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Baker's lame

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, baker's lame means: A small blade on a handle used to score bread dough before baking.

In Turkish: ekmek çizme jileti

How it is used

Used for controlled cuts on shaped loaves; lame names the scoring tool.

Example sentences

  1. The baker's lame made a long slash across the loaf.

    The blade makes a deliberate opening in the dough surface.

  2. She changed the blade in her baker's lame.

    Only the cutting blade is replaced; the handle of the bread-scoring tool is retained.

Common collocations

  • score with a baker's lame
  • lame blade
  • bakeTo cook food with dry heat in an oven, especially bread, cakes, pastry, biscuits and dishes covered with a crust or sauce.
  • prepShort for preparation: the work of getting food ready before cooking or service, such as washing, peeling, cutting, portioning and making sauces. Also used as a verb.

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