Curso de Inglés Lección 13 Pag. 3

Listen to Val speaking about cooking words, and match the verbs to their Spanish equivalents.

to boil
to simmer
to steam
to cut
to chop
to slice
to dice
to heat

to fry
to bake
to grill
to roast

The following transcription has various mistakes. Listen and change the incorrect words. Use the pause button on your media player to give you time to change the text.

Today La Mansión Del Inglés is in France, and we’re here with Val who is South African, but she has studied cookery in Cádiz and now lives in a lovely French townhouse.
Hello Val, welcome to La Mansión Del Inglés.

Hello. Nice to be here.

Val, I’d like to ask you to explain some cooking vocabulary. For example, I know that cut is cortar in Spanish, but how about slice, chop and dice?

Slice is to cut into the same piece, in one sort of movement of whatever you’re cutting. To dice…to chop is to cut into bigger pieces, and to dice is to cut into bigger pieces than that.

Right. Also the verb to heat is 'calentar', but what’s the preference between to simmer, to boil and to steam?

Simmer is to heat ‘till you get to always boiling which is when you have little bubbles…er..maintaining. Boiling is to have the liquid come to a big big bubbles…

Violent bubbles.

…violent bubbles, yes, violent bubbles. And steam i…is with paper. With…with water, you’re steaming…err.. you have a duck and you put it with water and you cook it without it touching the water.

Right, thank you.

Listen to the second conversation and write the missing words in the spaces.

- Another group Val is to..to fry, to grill, to bake and to roast. Er..to fry for example, how would you describe to fry food?
- Normally, frying would be to put in some kind of a or ..th.. the.. the food. Under a , like in a.. in a fry pan.
- So you fry , for example.

- Yes.
- And to grill?
- To grill, would be a high heat or a high heat, whatever you’re… whatever food you’re.. cooking.
- So you’d barbecue for example, that would be grill..to grill.
- Yes, you would grill on a barbecue.
- And to bake and to roast?
- Roasting is used for meat. So, roasting could be roast vegetables, but it’s for meat and it’s in a very hot . Whereas baking is cooking in the with a..a heat all around.
- So you’d bake a cake, for example, or you’d bake..erm..potatoes.
- Yes, you could bake potatoes, you can bake as well, but the heat is not normally as .
- Okay, so that would be the difference between roast chicken and baked chicken.
- Yes, you have a more crispy crust on a roast chicken than a baked one.
- Oh, it sounds !

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