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.
Blonde Bimbo jokes
How does a Blonde Bimbo make a chocolate cake?
First she peels a pound of Smarties.
The assistant asked the blonde if she would like her pizza cut into six pieces or twelve.
"Six please" she said, "I could never eat twelve!"
Why do blondes have little holes all over their faces?
From eating with forks.
Why can't blondes make ice cubes?
They always forget the recipe.
Why don't blondes double recipes?
The oven doesn't go to 700 degrees.
Why don't blondes like making KOOL-AID?
Because they can't fit eight cups of water in the little packet.
Why did the blonde bake a chicken for three and a half days?
It said cook it for half an hour per pound, and she weighed 125.
What does a blonde make best for dinner?
Reservations.
Why do blondes have see-through lunch box lids?
So they know if it is morning or afternoon.
What did the blonde say when he opened the box of Cheerios?
"Oh, look! Doughnut seeds!"
