There are many ways to cook Chinese food. As a foodie, you must be familiar with frying, frying, steaming, boiling, frying, roasting, roasting and marinating. You have never seen and tasted anything. Take a sip of water and learn cooking English vocabulary with me.

Cooking English vocabulary 1. Cook v. Cooking

The word refers to cooking food in general, not a special cooking method, so it has a wide range of applications.

　What would you like me to cook for dinner?

what do you want me to cook for dinner?

　I? Ll cook them a nice Italian meal.

I want to cook them a delicious Italian meal.

Tip: note that the word cook has the meaning of cooking, but it can also be used as a noun to mean? Chef? Don't confuse it with the cooker with the affix -er. In fact, the suffixes -er and -or not only represent people, but also represent objects that perform actions. Besides people, only kitchen utensils are used to perform the action of cooking.

cooking English vocabulary 2. boil v. boil with boiling water

then put the ingredients in water to boil, which is an essential process for cooking all dishes. This process is called? boil? .

you should boil these potatoes for forty-five minutes.

You should boil these potatoes in hot water for forty-five minutes.

the sauce should not boil or the egg yolk will curl.

The sauce should not be boiled, otherwise the yolk will coagulate.

Cooking English vocabulary 3. Fry v. Fry; Frying; Fry

Fry-fry is the most commonly used method in China cuisine. Careful students may be curious, what if I want to express frying/frying/frying accurately? Don't worry, English word formation is flexible and diverse. Think about the specific steps of these three methods and you will know what to do.

We all use a pan to fry things, so? Fried? We can use pan-fry:

pan-fry the steak and the egg separately.

We can fry steak and eggs separately.

Think about the fried stinky tofu sold on the street, and there is not a small jar filled with a lot of oil in front of you. Tofu goes deep into the hot oil, in the hot oil? Deep? So it can be expressed by deep-fry? Blow up? . Of course, you can also understand deep as? Deep? That is, a long time in oil. No matter what way you use, it is a good way to help you remember.

heat up a pan of oil and put the ingredients to deep-fry till golden.

heat a large pot of oil and fry all the ingredients until golden brown.

when frying rice, we have to stir the spatula constantly, so stir-fry means? Fried? . Do you remember?

add the cauliflower, carrots and mushrooms. stir-fry them for 1 minute.

add cauliflower, carrot slices and mushrooms. Stir fry for one minute.

cooking English vocabulary 4. steam v. steam

besides being used as a verb, the word steam itself has a noun form, which means? Steam? . The food in the steamer is slowly steamed by boiling water vapor.

the best way to cook many vegetables is to steam them for a few minutes.

the best way to cook vegetables is to steam them for a few minutes.

steam is rising from the kettle.

water vapor came out of the kettle.

cooking English vocabulary 5. Smoke v. Smoke

The original meaning of the word smoke refers to smoking. Everybody right? No Smoking? This billboard should be familiar, and you can see it in conference halls, auditoriums and so on. Think about the picture of others smoking, is there tobacco rising from the stars? Burning wood with a small fire to make smoke is actually very similar to smoking. This combination of memory, you can easily remember a word oh! Turning this verb into a past participle can also describe dishes made by smoking:

I like eating smoked duck.

I like eating smoked duck.

cooking English vocabulary 6. Stew v. Stew, stew

I believe this cooking method is often used by everyone. Wash a bowl of pig's trotters, put them in a small pot, put them on the fire and simmer slowly. This process is stew. Similarly, changing this word into the past participle form can also describe the stewed ingredients:

My favorite dish is stewed mushrooms stuffed with white fungus.

My favorite dish is the snow-covered silver bell.

cooking English vocabulary 7. Stuff v. Fill in, brew and accumulate

Careful classmates will find that there are some examples in the above? mushrooms stuffed with? Such an expression, this is actually stuffed in the mushroom? Meaning of. Stuff does? Stuffing? In the context of cooking food, it refers to the dishes that we often eat with one ingredient mixed with another.