Cooking Word Search
By Reggie J·Updated
Cooking word search puzzles with technique and kitchen English — simmer, roast, whisk and pantry verbs for adults. Easy to hard plus large print. No restaurant chains.
Cooking puzzles
Easy · 10×10 · 10 words
Cooking: Stove Basics
Easy · 10×10 · 10 words
Cooking: Quiet Simmer
Easy · 10×10 · 10 words
Cooking: Still Room
Hard · 15×15 · 18 words
Hard Cooking: Full Kitchen
Large print · 9×9 · 8 words
Large Print Cooking: Soft Stir
Medium · 12×12 · 14 words
Cooking: Pantry Skill
Medium · 12×12 · 14 words
Cooking: Recipe Night
Medium · 12×12 · 14 words
Cooking: Harbor Light
Part of our Food word search collection.
What words are in the cooking word search?
Technique and kitchen verbs — simmer, roast, whisk — no restaurant chains.
The full cooking word bank has 48 words. Each puzzle picks a set from this list, so no two grids are quite the same:
BAKE · BATTER · BLEND · BOIL · BRAISE · BROTH · BUTTER · CHOP · COOK · CRUST · DICE · DOUGH · FOLD · FRY · GRATE · GRAVY · GRILL · HEAT · HERB · KNEAD · LADLE · MINCE · OIL · OVEN · PAN · PEEL · PEPPER · POACH · POT · ROAST · SALT · SAUCE · SAUTE · SEAR · SEASON · SERVE · SIMMER · SKILLET · SLICE · SPICE · STEAM · STIR · STOCK · STOVE · TASTE · TIMER · TOAST · WHISK
Who is this theme good for?
A food child theme for home cooks.
A solving tip
Double letters in BUTTER and BATTER jump out quickly.
How these puzzles work
Every puzzle is free and plays in your browser on a phone, tablet or computer. Drag across a word, or tap its first and last letter. Easy grids are 10×10 with words across and down; medium grids are 12×12 and add diagonals; hard grids are 15×15 with words in all eight directions. Press Large print above any grid for bigger letters. Progress is saved on your device, and there is never a timer. New to word searches? Read how to play.
Sources & notes
Word lists on Words at Rest use American English spelling (for example color, not colour). Merriam-Webster records colour as chiefly the British spelling of color. Merriam-Webster: colour.
“chiefly British spelling of color”
