batter
/ˈbætɝ/
nouna mixture consisting of flour, milk, and eggs, used for making pancakes, or for covering food before frying
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1. Batters reach base on error about 1% of the time.
2. Spreading batter evenly.
3. Loose pancake batter
4. Both time and weather batter the house.
5. Divide the cake batter evenly into the six small mixing bowls.
to blend
/ˈbɫɛnd/
verbto combine different substances together
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1. Scientists basically blend up a bunch of these hydra.
2. Blend those Cheetos.
3. This game blends grand strategy, turn-based empire management, and spectacular real-time battles.
4. Blend frozen banana, coconut milk, spirulina, cucumber, and spinach together.
5. Blend that shake!
to carve
/ˈkɑɹv/
verbto cut a piece of cooked meat into smaller pieces
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1. These immense ice sheets carved out a series of basins.
2. Carve some walrus tusk?
3. Computer program tools carve different shapes out of the steel.
4. And glaciers still carve the windswept terrain.
5. Windblown sands and dust carve the stone into eerie goblin silhouettes.
to deep-fry
/dˈiːpfɹˈaɪ/
verbto cook food by holding it under oil
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1. Where everything is deep-fried.
2. At what point are we deep-frying this mayonnaise?
3. Is it deep-frying water?
4. The slices are tossed in the flour and deep-fried.
5. That means, most recipes feature liver deep-fried in oil.
to defrost
/dɪˈfɹɔst/
verbto make frozen food free of ice by heating it; to become free of ice by being heated
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1. - So defrost is about 30% power.
2. My squid is defrosted.
3. This feature will defrost the back windows.
4. Defrosting that sauce.
5. "We had to defrost a koala."
to digest
/ˈdaɪdʒɛst/, /daɪˈdʒɛst/
verbto break down food in the body and to absorb its nutrients and necessary substances
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1. They use enzymes to digest their food, and what they leave behind are byproducts of that process.
2. Dogs can absolutely digest grains.
3. These parasites don’t digest their own food.
4. Digest that for a second.
5. Some cells digest collagen.
to mash
/ˈmæʃ/
verbto crush food into a soft mass
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1. Mythical Beasts, many things have been mashed.
2. - Mash that foot down?
3. see the mash.
4. - Mashed, with gravy?
5. - Mashed with a slight amount of cheese.
to reheat
/ɹɪhˈiːt/
verbto heat cooked food again
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1. Probably to reheat pizza.
2. Probably to reheat pizza.
3. I reheat my coffee a bit too much.
4. Don't reheat noodles.
5. - It reheats well.
to grate
/ˈɡɹeɪt/
verbto use a grater to cut food into small pieces
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1. - Grate the lemon.
2. Grate the cheese inside.
3. Instructions First, finely grate the raw potato pulp.
4. Grate the rind of two oranges on a fine grater.
5. Grate yourself a nice big mound of Gruyere.
to grind
/ˈɡɹaɪnd/
verbto break something into powder or very small pieces by using a special device or putting it between two hard surfaces
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1. Our wheels grind the crack allure of '66.
2. This oughta grind Kevin’s gears.
3. - We both grind our teeth.
4. Grind a tablespoon of whole cloves.
5. Maybe grind the umami ingredients into the beef.
to simmer
/ˈsɪmɝ/
verbto cook something by keeping it near boiling point; to be cooked using this method
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1. My rage has simmered over the years.
2. Simmer until gelatin has dissolved.
3. My curry is simmering away.
4. Chef Kubo's tonkatsu ramen broth simmers for 60 hours.
5. Simmering. -
to steam
/ˈstim/
verbto cook or be cooked using the steam of boiling water
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1. Then the train steamed away.
2. People steam unripe green bananas over boiling water.
3. Steam transmits the heat a lot faster than just dry air.
4. But this device steams your music.
5. Steam milk. -
to stew
/ˈstu/
verbto cook or be cooked at a low temperature in liquid in a closed container
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1. I love stew.
2. Brunswick stew on the inside.
3. I love stew.
4. Beef and potato stew Another solid pick for your cold!
5. Our tomato stewed white beans.
to warm up
/wˈɔːɹm ˈʌp/
verbto make cooked food warm again
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1. Just warm up this little hand.
2. The steering wheel warms up.
3. - Warm up the right way.
4. Warm up!
5. - Warmed up.
to whip
/ˈhwɪp/, /ˈwɪp/
verbto quickly beat cream or eggs until stiff
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1. The Hemisphere blade really kinda whipped the product inside the blender.
2. Whip some cream.
3. Whip the egg whites.
4. Whip, hear the sound.
5. First, whip your LinkedIn profile into shape.
to squeeze
/ˈskwiz/
verbto force liquid out of something by firmly twisting or pressing it
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1. Squeeze a little bit of lime on there.
2. - Squeezing your invisible boobies?
3. Squeezing the juice of one lime.
4. Then squeeze the throttle.
5. Squeeze your bits.
bland
/ˈbɫænd/
adjective(of drink or food) having no pleasant or strong flavor
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1. None of these places have bland food.
2. So food in space, tastes sort of bland.
3. Honestly, the first bite was really bland.
4. Bland chicken be gone.
5. - Making bland food.
chunky
/ˈtʃəŋki/
adjective(of food) having large pieces
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1. Really chunky HDMI cable.
2. I love it chunky.
3. The charger in the box is chunky for good reason.
4. - I like that, chunky.
5. Chunky chat masala though.
chewy
/ˈtʃui/
adjective(of food) requiring to be chewed a lot in order to be swallowed easily
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1. The snake was chewy.
2. Chewy's around.
3. Chewy what comes to mind for Lowell Lewis
4. So brown sugar makes cookie a little bit chewy.
5. Adults and kids alike love delicious, chewy Rice Krispie treats.
creamy
/ˈkɹimi/
adjectivehaving a smooth and soft texture like cream
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1. Egg yolks are extremely creamy.
2. These beans are creamy.
3. The sauce is creamy.
4. The sauce is so creamy.
5. So this one is creamier.
crispy
/ˈkɹɪspi/
adjective(of food) having a pleasant, dry, and hard texture or surface
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1. Sugar makes pastries crispy.
2. The edges are crispy.
3. The calamari looks crispy in some places.
4. Definitely crispy, impressive speckling and color.
5. The tofu's like really crispy.
crunchy
/ˈkɹəntʃi/
adjective(of food) firm and making a sharp sound when bitten
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1. The outside is crunchy.
2. His sticks are crunchy!
3. Those peppers stay crunchy.
4. The pickles are crunchy.
5. The pickles are crunchy.
tinned
/tˈɪnd/
adjective(of food) preserved and sold in a can
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appetite
/ˈæpəˌtaɪt/
nounthe feeling of wanting food
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1. It also makes you sleepy, and you lose your appetite and thirst.
2. The bottom is appetite.
3. The fear overrules the appetite.
4. And those combinations of hormones do increase appetite.
5. Resistant starch can also satisfy your appetite.
banquet
/ˈbæŋkwət/
nouna large and formal meal for many people, often for a special event
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1. When's the banquet?
2. When's this banquet happening?
3. When's the banquet?
4. Banquet has to go fast.
5. The small birds were taking their farewell banquets.
feast
/ˈfist/
nouna meal with fine food or a large meal for many people celebrating a special event
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1. Eagles feast on the stampede of flesh.
2. So feast your eyes on this veritable cornucopia of awesome anime on The Dan Cave's Annual Fall Anime Guide.
3. - Bring on my witches feast.
4. Feast your ears.
5. Feast your eyes on Sun Mingming, the tallest professional basketball player in the world.
brunch
/ˈbɹəntʃ/
nouna meal served late in the morning, as a combination of breakfast and lunch
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1. You want brunch?
2. You want brunch?
3. I have photos of, like, brunch.
4. Serve brunch.
5. I love brunch so much.
buffet
/ˈbəfət/, /bəˈfeɪ/
nouna meal with many dishes from which people serve themselves at a table and then eat elsewhere
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1. Our buffet has the best food of any buffet.
2. this buffet got a new lease on life from a simple paint job.
3. You love buffets.
4. Buffets are great.
5. We like buffets.
teatime
/tˈiːtaɪm/
nouna time in the early evening or afternoon when people have a light meal
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1. -What is it, teatime?
2. And then one at teatime, which is like four o'clock? - Yeah. -
3. Traditionally, the family exchanges gifts on Christmas Eve during teatime.
4. If she likes teatime with Barbie, ok!
5. You might always do a reading time at teatime at 4:00 o'clock say.
corkscrew
/ˈkɔɹksˌkɹu/
nouna small tool with a pointy spiral metal for pulling out corks from bottles
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1. Corkscrew like that.
2. Bar Craft stainless steel, Lazy Fish corkscrew.
3. The tunnel was a tight corkscrew.
4. He corkscrews his rival with a triple barrel roll.
5. Corkscrews, dumps it over into the oncoming lane of traffic.
glassware
/ˈɡɫæsˌwɛɹ/
nounobjects that are made of glass, particularly ones used for eating and drinking
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1. Paper wrappers and paper cups replaced the dishes and glassware.
2. Corning also makes glassware for labs in the pharmaceutical industry.
3. Her family makes glassware.
4. In terms of glassware, the gold standard for whiskey tasting is the Glencairn glass.
5. Keep a very close eye on the colorful closeout glassware.
tureen
/tjɚɹˈiːn/
nouna deep dish with a lid, used for serving soup
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1. they open up a little silver tureen.
2. Instead of the plastic paneled buffet bar with its red heat lamps, long cloth covered tables bore silver tureens of punch, and pyramids of petit fours and chocolate strawberries.
3. It was the consumption of what Mandeville called fripperies: hats, bonnets, gloves, butter dishes, soup tureens, shoehorns and hair clips that provided the engine for national prosperity and allowed the government to do in practice what the church only knew how to sermonise about in theory: make a genuine difference to the lives of the weak and the poor.
4. Then they took their places round a high soup tureen, from which issued an odor of cabbage.
5. "Cut half a pound of sweet almonds blanched in very fine thin fillets, put them in a small tureen with four ounces of powdered sugar, half a tablespoon of flour the peel of an orange (grated), two whole eggs, the yolk of another and a grain of salt."
