isn't really my cup of tea fo grill sb: to ask sb a lot of questions (often in an aggressive way) to make them confess to sth The police grilled him for 4 hours ‘but he told them nothing. Ws like an oven in here: this room is very hot How can you study in this room? It's like an oven in heres peanuts: (said of a sum of money) vvery small 1 like my job but it pays peanuts! 4 ploce of cake: very easy to do Don't worry about the exam. iti! be a piece of cake. to simmer down (of feelings): to calm down, having been very angry ‘d wait for him before talking t0 hi to take sth with a pinch of salt: not 10 believe that stn is completely accurate or rue He may say he's a top golfer, but you have to take everthing he ‘says with a pinch of salt. simmer down_.Practice 1. Fallin the gaps that follow the verbs with ood items from the box below turkey ~ egg ugar fro a cake - cheese chicken dough - cream ~ a sauce coffer bears ~ prawns ~ mat 1 You grate 8 You whip 2 You baste 9 You sprinkle onsth 3 You stuff 10. You thicken 4 You gund 11. You shell 5 You beat 12. You detrost 6 You knead 13 You roast 7 You pluck 14 You ice 2. a. 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