Cooking בישול

13 advanced Hebrew words on cooking — with pictures, native audio and example sentences. In the kitchen: pots, pans and what happens in them.

English	Hebrew	Note
to cook	לבשל	🔗 Rootב-ש-ל — also בישול (cooking) and תבשיל (a cooked dish).
recipe	מתכון	🔗 RootFrom ת-כ-ן, like תוכנית (a plan).
ingredient	מרכיב	🔗 RootFrom להרכיב, to assemble. 🔀 Several meaningsAlso a component of anything.
pot	סיר	Not סירה, which is a boat.
frying pan	מחבת
oven	תנור	🔀 Several meaningsAlso a heater: תנור חימום.
to cut	לחתוך	🔗 Rootח-ת-ך — a piece is חתיכה.
to fry	לטגן	🔗 RootFried is מטוגן, frying is טיגון.
to boil	להרתיח	Hif’il, the causative — you boil the water; the water itself רותח.
salt	מלח	👓 Same spellingThe same letters as מלח, a sailor — mélach salt, malách a sailor. The Dead Sea is ים המלח.
oil	שמן	👓 Same spellingThe same letters as שמן, 'fat' — shémen oil, shamén fat.
flour	קמח	The proverb אם אין קמח אין תורה — without flour there is no Torah.
flavor	טעם	🔀 Several meaningsAlso 'a reason, a point': אין טעם = there is no point.