How to Cut & Mix Foods in proper style

You carve meat when you cut thin pieces from a large piece: Dan carved the chicken. Other verbs are used for cutting food into small pieces, for example chop (or chop up): Chop the onion finely. / Chop up the carrots. If you dice food, you cut it into small squares: Peel and dice the potatoes. To mince food is to cut it into extremely small pieces: Mince the garlic and add it to the pan. Meanwhile, if you grate food, usually cheese, you cut it into many small pieces by rubbing it against a metal object with small, sharp holes (a grater): grated cheese.

And so to the mixing. To cream food such as butter and sugar is to use a spoon or other utensil to turn it into a smooth, thick mixture: Cream the butter and sugar till the mixture is light and fluffy. If you fold one food, especially egg, into another, you combine them by turning the food gently with a spoon: Fold the egg whites into the cake mixture.