What's Cooking? Vocabulary Exercise Answer Sheet
1. A lid is a pot cover.
2. You roll out pastry or cookie dough with a rolling pin.
3. You use a grater to grate or shred vegetables or cheese.
4. A pot goes on the top of the stove.
5. Pots and pans are common cookware, usually used on top of the stove.
6. A pot or a pan may have one long handle, a kettle two short handles. Since the single handle on a pot or pan is usually not heat proof, and the knob on the pan lid may not be heat proof either, pots and pans are not used in the oven. However, note below that containers used to bake are called baking pans.
7. A soup kettle, a tall pot with two small handles and a lid, is used for soups and stews. A tea kettle is used to boil water. A tea kettle is different from other kettles. It has a spout on one side, for pouring, and a semi-circular handle on the other.
8. Cookies are baked on a cookie sheet, or on (see number 9, next). When you take the cookies off the sheet, you might cool them on cookie racks.
9. A jelly roll pan is a shallow oblong pan used to bake a sheet cake.
10. Cake pans are used to bake layer cakes.
11. That mixture is called a casserole, and is baked in a casserole dish, or glass casserole.
12. You would cook a beef roast in the oven in a roaster or roasting pan. It might have a lid. If it doesn't have a lid, it is called an open roaster.
13. An enamel pan is a good heavy pan for cooking fudge.
14. Modern cookware which is permanently coated is called non-stick.
15. A loaf pan, also called a bread pan, is used to bake loaves of bread, quick bread, or meatloaf.
16. A frying pan is used to fry foods, like fish or chops. It may not have a lid.
17. A griddle is a shallow pan with a lip around it used to cook pancakes. Sometimes it is called a pancake griddle.
18. A pie is baked in a pie plate or a pie pan.
19. A mixing bowl is the container you use to stir up cake batter, cookie dough, or many other mixtures.
20. A spatula or a scraper will get the mixing bowl clean.
21. To keep from getting burned, you use one or two pot holders or oven mitts.