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cooking and kitchen vocabulary in English

This American English lesson has incorporated both kitchen vocabulary and cooking vocabulary because while you prepare a meal both scenarios work out at the same time. In this spoken English lesson, you will learn 200 cooking-time dialogues, cooking instructions, cooking verbs, cooking vocabulary, kitchen vocabulary, and kitchen verbs. Although the lesson has plenty of content, the best part is that there are only so many verbs and phrases we say in English while we cook in the kitchen. Once you have mastered them, you are all set for talking about cooking in English.

A trick to master cooking and kitchen verbs; the majority of them are in the form of phrasal verbs. If you have a knack for choosing the correct preposition with a verb, you can make many more commands with the same verbs with the same verb maneuvering them for separate contexts. For example, the verb "cut" can be used with prepositions like "off, out, in".

For your convenience, the lesson has been classified into various sections as you would approach a cooking adventure. First, you would go to the kitchen, check out the recipe, get your ingredients, prepare the stove, organize your counter, work with ingredients, take them to the stove, watch the stove, kill the heat, and finally clean up the kitchen. This vocabulary lesson for cooking and kitchen has followed the same course.

Go through all the American English daily life dialogues of cooking and kitchen verbs below. If you have any doubts regarding them, let me know in the comments.

Ingredients preparing for the cooking vocabulary

  • Check out the recipe.
  • The recipe calls for milk.
  • The recipe says we need three eggs.
  • Get the ingredients off the shelf.
  • Take out the container from the shelf.
  • Put that away (put into the place back.
  • Measure out three cups of flour.
  • Mash the potato.
  • Tenderize the frozen meat.
  • Whip the cream.
  • Fold in the ingredients.
  • Slice the vegetables.
  • Cut off the stem.
  • Cut into the meat.
  • Dice the carrots.
  • Chop/ chop up the leaves.
  • Mince/ mince up the leaves.
  • Shave off/ cut off/ slice off the rind.
  • Add/ mix/ mix up the ingredients.
  • Beat the liquid.
  • Whisk the batter.
  • Blend/ pulverize the fruits.
  • Season the meat.
  • Salt the meat.
  • Eyeball the measurements of spices.
  • Go heavy with/on the salt (which means we need more salt).
  • Go light on the salt (which means we need a small quantity).
  • Crack the egg.
  • Open it up (like a cartoon).
  • Pinch off the egg white.
  • Spread out the frosting.
  • Juice the oranges.
  • Fill up the cup with chopped broccoli.
  • Rip this up into little shreds.
  • We have enough ingredients. Save it for another time.
  • What does that measurement say?
  • Open up the bottle.
  • Grate the carrots.
  • Flatten the meat.
  • Flatten out the dough.
  • Crush the leaves.
  • Scoop out the powder.
  • Pop the joints (as of a chicken).
  • Whisk the ingredients.
  • Don't measure it, just eyeball it.
  • Peel the potato.
  • Sprinkle some pepper.
  • Get the measuring cup.
  • Where do you keep your bowls, I can't find any.
  • Level off the measuring cup.
  • Dump the powder in.
  • Make sure your scoop is all-full.
  • We only need half a teaspoon of that.
  • stick the teaspoon in, scoop it out, level it off, and dump it in.
  • Get the butter, tear the cover, take off the over, shake the butter in, plop it in.
  • I am going to dump it in, you need to pack it down.
  • Scrape out the remaining from the bowl.
  • Scrape down the sides.
  • This knife does not cut pretty well.
  • The recipe says we need broccoli.
  • Rip the cover.
  • Break off the stalks.
  • We need three-fourths of a cup of broccoli.
  • Pour it in.
  • Set it aside for five minutes.
  • Put the salt in.
  • Cut halfway down the onion.
  • Cut all the way down the onion.
  • Cut the onion in half.
  • Do a rough chop.
  • Cube the stem.
  • Add five grams of salt.
  • Add one-half teaspoon of chili powder.
  • Dunk them in the milk.
  • Get out the butter.
  • Get the bottle off the shelf.
  • Stir the salt in.
  • Marinate the fish tonight.
  • Carve the meat into slices.
  • Drain the pasta.
  • Let the water drain away.
  • Knead the dough.
  • Put the frypan on the stove.
  • Measure a half ounce of sugar.
  • Break the egg into the bowl.
  • That pot will make six servings of soup.
  • Mix it up properly otherwise the ingredients will fly away into the air.
  • Line them up (like small dough on a sheet).
  • This batter will fluff up in the pan, so line them up two inches apart.
  • She slathered her toast with butter.

Pre-cooking vocabulary

  • Suit up/ put your apron on.
  • Light the stove.
  • Light the barbeque
  • Turn the stove on.
  • Turn on the gas.
  • Preheat the oven to 375 Fahrenheit.
  • Bring the temperature down to 50 degrees.
  • Heat up the oven.
  • The oven is heated up enough.
  • Turn on the timer.
  • Turn the heat to high.
  • Leave it on high.

Cooking Vocabulary

  • Boil the water.
  • Bake it at 35 degrees.
  • Melt the butter over low heat.
  • Let the food cool.
  • It has cooled off enough to try it.
  • Thaw it (bring it to room temperature).
  • Simmer the stew.
  • Steam the spinach.
  • Steep the tea bag for five minutes.
  • Sauté the rice.
  • Brown the vegetables.
  • Stir the food so that the food does not burn.
  • Don't let the food burn in one spot.
  • Stir the dish.
  • Move it around.
  • Don't forget to poke and pod the ingredients here and then.
  • Break up the ground meat while you stir.
  • Cover the meat with oil.
  • Layer the meat pieces.
  • Roast the meat.
  • Plop the chicken mix on the top.
  • Preheat the skillet.
  • Cook on/over medium heat.
  • Flip the layer.
  • Crisp the bacon.
  • Flip the food into the pan.
  • Sift the flour through a sieve.
  • Roll/ roll out the dough.
  • He is tossing the pizza.
  • Top the pizza with chunks of bell pepper.
  • Let the pizza cool down for a minute.
  • Fry an egg.
  • Scramble the egg.
  • Cover the pot with a lid.
  • Remove the pot from the heat.
  • Stir-Fry the vegetables in the pan.
  • Microwave the soup.
  • Heat up the oven.
  • Stick it in the microwave.
  • Braise the vegetables (closed container, little water).
  • Parboil the vegetables (until half cooked).
  • Poach the fish (cook in water).
  • Spin-roast the chicken.
  • Warm up yesterday's turkey.
  • Heat up your lunch in the microwave.
  • Don't overheat the vegetables.
  • Put the heat high.
  • What is cooking? (like you smell something nice and you wonder what food is cooked).
  • Bring it to a boil... then put it to a simmer.
  • Brown the meat.
  • Taste the turkey.
  • Freeze the meat in the freezer.
  • Simmer the sauce over low heat.
  • Heat up the food/ nuke the food in the microwave.
  • Sprinkle some herbs.
  • shred the cabbage.
  • Turn the meat over.
  • Remove the pot from the heat.
  • Cover the pot with a lid.
  • Steam the vegetables until just tender.
  • Check on the dish.
  • Watch the dish.
  • Let the dish cool down for 30 minutes.
  • Give the soup another stir.
  • Skim off the oil portion on the top.
  • Check for the flavor.
  • Put them in the oven.
  • Soften up the butter.
  • Make sure to cook the meat long enough.
  • Don't overcook them.
  • Cook it until the sauce thickens.
  • Baste the turkey.

End of the cooking

  • Turn off/ down the heat.
  • Lower the heat.
  • Bring down the heat.
  • Kill the heat.
  • Reduce the heat to low.

After-cooking kitchen vocabulary

  • I have to do the dishes by hand.
  • Wipe down the dishes.
  • clean off the counter.
  • Put the pack away.
  • Rinse out the glass.
  • Scrub off the sink.
  • Turn the fan on so that the smell will be sucked up.
  • Do the dishes.
  • Turn on the water (faucet).
  • The water does not drain out in the sink.
  • Clean off the cutting board.
  • Rinse with cold water.

All cooking verbs in English

  • Bake
  • Barbecue
  • Boil
  • Broil
  • Brown
  • Caramelize
  • Char
  • Chargrill
  • Cook
  • Cool
  • Crisp
  • Flip
  • Fry
  • Glaze
  • Grill
  • Heat
  • Melt
  • Microwave
  • Poach
  • Preheat
  • Pulverize
  • Roast
  • Sauté
  • Scramble
  • Sear
  • Sift
  • Simmer
  • Smoke
  • Soften
  • Steam
  • Steep
  • Stew

All kitchen verbs (ingredients preparation)

  • Add
  • Beat
  • Blend
  • Break
  • Carve
  • Chop
  • Combine
  • Crumble
  • Crush
  • Cube
  • Cut
  • Cut up
  • Cut off
  • Cut into
  • Dice
  • Dissolve
  • Drain
  • Flatten
  • Grate
  • Grease
  • Grind
  • Knead
  • Mash 
  • Measure
  • Mince
  • Mix
  • Peel
  • Plop
  • Pound
  • Pour
  • Pulverize
  • Rip up
  • Roll out
  • Salt
  • Scoop
  • Season
  • Shave off
  • Shred
  • Slice
  • Sprinkle
  • Squeeze
  • Tenderize
  • Wash
  • Weigh
  • Whisk

 

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