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Grease

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

verbCore term

In culinary arts & cooking, grease means: To coat a cooking surface or container with a thin layer of fat.

In Turkish: kabı yağlamak

How it is used

Common in baking instructions with tins, trays and moulds.

Example sentences

  1. Grease the cake tin before adding the mixture.

    The verb describes preparing the container's surface.

  2. She greased the moulds with a little softened butter.

    The fat forms a thin coating inside the moulds.

Common collocations

  • grease a tin
  • lightly greased mould
  • 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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