Food words for Alias — dishes and the kitchen

Dishes, ingredients and the tools you cook with. The safest set for a big group.

A culinary set: dishes, everyday ingredients and the things you cook with. Words everyone knows regardless of age or education — which is why this set almost never falls flat.

Why this is close to a sure thing

Food is the one experience everybody in the room shares. An eight-year-old, a student and a grandmother all know what a grater is. Take this set early in the evening, while the group is still warming up and nobody wants difficulty yet.

• Come at it through taste and smell rather than looks: "sour, it makes you squint" gets to lemon faster.
• For dishes, name the main ingredient and the cooking method — that is almost always enough.
• Kitchen tools are easiest to mime in words: say what you do with it, not what it looks like.

soup, pancake, dumpling, omelette, porridge, sandwich, salad, pizza, pasta, rice, bread, butter, cheese, yoghurt, cream, bacon, sausage, steak, cabbage, beetroot, beans, cucumber, tomato, radish, garlic, onion, pumpkin, watermelon, raspberry, strawberry, plum, cherry, lemon, walnut, honey, oil, vinegar, flour, yeast, saucepan, ladle, frying pan, sieve, rolling pin, grater, colander, bowl, baking tray, kettle, corkscrew

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