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Baste

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

verbCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, baste means: To spoon or brush fat or cooking juices over food while it cooks.

In Turkish: üzerine pişme suyu veya yağ gezdirmek

How it is used

Use with the food as the object and with to identify the liquid.

Example sentences

  1. Baste the roast with the juices collected in the tray.

    The tray juices are applied to the surface during roasting.

  2. She basted the mushrooms with butter from the pan.

    The verb also describes coating vegetables during pan cooking.

Common collocations

  • baste with butter
  • baste the roast
  • roastTo cook meat, poultry or vegetables with dry heat in an oven, usually at a fairly high temperature so the outside browns. As a noun, a roast is a joint of meat cooked this way.
  • frying panA shallow, flat-bottomed pan with a long handle and sloping sides, used for frying, sautéing and searing.

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