Food / A2

BAYK/beɪk/

Bake means cook in an oven: bake bread, bake a cake, baking tray. Roast is often for meat; fry uses oil in a pan. Baker is the person. Back is the rear. Bacon is meat. Do not write bake when you mean back, or bacon.

Meaning

To cook food in an oven.

Examples

• “We can bake potatoes in the hostel oven tonight.”
• “We can bake the frozen pizza in the hostel oven.”
• “Do not bake fish if the kitchen has no extractor — it smells.”

Good to know

bake bread / a cake. Person: baker. Mix-up: back, bacon.

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