Expressions with "Bake" and "Kitchen"

The listening lesson “Chocolate Apples” was about my attempt at baking! Let’s look at some phrases and idioms with bake and kitchen.

In a previous post, I said that ‘baking’ is a form of ‘cooking.’ However, we also have another use of the verb bake:

to bake
=to be or become very hot
You can use bake when the sun is very strong, and it’s hot and dry outside.

It’s so hot out today! I’m baking in the sun.

The car has been baking in the sun all day. It’s as hot as an oven!

You’re wearing a black outfit to the park? You’ll bake in it!

Baking can also be used as an adjective:

She has been out in the baking sun all day!

We have to wait for the car to cool down. It is baking hot!

a baker’s dozen
a dozen = 12; a baker’s dozen = 13

Half-baked
(adjective)
Something that is half-baked is foolish and poorly planned; crazy, stupid.

This is just another of her half-baked plans to make money quickly!

Yesterday the government announced a half-baked scheme to create jobs and spur the economy.

a bake sale
= a way to raise money; people donate baked goods they made, such as cupcakes, cookies, brownies, or rice krispy squares to sell.

Our church bake sale raised $500 for the soup kitchen.

If you can’t stand/take the heat, get out of the kitchen!
If you can’t handle the pressure, criticism or problems that are a result of a high-stress job, activity or environment, then you shouldn’t be doing that job or be in that environment. You should remove yourself from the situation.

The politician complained that his policies were being unfairly criticized by the press. If he can’t stand the heat, he should get out of the kitchen!

… everything but the kitchen sink!
= much more (of something) than you need or is necessary; an extremely large number of things

This is crazy! We’re only going away for the weekend – and she’s packed everything but the kitchen sink in her suitcase!

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