Cooking · Food and eating
taste as you go
check flavour while cooking
If you taste as you go, you try the food during cooking and adjust it.
This vs that
Taste as you go.
Season the soup.
Hear it in real life
How much chilli should I put in?
I'm not sure—just taste as you go.
Add the stock gradually and taste as you go, because the cheese is already quite salty.
Which sounds natural?
Psst — which one would you actually say?
This compact chunk is the usual friendly way to give cooking advice.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: You should taste while you go.
Say: You should taste as you go.
The fixed phrase uses 'as you go'.
Say it together
Whole chunks natives use with it.
taste as you go
Don't worry about exact amounts—taste as you go.
I always taste as I go when I'm making soup.
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 “taste as you go”.
Your turn: say it out loud
Just taste as you go.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
taste as you go
check flavour while cooking
“Add the stock gradually and taste as you go, because the cheese is already quite salty.”
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