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Kitchen verbs
The verbs every recipe uses, from chopping and grating to simmering and baking.
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choponions, herbs
to cut into small, rough pieces with a knifecutting
slicebread, tomatoes
to cut into thin, flat piecescutting
gratecheese, carrots
to rub food against a tool with small sharp holes, making thin stripscutting
peelpotatoes, bananas
to take the skin off a fruit or vegetablepreparing
seasontaste first
to add salt, pepper or spices to give food more flavourpreparing
spreadbutter on toast
to cover a surface with a thin layer of something softpreparing
drainpasta, through a colander
to pour away the water from cooked foodpreparing
stirsoup, coffee
to move a spoon round and round in a liquid or mixturemixing
whiskegg whites
to beat eggs or cream quickly to add airmixing
boilpasta, eggs
to heat water until it bubbles strongly, or cook food in itheat
simmersoups and sauces on a low heat
to cook gently in liquid that is only just bubblingheat
steamvegetables, dumplings
to cook food in the hot vapour that rises from waterheat
fryeggs, chips
to cook in hot oil or fat in a panheat
bakebread, cakes
to cook in an oven without adding liquidheat
meltbutter, chocolate
to heat something solid until it turns liquidheat