Cooking · Food and eating
from scratch
using basic ingredients
If you cook from scratch, you prepare the food yourself from basic ingredients.
This vs that
I made the soup from scratch.
I warmed up the soup.
Hear it in real life
Did you buy the pizza base?
No, I made it from scratch.
I made the curry from scratch, including the spice paste.
Which sounds natural?
Psst — which one would you actually say?
This fixed phrase is the natural way to stress that you made the food yourself.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I cooked this dish from the scratch.
Say: I cooked this dish from scratch.
Do not use 'the' before 'scratch' in this phrase.
Say it together
Whole chunks natives use with it.
cook ___ from scratch
I usually cook dinner from scratch on Sundays.
She learned to make bread from scratch during lockdown.
Phrases to borrow
More for talking about cooking.
bring to the boil
Bring the water to the boil, then add the pasta.
keep an eye on ___
Keep an eye on the onions while I set the table.
Cooking words
Food and eating · Cooking: the words around “from scratch”.
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Same word, different world
Your turn: say it out loud
I made it from scratch.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
from scratch
using basic ingredients
“I made the curry from scratch, including the spice paste.”
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