Definition, use, and examples of the word roast.
For further reading, visit Tanorria’s Table to make roasted peaches with mascarpone cheese.
https://www.tanorriastable.com/tanorria-recipes/roasted-peaches
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I’m Jenn de la Vega and this is your culinary word of the day.
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Today’s word is roast.
It is spelled…R-O-A-S-T.
According to Cooking for Engineers,
“Roasting is a cooking method that uses dry heat where hot air envelops the food, cooking it evenly on all sides with temperatures of at least 150 °C (300 °F) from an open flame, oven, or other heat source.
Roasting can enhance flavor through caramelization and Maillard browning on the surface of the food. Roasting uses indirect, diffused heat (as in an oven), and is suitable for slower cooking of meat in a larger, whole piece.”
To add, many other foods can be roasted: hearty vegetables, nuts, fruits, and coffee. Any piece of meat, especially red meat, that has been cooked in this fashion is called a roast.
Roast comes from Middle English rosten, from Anglo-French rostir, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German rōsten to roast.
In Merriam Webster’s usage notes, “You Can Bake That Roast“ they explain,
“Cooking is essentially about transformation, and we also tend to use roast and bake to talk about two different kinds of change: we roast firm, structured things (think carrots and whole chickens) to make them softer and less structured, and we bake soft, unstructured things (think brownie batter and bread dough) to make them firm and more structured.”
Via “Perfecting Roast Chicken, the French Way” in The New Yorker, Bill Buford writes,
“It is often said that the best test of both the professional and the home cook is a roasted chicken, that, if nothing else, a good cook should always be able to serve up a beautiful bird—crispy, appetizingly fragrant, the skin deeply golden, with meat so moist that you’re tempted to tear it off the bone with your fingers.”
For further reading, visit Tanorria’s Table to make roasted peaches with mascarpone cheese.
https://www.tanorriastable.com/tanorria-recipes/roasted-peaches
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