Cooking Vocabulary and Our Favourite Food

Verbs of Ways of Cooking

to bake: To dry cook in an oven by using heat. (eg. bake bread, bake a cake, bake potatoes)
to boil: To cook (something in) a liquid at a very high/maximum temperature
to broil (American English): To cook meat or vegetables on a rack/grill at an extremely high temperature by exposure to direct heat.
to grill: To cook by putting the food on a grill; similar to broil.
to barbecue: To cook foods (primarily meat) on a barbecue/grill by using fire or hot coals.
fry: To cook by putting the food into extremely hot oil. – freír
sauté: To quickly fry food by placing it in hot oil in a frying pan.
stir fry: To cook small pieces of food by moving it quickly in hot oil
roast: To cook in the oven or over a fire, usually with oil/butter. (eg. roast beef & roast potatoes)
stew : To cook a heavy mixture slowly for a long time – estofar
scramble: To mix the white and yellow parts of eggs together while cooking them in a pan. Scrambled eggs – huevos revueltos

More common vocabulary of Cooking

raw = uncooked – the opposite of cooked (crudo/a) – ‘Sushi is raw fish’
rare – poco hecho; medium – medio hecho; well-done – muy hecho (for meat) – ‘How would you like your steak, sir?’
underdone/cooked = not cooked enough; overdone/cooked = cooked too much
runny = solid but becoming more liquid
paste = between solid and liquid consistency (eg. pate)
chunks (n.), chunky (adj.) = (with) big bits
peanut butter – mantequilla de maní / crema de cacahuete
bland = without much taste/insipid – soso (NB. false friend, NOT ‘blando’ in Spanish!)
tasty = with plenty of taste (sabor); the opposite of ‘bland’
savoury = all food that is not sweet (eg. meat)
salty = with a lot of salt (eg. tinned anchovies)
sharp = acidic/not sweet
sticky = with a tendency to stick – pegajoso (eg. sticky toffee pudding – Yum yum!) Can a person be sticky (pegajoso)?
yummy (colloquial) = very tasty
to die for (colloquial)/ mouthwatering = extremely tasty (food) (eg. Angeles’ homemade mango chutney is to die for)
mouthwatering – muy apetitoso, que hace la boca agua
stodgy = heavy, dull, unoriginal, filling, high in carbohydrates (eg. stereotypically British food). This type of food is difficult to digest. Examples include Yorkshire pudding, sausage rolls, meat pies, dumplings and stodgy sticky toffee pudding

Craig’s favourite food: Salmon (smoked and grilled), sauté potatoes, steak, lamb
Reza’s favourite food: a bagel with smoked salmon and cream cheese. A good Spanish omelette (with onion – it’s bland without it!), spicy food, (including curry, Mexican dishes and Latin American ají,) traditional Valencian breadsticks (rosquilletas valencianas – they deserve to be much more famous,) Irish potato bread & Toffee.

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