Crossword clues for basting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
basting \basting\ n.
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Loose temporary stitches.
Syn: baste, tacking.
(Cookery) The act or process of moistening a roast as it is cooking.
Wiktionary
n. (context 1811 English) A (physical) beating. vb. (present participle of baste English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Basting may refer to:
- A type of stitch in sewing
- Basting (cooking), a cooking technique
Basting is a cooking technique that involves cooking meat with either its own juices or some type of preparation such as a sauce or marinade. The meat is left to cook, then periodically coated with the juice.
Prominently used in grilling, rotisserie, roasting, and other meat preparations where the meat is over heat for extended periods of time, basting is used to keep meat moist during the cooking process and also to apply or enhance flavor. Improperly administered basting, however, may actually lead to the very problem it is designed to prevent: the undesired loss of moisture (drying out) of the meat.
If not compensated by countermeasures, the opening of the oven door and the resulting loss of temperature and moisture content of the air circulating inside can lead to increased evaporation from the meat surfaces.
To prevent this, the easiest solution is to place the meat in a closed oven bag, which traps evaporating moisture and does not let it disseminate into the oven space and then out to the kitchen. The meat is "auto basted" when the air trapped inside the bag reaches the point of its maximum possible moisture content, and the resulting precipitate forms into drops on the surfaces of the meat or the wall of the bag. The drops roll down to the lowest point of the closed space, where the meat sits and cooks in the resulting juices. This technique often requires minimal or no added liquids other than what the meat already contains, for loss of moisture is virtually negligible from inside the bag. Perhaps even better, some oven pans are designed to carry a lid. Other alternatives include allowing extended cooking time, administering increased amounts of juices, coating the meat with moisture rich fruits or fat-rich cuts, such as bacon, or actual fat, place moisture rich fruits and vegetables around the cooking meats, and if possible, using a convection oven.
This is a type of cooking usually recommended for dishes that generally taste mild, but are served with sauces that provide complementing or overpowering flavor to them, for example Chicken chasseur.
Basting is a technique generally known to be used for turkey, pork, chicken, duck, and beef (including steak), but may be applied to virtually any type of meat.
Usage examples of "basting".
Again, she had assessed Occula as a girl of exceptional style, with far more than the kind of short-term basting appeal of a beauty like Meris, and she did not mean to let her attraction burn up and blaze out like a fire-festival bonfire.
The prospect of an afternoon spent with a warm, good-humored admirer, a sound basting or two and a nice, fat lygol to take home afterwards, was by no means unpleasant.
Well, that explained a whole basting lot, as Occula would no doubt have remarked.
They boast and shout and sing and drink themselves silly and naturally they generally get to basting the girls as well.
And despiteor perhaps because ofhis ready opportunities for pleasure elsewhere, these had set up in him a relentless craving which her subsequent renown and exaltation had only served to inflame, for they had made him suppose the chance of actually basting her again to be gone for ever.
Maia, for her part, was more than glad of a friend who, unlike the shearnas, was not for ever concerned with men, basting and the material advantages to be gained therefrom.
Now go and fetch the saiyett the men she asked you for, and basting quickly, too!
Pour a little boiling water into the pan and bake slowly, basting as required.
Add a little boiling water and bake in a very hot oven, basting as required.
Dot with butter and bake in a moderate oven for forty minutes, basting freely.
Dot the fish with butter, cover with buttered paper, and bake for forty-five minutes, basting as required.
Lay on thin slices of salt pork and bake, basting frequently with the fat.
Clean a large bluefish, put into a baking-pan, pour over it a cupful of boiling salted water, cover and bake for an hour, basting frequently.
Bake in a pan with a cupful of hot water and a tablespoonful of butter, basting frequently.
Cover with a buttered paper and cook for forty minutes, basting as required.