Hello, everyone.
This is Chris from Learn British English Free.
Here I am.
Today I'm in the kitchen by popular request.
I've been here a couple of times before,
in my previous lessons:
Around the House
and
How to make a cup of tea
but I've had quite a few requests
for helping people with knowing the vocabulary
to do with specific kitchen utensils and objects.
So that's why we're here today
and I hope that this is going to be clear enough for you.
I've got quite a lot of things to show you
and I'll bring them towards the camera as I do.
First off, the camera is by the cooker,
here's the cooker down here,
and these bits here
are called
hobs
so if something's on the hob
they're the bits where the fire comes up -
you can heat saucepans and things like that.
Likewise, another part of the cooker,
this is called the grill pan,
you can see for things like toast and other things,
for grilling things, we use that.
We put it in a section at the top of the cooker.
Now onto kitchen items.
This big thing here,
I know it's probably not clear,
that's called a slow cooker.
It's quite small, someone bought if for me once,
and the point is you can cook things slowly
throughout the day,
so that's quite useful if you're busy
and working all day.
This we call a tea-towel -
it's for drying and cleaning things -
tea-towel.
Some basics to begin with as well:
Knife - regular knife
Fork
Spoons.
We have slightly different names for spoons:
This is a tea spoon
This one is much bigger - it's a table spoon
Tea spoon - think about it - we probably use for tea,
it's smaller.
Table spoon -
for things at the table, like serving dishes.
Here's another spoon - it's a wooden spoon.
We're getting a bit complicated here.
What's this? This is a tin-opener
you use it for opening things like baked beans, maybe,
or other things which come in cans.
Nutcracker - for cracking nuts.
Chop sticks
I have a lot of Chinese friends
and I eat quite a bit of Chinese food
so I have learned to use chop sticks.
Not very common to see British people with chop sticks
in their house, I think.
Vegetable peeler
or potato peeler.
Kitchen knife -
this one's different from the first one -
it's quite a lot sharper -
you can use it for chopping things.
Corkscrew - for opening bottles of wine.
Very important thing for some people.
Spatula - for handling ingredients in certain dishes.
Potato masher - for making mashed potato.
Another very important British item.
Another knife: bread knife
Very long - got a serrated edge
so we use it for cutting bread specifically.
Cheese grater.
(It's all getting quite exciting now, isn't it?)
Chopping board - for chopping ingredients on.
Plates.
Big one - often called a dinner plate specifically.
This one - we call them side plates - it's small.
I don't know if that's a term used widely
but that's what we usually call them in our house.
Lunch box
I take that to work.
Washing up sponge for cleaning the dishes
doing the washing up.
Dish cloth - for cleaning the surfaces.
Washing up liquid - to be used in conjunction
with the washing up sponge.
And the last things, I think:
Saucepan - for heating up various ingredients of course
on the hob - we put it there, on the hob and heat it.
Frying pan - so it's different because this is what
we use to fry things - that goes on the hob as well.
Those are all the items that I wanted to show you today.
I hope that's helpful.
Please leave some comments if you have any feedback
or ideas.
Thank you very much for watching as always,
it's been a pleasure.
I hope that you enjoyed in my kitchen.
And I'll be back soon, probably with a more orthodox lesson.
So I'll see you then.
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Don't worry - I'm not going to cook myself.
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Bye.