Many types of food can be eaten raw; others have to be prepared. The room where the food is prepared is called kitchen. The procedures we do with food involve washing, cutting, or adding other foods or ingredients, including spices.

Before the actual cooking, we have to buy the food. Afterwards the food must be prepared for cooking, i.e. some types of food need to be peeled, cut, chopped.

To peel means to remove the skin from the vegetables or fruit, e.g. onions, bananas.

To cut = to divide the food into small pieces.

To chop = to cut into small pieces, generally it is used with vegetables.

To add = to put ingredients together.

To mix = to combine two or more things together using a spoon or electric mixer.

To stir = to mix liquid ingredients together using a spoon.

There are different ways how we can cook the food. The basic techniques are:

We need different equipment for cooking. First of all, we need a cooker with oven. We can use a microwave too. We put the food which we want to cook into pans or pots and we use other tools such as spatulas, spoons, knives and so on.

Cutlery or silvery is used for preparing, serving and eating food. It is often made of steel and it consists of spoon, fork and knife.

People in Asia do not use cutlery for eating, the most common tool for eating are chopsticks.

In the Middle East and India, people use their right hand for eating.