hi everyone my name is Bridget and
welcome to today's lesson the topic for this lesson is top 10 must know verbs
when cooking let's get started to cook to cook I'm going to cook dinner
tonight to cook is to prepare a meal using heat tonight I'm going to cook
chicken marsala I'm going to cook beef stew to fry two fry I don't want to fry
the chicken because it's too unhealthy to fry something is to cook something in
hot fat or oil french fries are fried and fried things are unhealthy so when
you eat fried foods you want to eat in moderation I don't because fried stuff
is delicious but you should to add to add before you eat you should taste the
food and add salt if necessary to add in this context means to add something else
onto a dish to put more of something onto a dish so you might add salt to a
dish or add some paprika to the chicken to cut to cut could you please cut up
that beef to cut is to use a knife to cut food to make it into smaller pieces
usually so you can bite it or so you can mix it more easily I cut my steak so I
can eat it you make food smaller into more bite-sized pieces by cutting to mix
to mix mix all of the spices in a bowl before putting them in your dish to mix
is to combine so you might combine or mix all of your ingredients together
before cooking or doing something else with them you might mix
ingredients together to create a dish to season to season to season is to add
spices to a food to make it taste better usually you season every dish with salt
and pepper to mash to mash four great mashed
potatoes you should add garlic to the potatoes to mash is to crush food so
that it becomes almost paste like so mashed potatoes is a very common example
of this also in the UK you might find mushy peas which are sort of mashed to
saute to saute I sometimes like to saute asparagus instead of boiling it to saute
is to quickly fry something in hot fat to put to put put cold water into the
mixture or you'll get lumps in the stew to put in this context means to add to
something or to move into place I put salt in the stew and I put the dish in
the oven to slice - slice if you want them to cook evenly
you should slice the carrots to be the same size - slice means to cut I sliced
the Apple I sliced the pizza I sliced the cake and that brings us to the end
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