Hello all welcome back to a new lesson, I am Niharika and today I am going to try my
hand at cooking. So how would that really help you? Well do you like to cook well I
do if you see it on my apron I love cooking ,But there are times when we get confused
to understand certain cooking instructions . Now there are words that you don’t know
how exactly to use it or at times when we are reading or taking cooking instructions
we don’t know what it means, so this lesson will help you to understand some cooking instructions
in English. So let’s get started the first one that
we have here is “Bake” now bake means when we put our food in oven and we coke it
on heat such as cakes, casserole or even bread so that is when we say “I am gonna bake
a cake” so it means I am gonna put the food in the oven and cook it on heat, so you bake
cakes or even bread alright.
Another word here for you is barbecue now barbecue means when you grill your food ok
you probably grill your meat or even veggies at times like a you know you put potatoes,
grilles potatoes or grilled chicken or beef steaks, so you put it on grill and you cook
it on fire or hot coals, so you grill your food and that’s what we call it as barbecue.
The third one here is “Beat” beat what does that mean to hit someone, no well beat
when it comes to cooking instructions beat means to mix your food quickly ok you have
to be really fast and continue it you continue doing it, it has to be a continues action
like your egg so you beat your eggs ok so if you are trying to make something which
needs a good mixture of eggs or probably flour what you do is you mix it constantly, so that
is beating ok. Then we have carve , now what is that means
well carve means " To cut meat into slices" ok so carve means to cut your meat into slices
that’s a better word rather than just saying” why don’t you cut your meat” . So the
better word to use is “carve your meat." Another word is chop, now chop you might have
read when you are trying to go online and get a recipe you will always see chopped vegetables
or chopped onions so what exactly it means well chop means to cut your veggies into small
pieces ok so you it just means to cut your vegetables into small pieces.
Then another one here is “Broil” now broil, broil means you cook your food probably meat
or even veggies on extremely high temperatures and in fact you broil it for a very very long
time, so you heat it on an extreme high temperature for a very long time that’s what broil means
ok so the next time you are having a broil chicken or broil chicken soup then you have
to cook it on an extreme high temperature.
Then the another one we have here is shallow fry I when I started learning to cook I used
to really get confused between these two words one is “shallow fry” and another one is
“deep fry” I just didn’t know what exactly it meant well of course both cooking techniques
are oil based but I will tell you what’s the difference , so shallow fry is when you
put your food again it’s an oil based technique but when you put your food a battered food
like battered meat or battered fish or even battered potatoes and you submerge the food
partly , Now you do not just fill up the pan with lots of oil its very less oil and you
submerge your patty or probably your meat or the fish partly and you cook it only till
it gets a little brown so that is too shallow fry , so very little oil is used and you submerge
your food partly ok.
And then what exactly “Deep fry "means so deep fry means when you dip your food completely
into the oil so your pan your cooking pan is full of oil and you submerge the whole
thing into that hot oil so that is deep fry, so hope this is clear shallow fry means very
little oil and you submerge your food partly where as deep fry is when you completely submerge
your food ok
Now the next one is grate grated cheese wow I totally
love it now grate means to shred food items ok to shred probably cheese or even probably
chicken so you shred it with the help of a grater you know you have these graters I wish
I had it with me I could have showed it to you but maybe you can just have a look at
this picture here so grate means to shred food with a shredder ok or with a grater its
either called a shredder or a grater so that’s the meaning .
Now the next one here is “sauté or stir fry” , now sauté or stir fry means you
put your veggies or probably meat ok in a hot pan ok which is where in you add a little
oil also to it and you sauté the veggies or the meat quickly ok and that’s on heat
of course but you do that quickly so that’s called sauté or to stir fry veggies extremely
healthy probably you can sauté or stir fry your veggies every night and that should be
your dinner trust me it’s extremely healthy so that’s what sauté and stir fry means
when you mix it in your frying pan ok with little bit of oil .
Then we have knead now knead so here you are pressing and stretching the dough ok so that
is to knead , now when you press and stretch your dough the dough is used either for making
pasta or its also used for breads, So if you are making bread you need to knead the dough
when in you have to press the dough hard ok and stretch it so that kneading alright.
And then the other one that we have here is scramble have you tried scrambled eggs oh
one of my favourite breakfast now scrambled means when you mix the whites and the yellows
of an egg ok and you mix it nicely so that’s called scrambling ok so you are scrambling
your eggs and then you put it in the plate and eat with the bread so that’s scramble
ok
And then the last one is mince so mince is when you particularly cut your veggies or
meat into extremely small pieces in fact we make use of a machine to mince your met because
it’s not easy for you yes probably grater or a shredder would help you however to mince
it in very very small particles you definitely need a machine so cut your veggies or the
meat into extremely small pieces is what mince means ok so these are some verbs that would
help you to give or to take instructions cooking instructions so the next time your sister
calls in and says hey you cook extremely good chicken could you please help me with the
recipe well of course now you know what are the right words to use.
So I will be back with a new lesson right now I am starving and I am gonna go and cook
some good meal for myself Bye.