WITH A CHEF EVERYTHING CAN BE REAL!/LEARN 70 ANALOGIES TO “COOK”

The techniques or shortcuts that you comprehend in cooking classes will improve taste and food quality in your daily family meals. You don’t have a whole day to prepare these meals due to work or other obligations. You don’t need to take marinading all day on low heat by using a crock pot. Just setting on low, you can leave home in the morning and it helps you finish the meal when you come back home. You help your family not to pay for a cake decorated. You have increased your family merit with a professionally prepared dinner on an important occasion. Attending a cooking class can give you hands on experience to perform different recipes in the cookbooks listed online.

 

In a creative cooking school you can meet men and women sharing your love of cooking or desire to develop fine cooking skills. In a large shared kitchen you can work closer together in enhancing social skills even this place can meet your plan of opening a restaurant. As the person of passion for creative cooking a cooking class by renowned chefs will lead you up to a new career. Some coming to this area for a specific purpose not having to do with a business have ended up in taking up what they have learned and put into a lucrative business. The initial part-time work has turned out their own successful business. A culinary class has possibilities of offering endless benefits because what you have learned will be applied to the dishes created by yourself in the future. You can drive a fine food craze with your cuisine creativity or a hotel, restaurateur or café owner will be out of work without a chef in the kitchen. Food has been becoming a big business and a chef can be forgotten; but people sitting at fovorite restaurants have ever chatted about their celebrity chefs’ food. Food or creativity has made them heros!

 

LEARN 70 ANALOGIES TO “COOK”

 

1. Cook, boil, heat, bake, fry, roast, grill, steam, broil, parch

1. a.      Apply heat in preparing food. May I cook tonight?
2. b.      Apply heat to turn to vapor. Water was heated so that it boiled.
3. c.       Cause to become hot or warm. The stove has no fuel to heat.
4. d.      Apply heat without exposure to the flame. She bakes her own bread and cakes at home.
5. e.       Apply heat in hot fat or oil. He fried turkey to prepare the special dish.
6. f.        Apply heat with direct exposure to flame. Coffe beans have to be roasted for a drink.

 

1. g.      Apply heat with a grated utensil. He finds it hard to grill such a mix of fish and vegetable.
2. h.      Apply heat from boiling water. He steamed vegetables until tender enough for the soup.
3. i.        Apply heat to radiant heat. We can broil steaks over coals,in the skillet or on a wooden plank oven.
4. j.        Apply heat with slight exposure to the flame. Parched corn is the staple of Indian’s diet.

 

2. Swelter, scorch, singe, sear, char

1. a.      Feel like being in an oven. It’s so sweltering that I want to take off all clothes.
2. b.      Apply heat superficially so as to discolor. The hot iron has scorched the collar of this shirt.
3. c.       Apply slight heat to remove hair, bristles, feathers or the carcass of birds. Cow meat can be singed to be eaten with fresh vegetables.
4. d.      Apply sudden but intense heat. Hot steam pipe has seared the mechanic’s hand.
5. e.       Apply slight heat to blacken the surface. A hot dog cooked over an open flame become charred.

 

3. Burn, blaze, smoke, smolder, flame, fire, flare, flicker, flash

1. a.      Apply heat as being consumed as a fuel or causing damage. The boiler burns so much fuel in a short time.
2. b.      Apply heat brightly. The kid is looking at the blazing fire in the furnace in the photo.
3. c.       Apply heat with blackish mixture of gases and carbon particles. Anything that people smoke is so dangerous.
4. d.      Apply heat without a flame. Smoldering fire is kept to maintain medium heat for the brick furnace.
5. e.       Apply heat to cause combustion. Charcoal is flaming in an outburst of blaze.
6. f.        Apply heat in giving off light. When you flames a match, it is being firing.
7. g.      Apply bright but brief heat. The match flares and lights the cigarette.
8. h.      Apply unsteady and wavering heat. A weaker flickering candle is seen at the corner.
9. i.        Apply very quick and intense heat. The beacon flashes several times as signal to a warning.

 

4. Sparkle, glitter, glisten, glint, twinkle, shimmer

1. a.      Reflect flashes of light. I can feel the night silent and see the stars sparkle in the sky.
2. b.      Reflect with small flashes of light. It’s wonderl to witness her eyes glittered with tears.
3. c.       Reflect with small flashes of light from small surfaces. Drops of sweat trickled down on his face and glistened in his beard.
4. d.      Reflect flashes of light at an angle. Her glasses glinted in the sunlight.
5. e.       Reflect with intermittent light. The stars twinkled in the horizon because gases blocked them momentarily to give this impression.
6. f.        Reflect with faint light. Water in the pond shimmered in night sky.

 

5. Slice, sliver, cut, carve, pare, peel, prune, prick, spike, spear

1. a.      Cut from a large piece. She sliced the onion into rings for a frying pan.
2. b.      Cut into a lengthwise and sharp piece. The kids slivered a stick of bamboo to make frame beams for a lantern.
3. c.       Separate with a sharp-edged instrument. We cut cloth with scissors.
4. d.      Cut into the surface.  He carved a pork roast before chopping.
5. e.       Cut in removing the outer layer. Pare off the sugarcane to chop it into stakes.
6. f.        Cut in removing outer skin. She can peel an orange with her sharp nails.
7. g.      Cut for a better shape. She pruned off the superfluous to make the cake look nicer.
8. h.      Cut a small hole with a sharp utensil. She pricked potatatoes with a fork
9. i.        Impale with a sharp point. She spiked oysters to take the meat.
10. j.        Strike with a long pointed object. She speared her last french fry with her fork.

 

6. Shear, trim, shave, clip, snip, nick

1. a.      Clip the fleece with a sharp instrument. You can shear sheep with scissors.
2. b.      Clip to put in good order. He trims the hedge once a month.
3. c.       Cut the surface with a razor. They shave a meadow with huge excavators.
4. d.      Cut to make shorter. She clipped the steak in a lengthwise way.
5. e.       Cut in a series of strokes. The barber snipped his hair before coming to finish.
6. f.        Cut into indentation. He nicked the acne before scraping it.

 

7. Mince, shred, hash, grind, chop, hack, ax, sever

1. a.      Cut into very small pieces. She minced beef with onion to make a hamburger.
2. b.      Cut into long narrow strips. She shredded chickens and mixed with vinegar to make a special dish.
3. c.       Cut a mess of something. She hashed meat, potatoes and carrots to cook a gravy.
4. d.      Crush by rubbing between two hard surfaces. She grinds wheat into flour to make cakes.
5. e.       Cut with a series of blows. She chopped up a chicken to put into various plates.
6. f.        Cut with irregular and unskillful blows. The butcher hacked down bone saplings of a huge pig.
7. g.      Cut with a bladed head instrument. The boy haxed down the old table for wood.
8. h.      Cut into parts forcibly. She severed the wing from the chicken for a soup.

 

8. Hew, lop, slash, rip, slit, gash, cleave

1. a.      Cut for a shape with a cutting instrument. He has hewed a statue from a huge cedar trunk.
2. b.      Cut off twigs, branches or limbs. He lopped the dead branches of the green vines.
3. c.       Cut with a sweeping stroke. They have slashed a path through the underbrush.
4. d.      Cut to open quickly and violently. She ripped the chicken breast to thrust in a mess of spices.
5. e.       Cut along a line. She slit a nice line on the papaya crust to make a flower.
6. f.        Cut a deep narrow line. They gashed a hole through a pumkin for a prune.
7. g.      Cut along a natural line of separation. Durian can be cleaved to open it easily.

 

9. Scratch, notch, dice, rend, lacerate, crush, smash, butcher, gouge, puncture, rupture

1. a.      Mark with something sharp. The thorns on the tree have scratched her arm.
2. b.      Cut a line on surface or edge. She notched a bamboo stick to prepare the barbecued meat.
3. c.       Cut into small cubes. She diced this meat nicely to make a tomato dish.
4. d.      Separate into parts. She rend beef into small parts by hand.
5. e.       Cut in jagged manner. The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
6. f.        Squeeze into small parts. The falling rock crushed the car.
7. g.      Break into pieces. She smashed the eggs for the omellete.
8. h.      Cut up for meat. The man selling meat has to butcher pigs every day.
9. i.        Cut a hole violently. The soup was gouged up by the spoon.
10. j.        Make a hole by piercing. They use an awl to puncture leather.

10. Stew, poach, simmer, braise, sous vide, cook-chill, cook-freeze, lazer-cook, sautee

1. 1. a.      Cook slowly in liquid. She has a new way to stew rhubard.
   2. b.      Cook in a boiling liquid. It took her ten minutes to poach fish in wine.
   3. c.       Cook in liquid below boiling point. Simmering is used to make starchy items or pastas.
   4. d.      Cook in little liquid in a closed container. The fish was first seared then braised in a covered pot.
   5. e.       Cook in airtight plastic bag called vacuum-sealing, in a temperature-controlled steam environment for a long time. Sous vide cooking has been jumping out of the professional to home kitchen.
   6. f.        Cook by rapid chilling and storage at controlled temperature (3oC). Cook-chill can ensure food not vulnerable to harmful bacteria.
   7. g.      Cook by rapid chilling and storage at controlled temperature (-20oC). Cook-freeze can preserve food up to eight weeks.
   8. h.      Cook by use of a lazer cutter to cook ingredients according to shape and composition. Lazer cooking is the novel technology allowing new tastes, textures, decorations and identifiers to the food.
   9. i.        Fry quickly in a hot fat. She usually sautees onions and garlic in olive oil.