hi again. welcome back to www.engvid.com. i'm adam.today's lesson is a very interesting one. it's one of my favourites. why? becausei love to eat. actually, a long time ago, before i was a teacher, before i did any ofthat, i went to culinary school. "culinary" -- i learned how to cook. i was going to be a chef.but then i worked at a restaurant, actually i worked in a few restaurants and idecided: "nope, i don't want to be a chef anymore." but i still like to cook, i still love to eat.so some of my students were asking me for kitchen vocab, someculinary cooking vocab. first, let's start with this question: "what'scookin'?" now, it could mean: "ah, something smells good. what's cookin'?" means what areyou making, what dish are you making? but
sometimes, people will ask this as slang:"what's cookin?" means: "what's happening? how are things? how are you?" just so you know.a good idiom to recognize. so we're looking at kitchen vocab. when we'retalking about cooking, we're talking about culinary arts. okay? so you ever hear thisexpression: "culinary" means about cooking, about food. now, before i getinto these actions, some of these actions that you will use while youare cooking, it's a moral imperative that i spend a minute about these two words. whatdoes "moral imperative" mean? it means that to be a good person, i must tell you somethingabout these words. first: "a chef", a chef is a person who studied cooking, went to schooland studied, has worked in many restaurants,
and has practiced for a long time in his art, hiscooking skills. this person - or her -, this person probably has a diploma and is usually theboss of a kitchen in a restaurant somewhere. now, "a cook" is a person who is just startingto cook or somebody who just makes food at home. anybody can be a cook. so "cook" couldbe a noun, the person, or: "to cook", verb, to prepare dishes. now, very, very, very importantand i must stress this: "cook", the pronunciation of this word is very important. it's: "uh", "uh", "uhk"."cook", okay? "cook". sounds like, it rhymes with: "look" or: "took" or: "book".okay? "book", "took", "look", "cook". it does not, not rhyme with: "rock" or: "sock" or: "lock".okay? not. so if somebody says to you: "oh, i'm a good cock." say: "i'm happy for you.bye-bye." okay? because they're talking
about something else completely. "cook",be very careful about this word. okay, let's get started. let's say you'reon the internet, you want to look for some new dishes, you want to surprise your familywith a nice new meal from a different country maybe. you get on the internet and you find a"recipe", recipe for a nice dish. but, you're not sure about how to make it because youdon't recognize some of these actions. "pot", "pan", all of these things you can understand.my little stove here, and my little oven here, i'm sure you can understand.let's look at the actions. "to saute", now this word actually comes fromthe french, but we use it in english as well. "to saute" means in a skillet or in a pan,to cook lightly. so you have your pan, your
flat pan, put a little bit of oil, put inyour onions on the stove, and you saute, you flip, you cook it a little bit to a littlebit brown, and then you put other things in it or you add it to other things."boil/simmer", these are very similar actions. "boil", you put something in a pot, like somethinglike this and high, full of water. you put the heat very, very high. so boiling is veryhigh heat, big bubbles, and very fast moving. "bluh, bluh, bluh, bluh, bluh." right? likevery boiling, so the bubbles go very fast and very high. "simmer" means lower heat,small bubbles moving slowly. okay? so when you're making a nice soup or a stew, first youget everything boiling, and then you reduce the heat and let it simmer for like an hour;get all the flavours to blend together really
nicely. then you have: "broil/roast".so "broil" and "roast", we're using the oven. if you wantto cook something like very quickly and get the top like very crispy, you broil. "broil"means heat from the top, so the heat is going like this on to the food. "roast" means theheat is coming from the bottom and the sides, so it cooks the inside and takesa little bit longer. okay. "grill". "grill", like for example: when you barbeque.when you're barbequing, you are grilling. you have the lines of the grill,you put your steak on it, then you flip it, etcetera. that's grilling,usually with fire, coals, lines. next: you're preparing your... all your "ingredients".that's another good word. you're preparing
all your ingredients, all thethings that will go into the dish. so you have to "chop" or "dice". now, if you'rea chef, there's a difference between "chop" and "dice". if you're cooking at home, there'sno difference. like quickly cut, you take your knife, your cutting board and: "ch, ch,ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch" into little pieces. the only difference betweenthese two is the size that... of the onion, let's say you're cutting onion intolittle pieces. "chop", "dice". "slice". "slice" means you're getting larger pieces.if you take your onion, you slice, you have a nice round piece of onion and thenyou put it on your hamburger. very delicious. "fry", anything that you do with oil, evensautã©ing is a type of frying because you're
doing it with oil. "deep-fry" means you cover it with oil.regular "fry" means just oil both sides, away you go. "stir", sowhen you're simmering something, don't forget once in a while to give it a stir.otherwise, all the ingredients, all the heavy ingredients will fall to the bottom and burn.okay? every once in a while stir, get everything rising up again; getall those flavours mixing. okay? so there. now, i love to eat. i mean i... i'msure i don't look maybe that big to you, but i do love to eat. please, send me a recommended dish.what is your favourite dish? go to www.engvid.com. first of all, you can practice these words with a quiz.second, tell me: what is your favourite dish? what must i try to say that i have lived?i need to know your dish. okay?
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