welcome to today's lesson the topic for this lesson is top 10 must know verbs

when cooking let's get started to cook to cook I'm going to cook dinner

tonight to cook is to prepare a meal using heat tonight I'm going to cook

chicken marsala I'm going to cook beef stew to fry two fry I don't want to fry

the chicken because it's too unhealthy to fry something is to cook something in

hot fat or oil french fries are fried and fried things are unhealthy so when

you eat fried foods you want to eat in moderation I don't because fried stuff

is delicious but you should to add to add before you eat you should taste the

food and add salt if necessary to add in this context means to add something else

onto a dish to put more of something onto a dish so you might add salt to a

dish or add some paprika to the chicken to cut to cut could you please cut up

that beef to cut is to use a knife to cut food to make it into smaller pieces

usually so you can bite it or so you can mix it more easily I cut my steak so I

can eat it you make food smaller into more bite-sized pieces by cutting to mix

to mix mix all of the spices in a bowl before putting them in your dish to mix

is to combine so you might combine or mix all of your ingredients together

before cooking or doing something else with them you might mix

ingredients together to create a dish to season to season to season is to add

spices to a food to make it taste better usually you season every dish with salt

and pepper to mash to mash four great mashed

potatoes you should add garlic to the potatoes to mash is to crush food so

that it becomes almost paste like so mashed potatoes is a very common example

of this also in the UK you might find mushy peas which are sort of mashed to

saute to saute I sometimes like to saute asparagus instead of boiling it to saute

is to quickly fry something in hot fat to put to put put cold water into the

mixture or you'll get lumps in the stew to put in this context means to add to

something or to move into place I put salt in the stew and I put the dish in

the oven to slice - slice if you want them to cook evenly

you should slice the carrots to be the same size - slice means to cut I sliced

the Apple I sliced the pizza I sliced the cake and that brings us to the end

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