Food/Cooking
Kitchen verbs
Interactive exercises
Kitchen Verbs
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peeling a banana |
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frying an egg |
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cut |
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adding a spoon of sugar |
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breaking an egg |
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whipping cream |
| stirring the dough | 
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| pouring milk | 
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weighing |
2. Can you follow this recipe? (speak: /re-see-pee/ )
a. cut the chicken into pieces.
b. wash and peel the potatoes.
c. put some oil in a pan.
d. cook the chicken and potatoes for 35 minutes.
e. add some cream.
3. Cooking Measurements
England and America are the only countries without the metric system. So recipes are at first a bit difficult to understand:
a. A pinch of salt
b. a teaspoon of sugar
c. a cup of flour (Mehl)
d. a tablespoon of oil
e. a quart of strawberries
Actually, it's quit simple:
1 tablespoon (tbsp) = 3 teaspoons (tsp)
1 cup = 16 tablespoons
4 cups = 1 quart
4 quarts = 1 gallon (gal)
16 ounces (oz) = 1 pound (lb)
Herbs and spices
How do they taste? Put the words in the gaps:
Chili is hot.
Tabasco is hot and spicy.
Sugar is sweet.
Salt is salty.
3. Use the comparative or superlative:
Sugar is sweeter (sweet) than salt.
Chili is hotter (hot) than pepper.
Basil and parsley is healthier (healthy) than cinnamon.
Tabasco is the hottest (hot) of all chilies.
Indians like the meals spicier (spicy) than Germans.
