Hi! What’s up? I’m Maria. Welcome to our kitchen. In today's video I'm going to show
you vocabulary and verbs related to this context, so... take notes. If you are interested, stay with us.
Well, many of you have asked us to give you a tour around the house, but for different
reasons Cody and I have decided to make a video showing you the house, but only for
the members of our YouTube channel. If you are interested in knowing what all this is about, just click on the join button and there you can get all the information.
This is a gas stove, there are also electric stoves but the most common thing is to find gas stoves here in Colombia. When I lived in the US, all the apartments we stayed in
had electric stoves and electric ovens. here in Colombia the most common, the most frequent
thing is to find gas stoves. This is an oven and it also works on gas. Well, it also uses
electricity. It uses both. And well... this is an extractor hood or you can also know it as an extractor. Many kitchens have it.
Well... you might wonder what the hell is this? Well, this is a grill and we use it to grill our arepas. Here in Colombia we eat arepas a lot. And there are many types of
arepas. My favorites are these arepas de yuca. They are delicious, right, Cody? Yes!
At the top, we have the cabinets. And here we store things. We keep bowls, like this one, or just regular plates. No difference. These are plates and bowls. Simply platos.
In this cabinet we keep the cups, but you know what? this is also called a pocillo. Una taza, un pocillo. Same thing. We also store glasses and wine glasses.
Below we have the drawers, with A... not "cojones" with O, which are different things! Well... in these drawers we keep the cutlery such as the spoon, the fork or the knife.
We also keep other things like these scissors. Scissors. In these drawers we keep the pots like this. This pot has a glass lid. We also have a strainer. We use it to
strain, and further down we have other pots but we also have the pans. This is a frying pan.
It can be a masculine noun or a feminine noun. It depends on the region. Both ways are correct. And this is a very special pot that is actually called a olleta.
In this pot we make hot chocolate but we also use this utensil called the molinillo. We take the chocolate, we put it here with the milk and we use the molinillo to whisk it.
Grandmothers say that chocolate tastes much better if the molinillo is made of wood. Do
you have a molinillo at home? We didn't have one in the US and Cody didn't know it before he met me. Do you have one at home? This is a
sink and here we wash the dishes. Here in Colombia we say "lavamos la loza." Vamos a lavar la loza”. Same as "lavar los platos". Here in the sink we have the soap to wash
the dishes and the hand soap. We have a sponge and a metal sponge. On this side we have a mini pantry
The alacena is where you keep your dry food, like rice, grains, bread, cookies, and so on. And now I'm going to show you what we have over here. This is a kettle. The tetera
to heat water and make coffee or tea. This is the blender, and this is a "juicer". I don't know the word in Spanish but I'm going to find out and put it here on the screen.
In many kitchens we have these absorbent paper towels. Paper towels.
Well, this is our nevera. Remember that in other countries they also say it in another way: refrigerator or... I don't know... other words. Here we say the nevera.
And this is the tour of our kitchen. I hope you liked it and that you have learned new vocabulary. And if you could understand this video more
or less in its entirety remember that we also offer a subscription course called Español en Uso
For intermediate and advanced level students. For more information visit the link in the description. That's it for now. Thank you very much for watching, see you later.
Bye!