After the house and furniture, here are some more vocabulary about kitchen appliances and utensils. As always, I hope this helps
I did not know 奶油机 Thats a great word! “Cream Machine” for blender
I didn’t know most of these! Thank you!
Oh, one of the most important words is missing (
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From the above words I knew already 洗碗机 (LTL vocab) and 咖啡机.
To describe Shanghai - once I had looked up 开瓶器。 Only the 器 was new.
And as I have learned from some witty LTL video (about the useful 这个):
for the rest, I can say 这个机 and 这个器。
Very useful! Brb… off to label my kitchen now…
Hmm, both my Chinese-German friends said 奶油机 sounds like making cream only with it. One said he would say 厨房搅拌机 to the big kitchen machine.
Maybe the expression is used differently in China itself?
A lot of words tend to get shortened in China, as with most languages in fact, so this could perhaps be the reason?
Just a thought from me
Thank you for sharing Sonja! We got the help from our teachers team in LTL Beijing for this vocabulary, I guess just like you said some words might be used differently in China.
Also, we need to keep in mind that some appliances we think as “common” in the West are not at all common in China, so this might be one of them. From my experience of living in Chinese homestay families, they didn’t have any appliances and tools to bake, which is common in France, but not China
Oh this is a good idea! I used to label things back when I started learning Chinese and it was super useful! Definitely need to go label everything in my kitchen now
Corkscrew doesn’t seem common in China
oh that’s a good tip. I don’t know any of them so I should do the same
One item that you can find in the kitchen and that I will never forget is the “tap”, which is called 水龙头. Literally, it means “water dragon head” and it’s called like that because the tap actually looks like a dragon’s neck!!
i had no idea about this, it’s a bit funny but then I will easily remember it!
that sounds interesting, I think this word and its meaning will stick in my head from now on