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Hello Everyone and welcome to English pod. my name is Marco.

my name is Catherine and it’s the holiday season. Marco people are eating large meals with their families, and I think often times and you cook a lot of food, you have something extra at the end. would recall that.

that’s right, today we’re going to talk about left over’s leftovers.

that the extra food after your meal that you eat later. Maybe the next day.

exactly so you know during Christmas or during some holidays we cook so much food that obviously we can’t eat it all. So we put it back in the refrigerator and then we eat later. So those are called leftovers

right so let’s listen to this dialogue about leftovers and will be back in a moment to discuss what’s happening in the dialogue.

A: What’s for dinner?

B: Leftovers.

A: What? Leftovers of what and from when?

B: From last night! I took the left over turkey, mixed it with some diced peppers and onions, added a little bit of mayonnaise and made some sandwiches!

A: Isn’t that dangerous though? I mean bacteria and germs reproducing on food that was left out or reheated?

B: Well, I didn’t leave the turkey out at room temperature for more than a an hour and I refrigerated it soon after we finished eating. Also, when reheating, I put it in the oven for fifteen minutes at one hundred degrees Celsius.

A: Well ok, I am just afraid of getting food poisoning.

B: Don’t worry about it! Making a new meal out of leftovers is almost an art! Not only do you save money, but you also get to be creative and have something different to eat!

rights a lot of vocab there. Let’s take a look at it in language take away.

language take away.

I’d some to Marco. There is one cooking term really in this dialogue. That is, it’s a little bit different from the others. So let’s start with that. It’s nice.

that’s right. We were talking about taking some peppers or diced peppers. So when you dice of vegetable or anything that you cooking basically making little little little pieces, little squares, almost.

That’s right so you can cut something many different ways you can cut big pieces in small pieces but diced peppers, diced is a specific way to cut something small like you say small squares and so in recipes. You will often see this instruction. Dice the peppers or in this case the peppers are diced.

That’s right alright so we took some turkey mixing with diced peppers and a lot of things in the room. It was a little bit concerned about bacteria and germs

All right so bacteria and germs. These sound like very scientific words. Um, bacteria is something that grows on why everything really fast if you leave food out. For example, it gets bacteria or germs are things that can make you sick.

That’s right.

And so we need to avoid these things in the kitchen because they make us unhealthy and that’s how we wash our hands and things like that. But when you have food that’s left out. The risk is what Marco.

Is that you get bacteria or germs on it yet, so it’s dangerous like, especially with meat. Leave it out. It’s very very dangerous because you can get some bacteria that will make you sick. And the reason why were a little bit concerned is, especially with meats is if you leave it out after cooking it at room temperature.

heights or room temperature is the temperature of the normal room. Maybe it’s 65° or in what’s 25°C yeah it’s the temperature of the inside of her room.

right

and so it’s not cold it’s not hot it’s just normal and when we leave food out. Especially me like you’re saying we have to be careful, you can’t leave it out for very long if it’s something like eggs or milk or what we call perishables.

That’s right. So, actually, here comes the other two words that are a little bit of a contrast, were going to talk about food that is reheated or refrigerated

rights of the roommate is explaining. Don’t worry, we have done these things to this food. So it’s safe. So one thing you can do to food to make it safe to kill germs is to reheated. That means will you know the word heated right it’s too to make something hot but how that info reheated?

will because you cooked it already so it was warm. Now it went a little bit cold because it’s at room temperature. So in order to make sure that it’s safe to eat, and you kill that bacteria you reheated so you kind of cook it again a little bit.

and you cook it again. So with leftovers. We often have to reheat things because they were hot than they were called, and now we want them hot again.

That’s right,

we reheat them the opposite of that would be refrigerated

right in this is what you should do if you take something and put it in the refrigerator. What you are doing the verb. The action is to refrigerate it.

That’s right so to refrigerate something means to make it cold. The other important things that we refrigerate. We refrigerate eggs. We refrigerate milk. Refrigerate butter is it things that can make us sick. If we don’t make them cold.

Exactly. So those are the two words. Now obviously we it’s a little bit different because the prefix to reheat needs to do it again well to refrigerate means you just making cold.

yeah well are important terms and again we also have the adjectives. This is reheated or refrigerated, but there another couple of phrases that are really important. So let’s take a listen to those in fluency builder.

fluency builder

alright so the first rate to take a look at is when one of the roommates is hat. what’s for dinner?

what’s for dinner, all right this is a very, very standard phrases is something you’ll here at home. You hear with your friends. It’s usually something to say that when someone is cooking food for dinner.

That’s right were asking what are we going to eat for dinner

mom what’s for dinner?

exactly

that every single day when I came home from school.

will obviously don’t want to see the long phrase. What are we going to have for dinner tonight, so you just say what’s for dinner.

What’s for dinner? and then the answer would be Lazania or turkey sandwiches.

right it exactly know when they started talking about the leftover turkey. He was a little bit concerned as we said about bacteria and germs because it usually happens that you get this on food that was left out.

All right, so the verb here is to leave out, to leave something out on it means to leave something or put something at room temperature.

Right.

So Marco, you and I are eating turkey at Thanksgiving and we start to have coffee and dessert and the turkey is still in the room

right

That a room temperature. We did not refrigerated. That means it was left out. How long was it left out. Well, maybe two hours.

right right

that mean so it’s it’s not in a refrigerator.

That’s right. That’s exactly what it means when you go to sleep and you left the turkey out. It’s still on the table. Maybe at room temperature.

Oh, no we can eat it if we left it out for like 12 hours.

exactly. All right, so it’s not good to leave food out and now what happens is it if you do eat food that was left out for too long you could get food poisoning.

I know this is very serious and it’s something that you should be very careful about when you’re cooking food poisoning is getting sick from your food.

right

there different kinds of food poisoning but usually it makes you throw it makes your stomach hurt quite painful.

That’s right. And so this is why we say you know you should wash your hands before you cook, you should make sure that you refrigerate needs because you want to avoid food poisoning.

that that’s right. And it comes from the noun poison a poison, which is something that is harmful for your body.

That’s right. There many different kinds of poison, but food poisoning means becoming sick here body getting sick after you eat something bad.

that’s right alright so a lot of great stuff here. We can review everything one last time.

A: What’s for dinner?

B: Leftovers.

A: What? Leftovers of what and from when?

B: From last night! I took the left over turkey, mixed it with some diced peppers and onions, added a little bit of mayonnaise and made some sandwiches!

A: Isn’t that dangerous though? I mean bacteria and germs reproducing on food that was left out or reheated?

B: Well, I didn’t leave the turkey out at room temperature for more than a an hour and I refrigerated it soon after we finished eating. Also, when reheating, I put it in the oven for fifteen minutes at one hundred degrees Celsius.

A: Well ok, I am just afraid of getting food poisoning.

B: Don’t worry about it! Making a new meal out of leftovers is almost an art! Not only do you save money, but you also get to be creative and have something different to eat!

All right so this is actually good advice about leftovers about having something to eat but at the same time how many people actually are very careful with these things. For example, pizza. Sometimes you leave Pete out on the table all night and the next morning you have some pizza.

I always refrigerate my pizza

really

I know people who leave their pizza out and then eat it. But this cheese and sausage and you want to refrigerate that stuff. So I always wrap it in plastic and put it on a plate in the fridge.

Okay, you wrap in plastic

well because in the refrigerator is also germs you need to make sure you cover your food.

right right right and what about have you ever had of a bad case of food poisoning because of having leftovers?

No. I’ve had food poisoning but not because of leftovers because as I said before, you and I wrapped things I put them in the refrigerator and very careful because I don’t want to get sick or I don’t want to get other people sick.

right

Beacause you know, Thanksgiving or Christmas you have to give food to many other people and you know I want to make anyone sick.

and actually you can get food poisoning not only from leftovers but from maybe food that may be was expired. Like, sometimes cheese maybe can be expired and realize it and you know you get food poisoning.

Or from people who are cooking with things that are not clean So you had some clean our food tit’s not fresh and it makes you very sick. That’s food poisoning.

That’s right. So in it’s an interesting thing, especially with like I said so many holidays where you cook so much food that people have a lot of leftovers and not only that, but even at restaurants. Maybe you you ordered too much. So you have leftovers want to take home to your dog or to have later.

I love leftovers. yeah. what it’s not do you have leftovers in your country. Are there things that you should and shouldn’t do with when cooking. Let us know our our website is English pot.com.

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