Kitchen Utensils - English Vocabulary with Jennifer

Hi everyone. I'm Jennifer from English with Jennifer. Imagine you're in

a friend's kitchen. You've been preparing a meal together.

You made some soup, and now it's time to serve it. What do

you need? How about this? Do you know what it's called?

If you don't, you can say, "That big spoon we use to serve soup."

"That thing" or "that whatchamacallit we use to serve

soup." But wouldn't it be nice to know the actual name?

It's a ladle. Let's go over the names of other kitchen utensils. Okay?

You're making a cake, and now it's time to pour the batter

into the pan. You need to scrape the bowl with...

a spatula.

And if you want to flip a pancake or turn a piece of fish over,

you also need a spatula, but a different kind.

It may look like this, or maybe it's made of metal,

like this one. Spatula.

If you're making pancakes, first, you need to mix the batter.

What can you use? A wooden spoon or...

a whisk. "Whisk" is both a noun and a verb. This is a whisk, and you can whisk the

eggs, for example.

If you want to open a can, what do you need?

Well, I have two choices.

I can use this. It's a can opener. But so is this.

A can opener can be manual or electric.

Do you ever use shredded cheese? Those long pieces of cheese.

If you need to shred some cheese, you need this.

A grater. You can use this for cheese or

vegetables.

There's something similar to this.

Do you recognize it? What do we call the small pieces of an

orange peel or a lemon peel? Zest. And how do you get the zest of an

orange or a lemon? With a zester. This is a zester.

Do you like mashed potatoes? I love them. You can't mash potatoes without

something like this.

A potato masher or simply masher. I guess you can mash other things like

beans with this. "Masher" is the noun. "Mash" is the verb.

"Mashed" is the adjective. I mash the potatoes with the masher to make

mashed potatoes.

Do you eat seafood? How about shellfish? Do you ever buy nuts that haven't been

shelled yet? Certain foods we need to crack open. How

do we do that safely? Well, let's see what I have.

Oh, I have this. A cracker. So, we can crack a crab leg

with this, or you might use

a wooden mallet, like a little hammer. Mallet. A wooden mallet.

Which would you use to crack a crab leg?

Do you have something like this in your kitchen?

It's a meat thermometer. If you're a vegetarian, you might not have much need

for this, but I use this when I roast turkey,

for example. I can't imagine Thanksgiving without a turkey.

So, a meat thermometer helps us tell when the meat is

done. And if i'm making turkey, I definitely have use of this.

And perhaps this.

This is a baster, and this is a basting brush.

We use these things to baste the turkey. "Baste" means spread the juices over

something. I can baste the turkey with a baster or

a basting brush.

Okay. I just want to show you two more utensils.

Let's talk about dessert. You want to roll out cookie dough

or roll out a pie crust. What do you need?

A rolling pin. This one belonged to my grandmother.

All right. You rolled out the crust. You baked your pie.

If you put ice cream on top, you have pie a la mode.

That's what we call it. A la mode = with ice cream.

Well, you might need this.

An ice cream scoop to scoop the ice cream.

"Scoop" is a verb and a noun. We can scoop the ice cream

with an ice cream scoop. "Scoop" can be this utensil.

Ice cream scoop. Or it could be the ball that we form

with this utensil. You can put a scoop of ice cream in a bowl...

or a scoop of ice cream on a cone.

Let's review: ladle, spatula,

wooden spoon and whisk

can opener,

grater and zester

masher,

crab cracker and wooden mallet,

baster, basting brush,

meat thermometer,

rolling pin,

ice cream scoop.

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