🪵 A long board 📋 A main principle 💥 To drop heavily 🪵 To cover with boards 🤸 To lie stiffly 🍽️ To cook on wood

to plank

1 9.3

To cook food on a wooden board, usually fish or meat

verb
/plæŋk/

: cocinar sobre una tabla

cedar-planked salmon
planked salmon
planked whitefish

Examples

The cedar-planked salmon is our specialty.

After We Fell (2021)
But the planked shad, when it came, was worth the wait.

Fiction book (1991)
The chef loves to plank salmon over an open flame, giving it a unique smoky flavor.
To prepare the dish, you must plank the fish on a piece of cedar wood before broiling.
It is common to plank fish and serve it directly from the wood for a rustic presentation.

Phrasal Verbs

to plank down

1 8.0

To put something down hard, often making a loud sound

to plank over

6.5

To cover a surface with wooden boards

Compounds

plank-bed

Archaic

1 9.1

A simple bed made of wooden boards with no mattress

garboard plank

Specialized

1 9.9

A piece of wood placed next to the keel on each side of a wooden ship's hull

How Cooked

to sear

32 6.1

to broil

12 2.8

to plank

1 9.3

to bake

312 1.0

to poach

8 3.9

Surface Forms

plank infinitive

planked past

planked past participle

planking present participle

planks third person singular

Etymology

Plank used for cooking comes from putting food on a wooden board; chefs cook fish or meat on a 'plank' so the wood gives flavor and holds the food while it cooks.