Hello. Are you hungry? You better get to the kitchen.
"The chicken? The kitchen." Chicken -- kitchen. Today, I'm going to teach you about
vocabulary that you will find very useful if you've ever been in a kitchen. Now, the
thing that's confusing sometimes is that when you want to say "kitchen", you say "chicken".
Oh, no! It's okay. It's funny. I do it all the time. Do I do it all the time? It's a very
natural mistake. So if you're ever having a conversation in English, and you say "chicken"
instead of "kitchen", don't worry. But we're going to go through some kitchen vocabulary.
My name is Ronnie. Let me take you through the magic of the kitchen. The very,
very first word that I'm going to teach you is "nuke". "Nuke?" "Nuke" is a verb,
and it's a new word from the 1980s. That's so new. It's 30 years old. "Nuke" is the verb
that we use for a microwave. A microwave maybe came out in 1981; I don't know. I remember
in my house getting one in 1983, and I could make popcorn, and it was amazing. So about
the 1980s, we had this amazing thing called a "microwave". You probably know what a "microwave" is.
But if you don't, it's like a little oven that cooks your food really, really quickly.
We actually developed a new word for this. We call it "nuke". So I can say, "I nuke my food."
That means, "I put my food in the microwave." Ding, ding, ding! And it's ready to eat. The
next thing that we have is an "oven" or a "stove". Now, "oven" and "stove" -- same word.
It does not matter if you say "oven" or "stove". Who cares? I don't. An "oven" or a
"stove" -- properly, the "stove" is actually a "stove top" where you would put things on top
of the stovetop. And the "oven" is actually this part inside where you open the door.
Inside the oven part, at the bottom here, you can bake a cake for me. I like cheesecake.
If you'd like to bake me a cake, please do send it to me at www.engvid.com. I will be
happy to eat it. You can "grill" or "broil". Now, "grill" and "broil" are the same. It
just depends on what your oven says. When you "bake" something, the heat comes from the
top and the bottom of the oven, and it's distributed throughout. If you "grill" or
"broil" something, the heat comes from the top, and it cooks it on the top of the meat
or whatever you're cooking. So the "broil" and the "grill" -- the heat comes from the top.
And "bake"; the heat comes from the top and the bottom. So depending on what you're
cooking would be the setting on what you're going to use on your oven or your stove.
When we bake something, we usually have a certain temperature -- 250 degrees, or you
can have 400 degrees. One is Fahrenheit, and one is Celsius. Most of them have both, but
if you don't know on your recipe, you could always look on the Internet. It's magic. The
next thing -- speaking about magic -- is a toaster. This is the most magical machine
ever to be invented in your kitchen. Let me explain the magic of the toaster. You take
a simple piece of bread. You put it in the toaster; press the button down; you wait.
"Bing!" Out comes lovely, warm, crusty toast. This machine, very simply, is called a "toaster".
So you put bread into the toaster -- like magic, it becomes "toast". The next
appliance we have is a "kettle". Now, if you like to drink tea or coffee, you're
going to love to have a kettle. A "kettle" is a machine that boils water. You can have
one on your stovetop, or you can also have one that plugs into the wall. I'm not a very
good artist -- or am I? But if you can kind of use your imagination, these both are called
"kettles"; they're used for boiling water. Do you like coffee? I love coffee. We also
have what's called a "coffeemaker". I know. Sometimes, English makes sense. Guess what this makes.
Coffee. So you press some buttons -- some magic; water turns into coffee. It's
like water into wine but not as nice. Better in the morning, though. The next thing
that we have, another big appliance -- these, by the way, are called "appliances"
-- is a "refrigerator". We never bother saying "refrigerator". We say "fridge". And on top
of the fridge, we have a "freezer". Now, all of it is called a "fridge", but the top part
is called a "freezer". A "freezer" is where there's going to be ice, and things in it are
going to be frozen. Frozen. So let's say that you have a delicious frozen dinner, and
you want to nuke it. You're going to put it in the microwave. At the bottom
part of your refrigerator is the "fridge". In this, you're going to keep
your beer and your milk and maybe some fruit and vegetables. This keeps things cold.
The last one that I have for you today is a "sink". This was difficult for me to draw,
so please bear with. A "sink" is the place in your kitchen where you would wash the dishes
if you don't have a dishwasher, and where you would get your water supply. This part here
is also called a "counter" or a "countertop". Usually, in the kitchen, people talk about
having lots of "counter space". We don't usually say "countertop". We usually say the "counter".
Now, if you live in some place like Canada or any place in the world that has fruit,
you might see things flying around in this video. We live in a very, very amazing region
in Canada called "Ontario". It's the "Fruit Belt". We produce naturally -- not oranges.
Don't tell anyone. We are very famous for producing grapes, pears, peaches -- this is a peach.
And lots of yummy, delicious fruit. One problem: Sometimes you take your delicious
fruit from Niagara, and you put it on your countertop in a bowl. But what happens next is treacherous.
These tiny little flies come, and they try to eat your fruit. Someone has
left a basket of peaches around us, so if you see tiny little flies in this video, they're
after the fruit. These are actually called "fruit flys". So watch out. They're here to
steal your fruit -- except I've spelled this wrong. It's "fruit flies" because they fly
around your fruit. There's one now! Bye.
