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Cooking terminology. - domokun1134 - 2011-05-05
Lately I've been making a lot of recipes from cookpad.com (awesome site BTW if you've never tried it). I've been noticing there's a lot of terminology and sentences that I'm not familiar with and don't show up in J-E nor J-J dictionaries. For example, in this recipe: http://cookpad.com/recipe/1423798
What does 手で食べやすい大きさにちぎる mean? What exactly does it want you to do?
Also I've seen 豚モモ come up a lot in recipes and I've ascertained it to mean "pork tenderloin", but the モモ part doesn't show up in dictionaries.
Anyone else got some good ones?
BTW I've found that cooking with Japanese recipes to be a lot of fun and helpful for learning vocab (albeit mostly cooking related) since you need to re-read it several times throughout the process. So far everything I've made from this site (about 5 or 6 dishes) has come out awesome, and I'm always sure to take a picture and make my 作れぽ。
Cooking terminology. - KMDES - 2011-05-05
I think it means "use your hands to cut up/rip/shred apart big pieces to make them easier to eat ."
Why you'd use your hand and not a knife, I don't know.
Cooking terminology. - nadiatims - 2011-05-05
The more literal breakdown would be something like:
"with hands tear (it) to an easy to eat bigness(size)."
で 手 千切る（それを）に やすい 食べ 大きさ
Here chopping of the い from 大き and adding さ turns the adjective(big) into a measure(bigness).
豚モモ means pig thighs. モモ means thighs. It can be written using the kanji 股 or 腿.
thanks for the new word 作れぽ
Cooking terminology. - Ryuujin27 - 2011-05-05
Wow, how rare to meet another person from Staten Island on the internet... particularly on a site about Japanese.
The way I learned all the basics of cooking terminology was to play Persona 4, and cook every time I could. All the good words are there.
Cooking terminology. - domokun1134 - 2011-05-05
Wow. Rare indeed. Looking for a study partner?
Cooking terminology. - Splatted - 2011-05-05
Ｄｏｅｓ ａｎｙｏｎｅ know of any sites that have vegetarian and/or vegan sections?
Cooking terminology. - domokun1134 - 2011-05-07
Okay here's another one. Right now I'm going to make dango (I'm going to make dango!!!) and this step has me confused.
http://cookpad.com/recipe/1424533
材料をすべて混ぜて、レンジで30秒♪
出して混ぜてチン♪をお好みの固さまで繰り返す。
I know what it means. Combine everything and nuke it for 30 seconds, and continue doing that until it's to your preferred hardness. What's with the musical notes and the チン。I know it represents the sound of the bell on a microwave (from the 80's) but I fail to see how it works in this sentence.
Cooking terminology. - chamcham - 2011-05-07
The word for "cooking terminology" in Japanese is "調理用語".
So maybe there are some online dictionaries with cooking-related
terms.
Cooking terminology. - pudding cat - 2011-05-07
domokun1134 Wrote:Okay here's another one. Right now I'm going to make dango (I'm going to make dango!!!) and this step has me confused.I guess the writer is using the musical note to refer to the sound of the microwaving being done. チンする means "to microwave" so 出して混ぜてチン is "take it out, mix it, microwave it".
http://cookpad.com/recipe/1424533
材料をすべて混ぜて、レンジで30秒♪
出して混ぜてチン♪をお好みの固さまで繰り返す。
I know what it means. Combine everything and nuke it for 30 seconds, and continue doing that until it's to your preferred hardness. What's with the musical notes and the チン。I know it represents the sound of the bell on a microwave (from the 80's) but I fail to see how it works in this sentence.
Cooking terminology. - domokun1134 - 2011-05-07
チンする no shit. Surprised I didn't notice that EDICT says exactly that. How funny.
Cooking terminology. - Sheepy - 2011-05-15
I'd really be interested in getting some more vocab down for cooking too. Also don't make the mistake of using 成分 instead of 材料 for "ingredients".
成分 is like the parts to medicine. 材料 is for cooking lol
Cooking terminology. - Tori-kun - 2011-05-15
domokun1134 Wrote:手で食べやすい大きさにちぎるSlightly shocked when Rikai-chan told me that ちぎる means 'to have a sexual relationship with..." lol It's obviously 千切る and not 契る, haha XD
Cooking terminology. - Tori-kun - 2011-05-15
Sheepy Wrote:I'd really be interested in getting some more vocab down for cooking too. Also don't make the mistake of using 成分 instead of 材料 for "ingredients".The N3 vocabulary (goi)/kanji book has a great section for that. It's the book available at the white rabbit press, if you are interested
成分 is like the parts to medicine. 材料 is for cooking lol
Cooking terminology. - domokun1134 - 2011-05-17
Tori-kun Wrote:Well some food can be so good that 契る doesn't seem that far off.domokun1134 Wrote:手で食べやすい大きさにちぎるSlightly shocked when Rikai-chan told me that ちぎる means 'to have a sexual relationship with..." lol It's obviously 千切る and not 契る, haha XD