Kitchen Vocabulary: The Food Words Every Learner Needs

⏱ 5 MIN · CEFR A2

Kitchen Vocabulary: The Food Words Every Learner Needs

🍳 From my notebook:

Growing up in Bangladesh, I helped my mother cook rice on a clay stove every evening. We called it chul. In Sydney, the first kitchen I worked in had six different types of pan and names I had never heard: sauté pan, stockpot, ramekin. I spent my first week pointing and hoping no one noticed. Vocabulary saves you from pointing.

🎯 By the end you will:

• Name 8 common kitchen items in English
• Use verbs for cooking methods
• Say a simple recipe instruction

📖 Kitchen nouns and cooking verbs:

Noun	Cooking verb	Example
pan / pot	fry / boil	Fry the onions in a pan.
oven	bake / roast	Bake the bread for 30 minutes.
knife	chop / slice	Chop the vegetables finely.
bowl	mix / stir	Stir the sauce in a bowl.

✅ Quick check: Which verb goes with ‘bread in the oven’?

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✍️ Try it (2 min):

Write three recipe steps for a dish from your country using imperatives: First, ____. Then, ____. Finally, ____.

💡 Teacher’s tip:

Bring in real objects or pictures. Point, drill the word chorally, drill a sentence. Kitchen vocabulary is highly visual — use that.