Here's a cooking dictionary, some of the basic directions for recipes.

Bake: Cook in the oven.

Beat: Mix very fast with a spoon or an electric mixer.

Blend: Mix two or more ingredients together until smooth.

Boil: Cook a liquid until it gets so hot that it bubbles.

Broil: Cook under heat, usually under the broiler in the oven.

Chop: Cut in pieces with a sharp knife.

Drain: Pour off liquid.

Drizzle: Make something wet by sprinkling
small drops over it.

Fold: Gently turn one part of a mixture over the other.

Grate: To rub food, like a block of cheese or a potato, up and down back and forth against a grater.

Grease: Spread bottom and sides of pan with butter.

Grill: Cook on a rack over coal.

Mash: Soften and break apart with a fork.

Melt: Heat a solid until it becomes a liquid.

Mince: Chop into many pieces.

Preheat: Turn oven on to the required temperature before it's time to bake.

Roll out: Place on board and spread thin with rolling pin.

Sprinkle: Scatter over food.

Toss: Mix lightly with an upward motion.

Whisk: Beat fast with a wire whisk to make light.

all of that is good to know because in a lot of recipe books they don't tell you what those words are so this is very helpful thanks.

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Nice cooking dictationary.
This should be pinned.

I learned all of that in Family&Consumer Science last year.. but I already knew it because I cook all the time.

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I knew all of them.
Thanks food channel.

haha yup Foodtv all the way!

I like Toss: Mix lightly with an upward motion. hehe

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useful =)