What is Cooking  


Look at the picture. Colour the spaces which have

dots in them. What do you see?

___________   ____________   ___________   ___________

___________   ____________   ___________   ___________

In the picture, you must have found some utensils that are

used for cooking. Are there any other utensils used in your

house for cooking? Which are they?

_____________   _____________    ______________

_____________   _____________    ______________

What are utensils made of ?

_____________   _____________    ______________

_____________   _____________    ______________

Ask some elderly people what kind of utensils were used

earlier. What were they made of ?

Ans: 

We do not cook all the things that we eat. Find

out which things we eat raw and which ones we

cook before eating. Which are the things we eat

both cooked and raw? Fill in the table given below.

Things that are            Things that are               Things that are eaten

   eaten raw                   eaten cooked                  both raw and cooked

_____________            ______________                ________________

_____________            ______________                ________________

_____________            ______________                ________________

_____________            ______________                ________________

_____________            ______________                ________________

Go to the kitchen and observe something being cooked.

What all was done to cook it? Write the sequence. Don’t

forget to write the name of the item being cooked. Look at

the notebook of your classmates and discuss in a group

Name of the item                   ________________

1. _____________   2. _____________  3. _____________

4. _____________  5. _____________  6. _____________

Given below are different methods of cooking. Write the names

of two things cooked by each of these methods. Add some

more methods of cooking to the list and give examples too.

Method of cooking                         Names of things

Roasting  ________________    ________________   

Boiling   ________________    ________________ 

Frying   ________________     ________________ 

 Baking  ________________     ________________ 

 ________________     ________________    ________________ 

 ________________     ________________     ________________ 

❉ What is used to cook food in your house? Draw a

picture in the notebook and write its name.

Ans: 

❉ Identify the pictures given below and write their

names. What produces heat in each of them? Match

the picture with the list. Matching can be with more

than one thing also.

Ans:

Which are the other things you can prepare without

cooking? Write their names and the method of preparing

them. One example is given below.