Cooking Vocabulary in English - chop, grill, saute, boil, slice...

Hi again. Welcome back to www.engvid.com. I'm Adam. Today's lesson is a very interesting

one. It's one of my favourites. Why? Because I love to eat. Actually, a long time ago,

before I was a teacher, before I did any of that, I went to culinary school. "Culinary"

-- I learned how to cook. I was going to be a chef. But then I worked at a restaurant,

actually I worked in a few restaurants and I decided: "Nope, I don't want to be a chef

anymore." But I still like to cook, I still love to eat. So some of my students were asking

me for kitchen vocab, some culinary cooking vocab.

First, let's start with this question: "What's cookin'?" Now, it could mean: "Ah, something

smells good. What's cookin'?" Means what are you making, what dish are you making? But

sometimes, people will ask this as slang: "What's cookin?" means: "What's happening?

How are things? How are you?" Just so you know. A good idiom to recognize.

So we're looking at kitchen vocab. When we're talking about cooking, we're talking about

culinary arts. Okay? So you ever hear this expression: "culinary" means about cooking,

about food. Now, before I get into these actions, some

of these actions that you will use while you are cooking, it's a moral imperative that

I spend a minute about these two words. What does "moral imperative" mean? It means that

to be a good person, I must tell you something about these words. First: "a chef", a chef

is a person who studied cooking, went to school and studied, has worked in many restaurants,

and has practiced for a long time in his art, his cooking skills. This person - or her -, this

person probably has a diploma and is usually the boss of a kitchen in a restaurant somewhere.

Now, "a cook" is a person who is just starting to cook or somebody who just makes food at

home. Anybody can be a cook. So "cook" could be a noun, the person, or: "to cook", verb,

to prepare dishes. Now, very, very, very important and I must stress this: "cook", the pronunciation

of this word is very important. It's: "uh", "uh", "uhk". "Cook", okay? "Cook". Sounds

like, it rhymes with: "look" or: "took" or: "book". Okay? "Book", "took", "look", "cook".

It does not, not rhyme with: "rock" or: "sock" or: "lock". Okay? Not. So if somebody says

to you: "Oh, I'm a good cock." Say: "I'm happy for you. Bye-bye." Okay? Because they're talking

about something else completely. "Cook", be very careful about this word.

Okay, let's get started. Let's say you're on the internet, you want to look for some

new dishes, you want to surprise your family with a nice new meal from a different country

maybe. You get on the internet and you find a "recipe", recipe for a nice dish. But, you're

not sure about how to make it because you don't recognize some of these actions. "Pot",

"pan", all of these things you can understand. My little stove here, and my little oven here,

I'm sure you can understand. Let's look at the actions.

"To saute", now this word actually comes from the French, but we use it in English as well.

"To saute" means in a skillet or in a pan, to cook lightly. So you have your pan, your

flat pan, put a little bit of oil, put in your onions on the stove, and you saute, you

flip, you cook it a little bit to a little bit brown, and then you put other things in

it or you add it to other things. "Boil/simmer", these are very similar actions.

"Boil", you put something in a pot, like something like this and high, full of water. You put

the heat very, very high. So boiling is very high heat, big bubbles, and very fast moving.

"Bluh, bluh, bluh, bluh, bluh." Right? Like very boiling, so the bubbles go very fast

and very high. "Simmer" means lower heat, small bubbles moving slowly. Okay? So when

you're making a nice soup or a stew, first you get everything boiling, and then you reduce

the heat and let it simmer for like an hour; get all the flavours to blend together really

nicely. Then you have: "broil/roast". So "broil" and

"roast", we're using the oven. If you want to cook something like very quickly and get

the top like very crispy, you broil. "Broil" means heat from the top, so the heat is going

like this on to the food. "Roast" means the heat is coming from the bottom and the sides,

so it cooks the inside and takes a little bit longer. Okay.

"Grill". "Grill", like for example: when you barbeque. When you're barbequing, you are

grilling. You have the lines of the grill, you put your steak on it, then you flip it,

etcetera. That's grilling, usually with fire, coals, lines.

Next: you're preparing your... All your "ingredients". That's another good word. You're preparing

all your ingredients, all the things that will go into the dish.

So you have to "chop" or "dice". Now, if you're a chef, there's a difference between "chop"

and "dice". If you're cooking at home, there's no difference. Like quickly cut, you take

your knife, your cutting board and: "Ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch"

into little pieces. The only difference between these two is the size that... Of the onion,

let's say you're cutting onion into little pieces. "Chop", "dice".

"Slice". "Slice" means you're getting larger pieces. If you take your onion, you slice,

you have a nice round piece of onion and then you put it on your hamburger. Very delicious.

"Fry", anything that you do with oil, even sautéing is a type of frying because you're

doing it with oil. "Deep-fry" means you cover it with oil. Regular "fry" means just oil

both sides, away you go. "Stir", so when you're simmering something,

don't forget once in a while to give it a stir. Otherwise, all the ingredients, all

the heavy ingredients will fall to the bottom and burn. Okay? Every once in a while stir,

get everything rising up again; get all those flavours mixing. Okay?

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