The English words for baking include bake and roast.

The chef bakes bread

Extension: usage of bake

Bake can be used as a verb

The basic meaning of bake is "to bake", referring to Bake food indirectly in a closed container or pot to remove moisture, dry it and harden into lumps. It also refers to slowly baking or drying bricks or pottery on a fire or in the sun. Used metaphorically, it can mean "extremely hot."

When bake is used as a transitive verb, it takes a noun or pronoun as the object, or it can take a double object. Its indirect object can be converted into the object of the preposition for. Bake can also be followed by an adjective to serve as the compound object of the complement. bake can be used on passive structures.

When bake is used as an intransitive verb to mean "to bake", the active form has a passive meaning, and the subject is usually the thing being baked.