Free English Class! Topic: Kitchen Action Verbs! 🍳🔪🥘 (Lesson Only)

Well hello and welcome to this English lesson about kitchen

action verbs. Now I did do an English lesson about the

kitchen a while ago it was a popular lesson. Uh in this

lesson though I'll look at specifically the verbs we use

to talk about the things you do in the kitchen. Now if you're

someone who doesn't cook or bake you should still watch

this lesson. I will be using a lot of very common English

verbs. A lot of common English words that we use when we're

talking about things we do in the kitchen. This isn't just a

lesson for cooks and bakers and people who love preparing food.

This is a lesson for everyone who who has ever gone to the

kitchen to get a snack. Uh who has ever looked in the fridge

for something to eat late at night. So once again welcome to

this English lesson about kitchen action verbs. I think

you'll enjoy it. Slice. So when you slice something you need a

knife and you use the knife to make relatively equal size

pieces. So this person is slicing a watermelon. They

decided they needed a knife because they were going to

slice a watermelon. They would use it to make those things

which are called slices by the way. So you could eat a slice

of watermelon. The most common use of this verb is probably

when you talk about bread. You buy bread and then you slice

bread with a knife. And then the piece that comes off is

called a slice. So another one of those English words that

works as a verb to slice and as a noun. Um that was last week's

lesson. Not all of these work this way. Dice. So when you

dice something it's usually a vegetable. And when you dice it

if you look closely the person is making tiny little cubes out

of it. Or I was going to say squares but they're technically

they are cubes. So when you dice it's usually something

like carrots. It might be something like celery. You're

trying to make really small uniform size pieces or cubes.

Um usually you dice carrots before you put them into

boiling water to make soup. Um but yes often you will dice

something. Sometimes we dice our potatoes into really small

cubes before we put them into soup or something like that.

And then there's just the general verb cut. When you cut

something you get a knife and you put it you make it into

smaller pieces. There's no other real way to describe it.

Again cut is the general term for anything you do with a

knife. So slice and dice and I'll talk about chop in a

minute are all a little more specific. But you can use the

word cut for almost anything you do with food with a knife.

You're going to cut up some vegetables. You're going to cut

up some fruit. Notice I put a there I'm turning it to a

phrasal verb you're going to phrasal verb but cut is just

yeah the generic or most used version of it and then we have

chop so when you chop something it just means to cut it into

pieces and it's not like slice where when you slice you get a

slice or dice when you dice you get cubes when you chop you're

just cutting it up into smaller pieces so you can chop some

carrots you can up some celery. I think we do often add the

word up to it. I'm going to chop up some carrots, chop up

some celery and start to make soup. If you make pancakes or

anything else in a frying pan at some point you will need to

flip the pancake. You cook one side and when that side is done

when it has turned brown a little bit you flip what's in

the frying pan or on the griddle. These are pancakes a

fairly common breakfast food. I shouldn't say that. It's more

like a weekend breakfast food. Oh let's make pancakes. But you

need a spatula with what I also call an egg flipper. But the

real word is spatula and you would use the spatula to flip

whatever you have. If you fry an egg at some point you need

to flip the egg so the other side will cook as well. And

then if you have ever made bread part of the bread making

process is that you need to need the dough. I just used two

different English words there. You need N E E D like you have

to. Need the dough. So this is when you work the dough with

your hands. In order to kind of stretch out the flour in the

dough. It's important to knead the dough because it creates a

better bread at the end. So if you've ever made bread or any

kind of pizza dough or cinnamon rolls at a certain point you

need to knead the dough. There I am using both words again. Um

Definitely when you are making bread you would need the dough.

And if you've ever eaten cheese you probably have used a grater

to grate the cheese. So the tool is called a grater a

cheese grater and you use it to grate the cheese. That's to you

run the cheese over the grater and it makes little tiny pieces

of cheese. You can see them falling out the bottom. It's

very common when we make pizza we will grate the cheese and

then we'll put grated cheese on the pizza. Notice I'm using the

verb great and I'm using it to describe the cheese as well as

the tool. So you grate the cheese with a grater and then

you put the grated cheese on the pizza. Uh and it does

soften to a D sound. Did you hear that grated cheese? Grated

cheese. It's a little bit of a T sound. As well as a D sound.

If you have ever eaten potatoes or carrots or a banana one of

the things you will need to do is you will need to peel it. So

you get a potato peeler or a knife and you use it to peel

your potatoes. Um the skin of the potato is not yummy. In

fact I don't really like potato skins. Some places people do

eat the skin. If you have a baked potato often the skin

will still be on it. But sometimes the potato peel or

the skin. We use both words by the way. I think we call it a

potato peel before it's cooked. But if you cook it it's a

potato skin. Interesting. Um but yes you need to peel

things. Um sometimes the outer part of a vegetable is not as

yummy and so you peel it and you eat the inside. And of

course the basic verb wash. Sometimes you need to wash

things before you eat them. Especially fresh vegetables. If

you're going to eat something that's fresh or uncooked. You

will often wash it before you eat it. We wash our lettuce. We

wash our celery. We even wash our carrots before we eat them.

It's just sometimes a good idea. There might be a little

bit of dirt on the vegetable. We definitely wash our

mushrooms. I don't have a picture of a mushroom.

Mushrooms will often have some dirt on them. So it's always a

good idea to wash them. And you know rinse is very similar to

wash. When you rinse something though you definitely are not

using soap. When you wash vegetables you don't use soap

either. But the word wash in English can mean that you're

using just water or water and soap. In this case it's just

water. But if you use the word rinse it means just water. If I

rinse something off if I rinse the tomatoes I'm not using any

kind of soap. I'm just using water to make them cleaner to

maybe remove a little bit of dirt or other things that are

on it. Now here we've jumped all the way to the end of

making a meal and we now have to scrub something. So scrub is

when you wash something but you use a sponge or a brush and it

has an element of being difficult. Like you really have

to push hard when you scrub something. When you have a

brand new frying pan it when you clean it or wash it.

Everything it just goes really but when you have an old pan

sometimes you have to scrub it to get it clean. When you scrub

something you use a brush or a sponge to vigorously wash it.

And then of course we have cook. Let me go over these for

a sec. We have cook. We have bake. We have fry and we have

boil. And I will go back to those. When you cook something

this is just the general word for making food. Usually also

when you're using a stove or oven. Like I'm going to

something I'm going to cook some supper tonight. Um what

are you having for lunch? Just sandwiches or are you going to

cook something? When you bake something though it usually

goes in the oven. You bake bread. You bake a pie. Um not

meat though. Generally when you put meat in the oven you are

roasting it. Or we might even say just cooking it. I'm

going to cook a chicken. But when you make a pie or cookies

or bread and you put it in the oven we use the verb to bake.

And then fry is when you use a frying pan which is a shallow

pan. So you fry an egg you can fry bacon. You can fry some

sausages. Whatever you use a frying pan we use fry. And then

boil is simply to bring water to a high temperature so that

it starts to bubble. It starts to boil. So when you have water

boiling there are little bubbles coming out of it. When

you have something like soup or stew where it's it's on the

stove and there's just little bubbles coming out you've just

brought it to a boil and when you let it sit at that

temperature for a while we say that you are simmering the

soup. So often it will say bring the water to a boil add

all the ingredients and then let simmer for 25 minutes or

let simmer for 30 minutes. Simmer is just boiling very

very gently for a period of time. And you you will often

simmer things like soup. Like I can see this big pan at the far

end. He's probably decided to let the soup simmer for a

while. So just a light light boil. Some of you might steam

your food. Jen and I have a device called a steamer. And we

will often use our food steamer to steam broccoli. We'll steam

different kinds of vegetables with it. Sometimes we'll use it

to steam rice. Sometimes we'll use it to steam corn like in

this picture. But it basically the bottom has water in it. And

the water boils and then steam goes through the food. It's a

yummy and easy way to cook food. I I think this is an

interesting one. So listen closely. You use a toaster to

make toast. When you have bread and you want toast. You need to

toast the bread. So there's the verb. So in the kitchen I will

often grab two slices of bread and then I will toast them. I

will put them in the toaster. Push the toaster down. When it

pops up I will have toast. So the action of converting bread

into toast is the verb to toast. I'm going to toast bread

later today and I'll probably have an egg sandwich. Now with

this one you might think to yourself Bob this is a lesson

about verbs. Why do you have the word microwave with the

picture of a microwave? Well this is also a verb. In English

you can microwave your food. You can say I'm going to

microwave this slice of pizza because it's cold. I'm going to

microwave this plate of food. Sometimes when I I'm home from

work. It's late. And Jen and the kids have already eaten.

And then I will microwave the plate of food that Jen has made

for me. I will put it in the microwave and go beep beep beep

beep. There's your sound effects for today and hit

start. So microwave can be used to talk about the thing as well

as it is it is also a verb. You can microwave something. So a

very simple verb mix. Sometimes you need to mix the

ingredients. If I was to make cookies or muffins or pancakes

I would put the ingredients in a bowl and then I would mix

them. You might need to mix by hand. This person is mixing by

hand. But you can also mix using an appliance called a

mixer. Which has two beaters that spin really fast and it

goes so when you put ingredients together in a bowl.

Sometimes you Need to mix them. And the difference between mix

and stir. Stir is usually something you do quickly

sometimes while you're cooking. So they're kind of

interchangeable but here's some good examples. If I was making

something I would mix the ingredients together. If I was

frying something I would stir this things in the pan. Another

good example when I put sugar in my coffee I stir my coffee.

So there is a slight difference between the two. They do

slightly different usages but both of them mean to combine

ingredients together. Add. So I added this one. I just used the

verb add to talk about add. I added this one because it is a

common instruction on a recipe. It will say add all the dry

ingredients together. Or add one cup of water and stir. Add

one cup of milk and mix together thoroughly. So add

simply means to take something that's not in the mix that's

not in the bowl and add it in. Put it in.

To blend. So you can blend things together as well.

Generally we use this word when we're talking about this

appliance. This is a blender. That's when you put a whole

bunch of things together and then you push a button and it

goes and it uses sharp blades in the bottom that spin really

really quickly to make it all uniform. If you like drinking

smoothies that's when you put some some frozen veg or frozen

fruit together with maybe some yogurt and a little bit of

water or ice and then you blend it together and it makes a

really really nice cold drink. Scramble. When you eat eggs

sometimes you will scramble them. We generally only use

this verb to talk about eggs. You put eggs in a pan and you

keep stirring them as you are frying them. And we actually

say you are scrambling the eggs. I'm going to scramble

some eggs this morning. Does anyone want some? What kind of

egg do you want? I'll have a scrambled egg. Okay I will

scramble some eggs in the pan for us and I will fry them. So

notice I'm using scramble and fry together. And strain. When

you strain something it means that there's probably a liquid

that has some bigger pieces in it. And you don't want the

bigger pieces. So you pour the liquid through a strainer so

that you can strain it. Um I'm trying to think when we make

chicken broth we pour the chicken broth through a

strainer. Because we only want the liquid part of it. So when

you make broth or chicken stock you cook all of chicken that's

left over in a big pan for a number of hours and then you

will strain it because you just want the liquid part of it. So

again the device they're using here is called a strainer and

they are pouring it through because they want to strain the

liquid. To drain. So this is similar to strain. Um by the

way this is called a colander. And I think when you drain

something it usually means you're cooking it in water and

you want to get rid of the water. So when I'm done boiling

potatoes I will drain it using a colander. If I'm cooking

pasta I will drain the pasta. I want to only have the food and

not the water. So I will drain it. If you ever have had a cup

of tea you know that someone had to pour that cup of tea.

Anytime you have a liquid well you can pour well let's keep it

liquid. Have a liquid like milk or tea or coffee and if you

want to put it in a cup or mug you will pour it. So you will

take the big thing and you will do this and then you will pour

it out. This is the slide that made me make the poll last

night. I don't know if you saw the poll on my channel. I was

curious to see what hot drinks you guys like the best. Coffee

one by the way I think by a long shot. To beat. So

interestingly enough this is also a word to use when people

fight. Like someone can beat someone up. But it's also a

word we use in the kitchen. When you put egg whites in a

bowl you might beat them. That means to mix them very very

rapidly. Okay. Um we do this usually with eggs. But you beat

them. Uh you can do it with a fork. You can do it with what's

called a mixer. But when you beat something it means to Mix

them rapidly. If you beat egg whites eventually you get this

really really nice texture which with when you cook we

call meringue. Very yummy. Before you bake something

sometimes you will grease the pan. When you grease a pan it

means you put butter or some other type of oil or grease or

lard in the pan. You might grease the pan with butter. You

might grease the pan with margarine. You might spray the

pan with cooking spray. So this a similar thing to do. But

often a recipe will say grease the pan and then you pour the

mixture into the pan before you bake it. This is so that the

food doesn't stick to the pan. Okay you don't want the cake to

stick to the pan. You don't want what you're making to

stick to the pan. So you grease it so it's slippery. And then

it will come out of the pan easier. When you're frying

something you will often spray the pan cooking spray. So the

thing this person is holding is called cooking spray. You spray

the pan for the same reason that you would grease a pan.

You don't want whatever you're making to stick to the pan. If

you use an old frying pan. And you put an egg in that frying

pan. It will stick to the pan. You won't you won't be able to

get the egg out. So you spray the pan so that it's slippery

inside I guess. So that's food doesn't stick to it. Now of

whenever you make something in the kitchen you need to measure

your ingredients so you'll have little measuring spoons on the

far side or measuring cups I wish I could point better the

big things are measuring cups. The small things are measuring

spoons and you will measure things out. In Canada our

recipes call for things like half a half a teaspoon of salt.

Two teaspoons of sugar. One cup of flour. Half a cup of brown

sugar. So when you make something you follow a recipe

and you need to measure your ingredients. So we do use it as

a verb. You need to measure your ingredients. If you put

something like sugar in water it will dissolve. So if you

have a cup of water and you put sugar in and you stir it

eventually you can't see the sugar it disappears. But not

really. It's simply in the water and you can't see it. So

when it says dissolve a teaspoon of sugar in a cup of

water it means to add it to water and stir until it looks

like it has disappeared. Crush. So this person has decided to

crush some garlic. Whenever you crush something it's similar to

squishing it. So when you have garlic sometimes you will slice

the garlic. But sometimes you'll just crush the garlic

under the flat side of a knife. Uh and then you'll remove the

skin and put the crushed garlic in. Sometimes you will crush

ice before you put it into a drink. There are there aren't

actually very many things you crush but if you crush

something this is what the action looks like. And then

whisk. So when you whisk something you use a whisk so

that kitchen tool is called a whisk and you go like this with

your hands. So sometimes you will whisk ingredients

together. When you whisk it adds a little bit of air I

think as you're doing it. It's simply just another way to mix

something. You will whisk it. And sometimes you need to weigh

things. Jen and I don't cook this way. We generally measure

things. We use cups and teaspoons and tablespoons. But

some people weigh their ingredients because this is

more accurate. So you might weigh the amount of flour or

you might weigh the amount of sugar. Um when you are making

something. And then we have spread when you spread

something like butter. So when you have a knife and you put

some butter on it you will spread it over your slice of

bread or over your slice of toast. Um so that people yeah

it is to have fresh bread and spread some butter on it and

then the butter melts and then a little bit of jam. It's one

of my favorite things to eat. Oh and then preheat. I forgot

about this slide. Whenever you make something sometimes you

need to preheat the oven. You don't make something stick it

in the oven and then turn the oven on. When you look at the

recipe one of the first things it will say is preheat the oven

to 200 degrees Celsius or preheat the oven to 450 degrees

Fahrenheit. Depending on where you are in the world. When you

preheat it means you turn the oven on so that the oven is at

the right temperature when you are ready to bake or cook your

food. So you will Preheat the oven.