If you spend a lot of time in the kitchen whether that is fun or because it is your job, it will be very helpful to have a good knowledge of cooking techniques that can be very helpful when it comes to interacting with other people in the kitchen.
Cooking is something we all need to do and if you have English-speaking people, experiencing it can be made much easier by having the right vocabulary for the job.
Cooking recipes or kitchen verbs are actions that often occur when you read cooking instructions in recipes.
Cooking Verbs List for Beginners
| Cooking Verb | Meaning |
| To add | putting the ingredients together |
| To bake | By heating process in an oven |
| To beat | mixing up quickly and continuously with eggs |
| To blanch | Plunging tomatoes, nuts, and more to a boiling water for removing or loosening a skin . |
| To blend | To mix together the food stuff in a electric mixer |
| To boil | heating the water till bubbles appear |
| To break | Making or separating into small parts |
| To broil | Cooking with extreme or high heating temperature |
| To carve | To cut meat into slices. |
| To chop | cutting into small pieces |
| To combine | making a mixture of two or more things together |
| To cook | food preparation on fire |
| To crush | pressing hard to make it in a form of crystal or paste |
| To cut | Chopping to pieces with the help of knife. |
| To grate | Rubbing any solid food on serrated surface |
| To grease | Quoting with butter or oil |
| To grill | barbeque style by putting the food on a grill |
| To melt | heat to make it in liquid form |
| Caramelize | Cook to enhance the brown color and nutty flavor of caramel |
| Char | Most people like the taste of grilled meat |
| Dice | Cut into small cubes |
| Drain | Drain the liquid by letting it flow or drain |
| Fry | Cooking something in hot oil |
| Knead | If you make the dough, stuffing with flour and water to make bread and pizza and so on, you will need to mix it. |
| Marinate | Marinating is the process of immersing food in a mixed spice paste, which is usually acidic before cooking |
| Measure | Level for taking the exact quantity to cook |
| Microwave | Quick cooking oven with heat adjustment |
| Mix | combine more than one ingredient |
| Peel | Removing the skin of vegetable or fruit before cooking. |
| Pinch | A small, undefined amount of the substance, usually powder such as salt, sugar, spices |
| Poach | A method of cooking that involves heating the food soaked in liquid |
| Pour | to transfer from one container to another |
| Saute | A method of cooking using a small amount of oil or oil in a shallow pan |
| Season | Add salt and pepper for extra flavor |
| Simmer | Cooking food with liquid (or cooking the liquid itself) at a temperature slightly below the boiling point |
| Slice | Cut into pieces; divide them into parts |
| Soak | Immerse in water |
| Sprinkle | Dropping of small substances on cooked food |
| Steam | minute water droplets in the air (water vapors) which is formed when water is heated |
| Stir | Mix food or liquid by moving a spoon around it |
| Taste | Try or test the quality of food |
| Whip | fast moving |
| Whisk | It is a cooking pot that can be used to mix ingredients |
Practice kitchen vocabulary to learn what actions we do while we cook. Keep Exploring EnglishBix to learn more words and enhance your vocabulary.
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