Cooking Verbs for Kids: Bake, Boil, Fry, Grill and Steam

Eight action words every young cook needs: bake and roast in the oven, boil and steam in a pot, fry in a pan, grill over the fire, chop on the board and mix in the bowl. They are also great English verbs for learners, because each one is easy to act out.

No word is diagonal. Chop, grill and steam run upward, and mix reads backwards.

Simple Cooking Verbs Vocabulary: 8 Words to Find

Words run across, up and down; 4 of the 8 read backwards. The longest words are Grill, Roast and Steam, with 5 letters each.

Bake: To cook food with dry heat in an oven, like bread, cakes and cookies.
Boil: To cook food in water that is bubbling hard, at 100 °C at sea level.
Chop: To cut food into pieces, roughly or evenly.
Fry: To cook food in hot oil or fat.
Grill: To cook food over or under direct, high heat.
Mix: To stir or blend ingredients together.
Roast: To cook food with dry heat in an oven, like meat or vegetables.
Steam: To cook food in the hot vapor rising from boiling water.

How to Solve the Simple Cooking Verbs Word Search

"Mix" has the only X and reads backwards, as XIM. "Bake" has the only K and "fry" the only F and Y. "Grill" has the only double letter, LL, and runs upward.

Cooking Verb Games for Kids and ESL

Play charades: act out each verb and let the others guess.
Match each verb to a food: boil an egg, bake a cake, chop a carrot.
Make a simple recipe together and say the verb at each step.