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roasting

roasting

21 1.4
Cooking food, especially meat, in dry heat in an oven until brown
  • noun
  • /ˈroʊstɪŋ/
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  • After some time, the wind carried to him the aroma of roasting lamb, with cumin and garlic.

Andres, could you kindly start the process there of roasting that?

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Examples

  • If anyone has any wonderful duck roasting tips, I would love to hear them!

    Blog text (15)
  • There was no black cloud that day, and no stench of iodine and roasting meat.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • For instance, the smell of a roasting apple pie.

  • Consider that coffee beans are green before roasting turns them brown and makes them ready for market.

    Academic text (2003)
  • First, you need a plump roasting chicken.

  • The boys fell to their chores, tantalized by the odors of roasting meat.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • The kitchen smelled of roasting squash, baked apples, and spices.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • The tantalizing aroma of roasting beef drifted to hungry captives across the night air.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • There'll be a warm, fire-lit hearth waiting us, and roasting chestnuts, and a good bone for you, and maybe a nip or two of something invigorating for me.

  • The chef recommends using herbs and olive oil when preparing a roasting chicken.

Synonyms

cooking
vsroasting
504 1.0

Preparing food by heating it, for example by boiling, baking, frying or roasting

is the specific oven method for meat rather than any heating method
baking
vsroasting
141 1.0

The activity of cooking bread, cakes, or pastries in an oven

is for cooking meat by dry oven heat often with added fat

How Cooked

to char
53 4.6
searing
4.1
roasting
21 1.4
to blanch
7 5.1

Surface Forms

roasting singular
roastings plural

Morphology

roasting = roast (transparent) = roast + ing

A straightforward deverbal nominalization: 'roast' (to cook) + '-ing' names the cooking process and is directly inferable by learners who know 'roast'.

Etymology

Roasting comes from the word roast, which originally meant 'to cook near a fire or on a spit'. That's why roasting means cooking food with dry heat until it is brown and tasty.