![]() You can mix something with your hands, or by putting it in a container and shaking it, or in other ways. In general, ‘stir’ is more specific, because it means to use some kind of implement – like a spoon – to mix whatever you’re mixing. Here, ‘mix’ and ‘stir’ have the same meaning. If you dice a pepper, you first cut it into strips, and then cut the strips into small pieces. More specifically, ‘dice’ means that you cut something in two directions. However, if you chop something finely, you cut it into the smallest pieces possible. Usually, ‘chop’ means to cut something into medium-sized pieces, perhaps not in a precise way. With peppers, you also need to remove the pith – the white flesh on the inside. For example: ‘Quarter the tomato’ and ‘Cut the tomato into four pieces’ have the same meaning. It’s an efficient way to say ‘cut something into two pieces’. Learn more about verbs and nouns in this Oxford Online English lesson on Parts of Speech. You can cut something into slices, or just use slice as a verb: ‘Slice the cucumber’, ‘slice the carrots’, and so on. Many words connected with cooking can be both verbs and nouns. For example: ‘Cut the lemon in half,’ not ‘into half’. There’s one common exception to this pattern you cut something *in* half, not ‘into’. For example, you might hear: ‘Cut the chicken into six pieces’, or ‘Cut the aubergine into small cubes.’ When talking about preparing food, the combination ‘cut…into…’ is common. With other ingredients, you might need to use a knife or a peeler. Some foods are easy to peel, like bananas. ![]() ‘Peel’ means to take the skin off some fruit or vegetables. ![]() For the first portion of preparing, cooking and serving food in English, we will talk about the preparation.
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