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toasting

toasting

2 1.0
Cooking bread until it becomes brown and crisp
  • noun
  • /ˈtoʊstɪŋ/
translation icon : tostado
  • The chef demonstrated his skill by toasting spices to enhance their flavors before adding them to the dish.
  • toasting marshmallows
  • toasting bread

And basically they just have to defrost it and give it a final toasting.

Examples

  • I'm going to now, while that's toasting, I'm going to prep all my other stuff, which is not that many things.

  • A quick toasting of bread—a slather of the "tuna" salad on some toast and lunch is done.

    Blog text (22)

  • OK, we're only toasting one slice at a time.

  • So we're just toasting this here on the flames.

  • In the morning, the smell of bread toasting wound its way into our room.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Is it the toasting of the marshmallows that makes the ice cream brown?

    Blog text (12)

  • The delicious aroma filled the kitchen as I was toasting slices of bread for breakfast.

  • She enjoyed toasting marshmallows over the campfire until they turned golden brown.

Synonyms

browning
vstoasting
1 3.3

Cooking food until it turns brown and gets a crisp surface

is specific to bread or similar items rather than food in general

Antonyms

burning
157 1.0

The act of setting something on fire to destroy it

Compounds

toasting fork
1 6.3

A long-handled fork used to toast food like bread over a fire

How Toasted

burning
157 1.0
to char
53 4.6
toasting
2 1.0
browning
1 3.3

Surface Forms

toasting singular
toastings plural

Morphology

toasting = toast (transparent) = toast + ing

A regular verb + -ing nominalization meaning the action or process of toasting (browning) food; the formation and sense are directly predictable from the base verb.

Etymology

Toasting comes from an old Latin word torrere that means 'to roast' or 'dry with heat'. So, to toast bread is to brown and crisp it with heat.