CBSE Class 3 EVS

NCERT Solutions

Chapter -10

WHAT IS COOKING

1. Look at the pictures given in the textbook on page 61. Colour the spaces which have

dots in them. What do you see.

Ans. Students fill the colours themselves. I can see utensils used for cooking.


2. What are utensils made of?

Ans. Steel, Iron, Copper, Glass, Bronze, Earth (Earthern pots)


3. Ask some elderly people what kind of utensils were used earlier. What were they

made of?

Ans. In earlier times utensils were made up of copper and bronze. The utensils were very

large in size.


4. We do not cook all the things we eat. Find out which things we eat raw and which

ones we cook before eating. Which are the things we eat both cooked and raw? Fill in

the table.

Ans.




5. Go to the kitchen and observe something being cooked. What all was done to cook it?

Write the sequence. Don’t forget to write the name of the item being cooked. Look at

the notebook of your classmates and discuss in group.

Ans. Name of the item: Tea (Two cups)

1. Boil half cup water in a bowl.

2. Add two spoons sugar.

3. Add one spoon tea leaves.

4. Add half cup milk on boiling.

5. Turn the gas off on boiling.

6. Put the tea in cups with the help of sieve.


6. Given below are different methods of cooking. Write the names of two things cooked

by each of these methods. Add some more methods of cooking to the list and give

examples too.

Ans.




7. What is used to cook food in your house? Draw a picture in the notebook and write its

name.

Ans. Gas


8. Which are the other things you can prepare without cooking? Write their names and

the method of preparing them. One example is given below.

Ans. (i) Lemon water: Mix sugar in water – Add Lemon juice – Stain it – Lemon water is

ready.

(ii) Chutney: Cut coriander and green chillies – Wash them and grind in the mixer – Add salt

– Chutney is ready

(iii) Lassi: Mash curd with the help of a masher – Add sugar – Add ice – Lassi is ready.