Phrasal Verb for the Day. Cooking

   Phrasal Verbs for Cooking.

This week I have decided to do phrasal verbs for cooking and although they are quite specialized they include some cooking verbs and highlight particles. I'll discuss these later.

From the example you should see be able tell what the verbs mean e.g bake bread in a oven. You can assume that bake means to cook something in oven dry and without oil- bread, cakes etc. This will help with understanding words from context

Furthermore, the more you become familiar with phrasal verbs, especially the particles (the preposition or adverb at the end) the more instinctive they become. 

'Off', for example is frequently used in phrasal verbs to signify commencement or completion- start off, finish off. As there are so many phrasal verbs it is more practical to try to develop an instinctive understanding rather than try to remember every word.

P.S.
In case you didn't understand the picture; Gordon Ramsey is a British Chef popular on TV and who has a reputation for using the word fuck. 

By studying the picture you can see how fuck is extremely versatile and can be used as a noun, an adjective, an adverb, or as a verb, although this is rarer (ironically). 

Although for many British people the word 'fuck' represents more than 50% of their vocabulary I don't recommend that you follow their example.  

 

Phrasal Verb	Meaning	Example (Simple Past Tense)
To bake off	To finish baking partly baked food. For example bread.	She baked off the bread in the oven.
To boil away	To cause liquid to evaporate completely by boiling.	She forgot to switch off the cooker and all the water boiled away.
To boil down	To boil a liquid down to a thick sauce.	The sauce was too thin and needed to be boiled down.
To boil over	To cause liquid to overflow whilst boiling.	She forgot to turn down the heat and all the water boiled over the pan.
To chop up	To cut into pieces, usually with several sharp blows.	She chopped the onion up into small cubes.
To cut off	To remove by cutting.	He cut all the fat off.
To cut out	To shape or form by cutting.	He cut several pieces of pastry out.
To cut up	To cut into pieces using a sharp knife.	He cut the pie up into equal slices.
To eat out	To eat away from home, usually in a restaurant.	They ate out twice last week.
To eat up	To eat until everything is finished.	She ate everything up.
To fry up	The act of frying a meal, especially breakfast.	He always fried up a good breakfast in the morning..
To peel off	To remove the skin/rind/outer covering of fruit/vegetables etc.	She peeled the skin off the apples for the fruit salad.
To slice off	To divide or cut something from a larger piece.	He sliced the meat off the bone.

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