Food and cooking
Ways to Cook
Fourteen verbs for getting food from raw to ready.
- Teens and up
- Medium · B1
- 14 words
The words
Every word in this set, with what it means. Tap a word to hear it.
- bake
- to cook food in an oven
- boil
- to heat a liquid until it bubbles and steams
- melt
- to turn from solid to liquid when heated
- burn
- to be on fire, or to damage something with fire
- barbecue
- to cook food outdoors over hot coals
- toast
- bread browned on both sides by heat
- heat
- to make something warmer
- fry
- to cook in hot fat
- roast
- to cook food in an oven with dry heat
- slice
- to cut into thin flat pieces
- dip
- to put something briefly into a liquid
- steam
- the hot mist that rises from boiling water
- grill
- to cook food under or over direct heat
- chop
- to cut something into pieces with quick blows