2. Read and translate the text: Cooking Utensils

Essential modern kitchen equipment includes the following: a stove, or range; sink; working surface; various knives, pots and pans; such utensils as spatulas, whisks, specialized spoons, and rolling pins; and a more highly specialized kitchen gear for producing pastries and other baked goods. In recent years such sophisticated equipment as blenders, food processors, and microwave ovens has become common. Although such tools do save considerable preparation and cooking time, none of them has improved on the results to be achieved by more traditional techniques.

To cut or peel products one uses knives: bone scissors, bread knife, cheese slicer, chef’s knife, fillet knife, fish-slice, kitchen scissors, meat knife, potato peeler, peel, tomato and vegetable knife. If you need to divide food into parts you can use grater, mortar and pestle, mill, potato masher, lemon squeezer.

Cookware and bakeware are types of food preparation containers usually found in the kitchen. Cookware is composed of various cooking vessels such as saucepans and fry pans intended for use on stove. Bakeware is composed of cooking vessels intended for use inside an oven. But it is possible for a single utensil to be used as cookware and bakeware. It can be made of copper, steel, aluminium, stainless steel and non-metalic materials: ceramics (used in microwave ovens), pyrex, silicon (light and can withstand temperature of 204°C), nonstick coatings (Teflon). There are the following types of cookware: pots, pans, casseroles and sheetpans.

Microwave oven is an appliance that uses electromagnetic energy to heat and cook foods. Microwaves cook food rapidly and efficiently because, unlike ovens, they heat only the food and not the air or the oven walls. Microwave ovens tend to cook moist food more quickly than dry foods, because there is more water to absorb the microwaves. However, microwaves cannot penetrate deeply into foods, sometimes making it difficult to cook thicker foods.

A food processor is a kitchen appliance used to facilitate various repetitive tasks in the process of preparation of food. In modern days, it is usually packed with an electric motor, although there are manual versions. It is designed to chop, mash and slice a wide variety of foods. Some models of food processors can also be used to knead bread dough.

3. Answer the following questions:

1. What cooking utensils are considered as classic and what as sophisticated equipment?

2. What are the advantages of sophisticated equipment?

3. Where do we use cookware?

4. Where do we use bakeware?

5. What is bakeware?

6. What do we use knives for?

7. What is a microwave oven?

8. What materials are used for bakeware?

9. What are pros and cons of microwaving?

10. What do we use food processors for?

4. Give Ukrainian equivalents of the following:

essential, modern kitchen equipment, working surface, various knives, utensils, spatula, whisk, specialized spoons, rolling pin, kitchen gear, baked goods, sophisticated equipment, blender, food processor, to be achieved by, bone scissors, fillet knife, fish-slice, mortar and pestle, mill, cookware and bakeware, pyrex, silicon

5. Give English equivalents of the following:

істотний, кухонна плита, поверхня, різний, різноманітний, шпатель, лопатка, кухонне приладдя, випічка, ускладнений, час приготування їжі, бути досягнутим,посуд для випікання, посудина, мати намір, ступка і товкач, соковижималка для цитрусових, кремній/силікон, антипригарне покриття, форма-лист для випічки, вогкий, пристрій, проникати, замішувати, тісто

6. Paraphrase the following sentences using synonyms from the text instead of the underlined words:

1. For the kitchen to function properly you need to choose from among different kitchen utensils.

2. Necessary cooking vessels are pots and pans.

3. More complex utensils make cooking easier.

4. They are going to buy a new food processor to make preparation time shorter.

5. I consider this task to be repetitious and consisting of several similar parts.

7. Fill in the gaps in the table. Some words you will take from the box others you’ll find yourselves.

casserole, cheese, to grind, spatula, masher, dough, batter, mixer, blender, bowl, scissors, fillet, cookware

Utensils	Activity	Products
squeezer, juicer	to squeeze	fruit (lemon, oranges, apples, etc.), vegetables
	to mash
	to cut
	to knead
rolling-pin
		cakes, tarts, pies, pastry, meat, fish, poultry, some vegetables
	to fry
	to boil
	to stir
	to blend/to mix
grater
		coffee, pepper
	to flip