Bake vs. Boil — What's the Difference?

Cook (food) by dry heat without direct exposure to a flame, typically in an oven

A boil, also called a furuncle, is a deep folliculitis, infection of the hair follicle. It is most commonly caused by infection by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, resulting in a painful swollen area on the skin caused by an accumulation of pus and dead tissue.

(of the sun or other agency) subject (something) to dry heat, especially so as to harden it

(with reference to a liquid) reach or cause to reach the temperature at which it bubbles and turns to vapour

A dish consisting of a mixture of ingredients cooked in an oven

(with reference to food) cook or be cooked by immersing in boiling water or stock

A person's mouth

(of the sea or clouds) be turbulent and stormy

To cook (food) with dry heat, especially in an oven.

The temperature at which a liquid bubbles and turns to vapour

To harden or dry (something) by subjecting to heat in or as if in an oven

A casual outdoor meal at which shellfish is prepared by boiling

To cook food with dry heat.

An inflamed pus-filled swelling on the skin, caused typically by the infection of a hair follicle.

To become hardened or dry by or as if by having been subjected to the heat of an oven.

To change from a liquid to a vapor by the application of heat

The act or process of baking.

To reach the boiling point.

An amount baked.

To undergo the action of boiling, especially in being cooked.

A social gathering at which food is cooked by baking and then served.

To be in a state of agitation; seethe

To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).

To be stirred up or greatly excited, especially in anger

To be cooked in an oven.

To vaporize (a liquid) by the application of heat.

(intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.

To heat to the boiling point.

(transitive) To dry by heat.

To cook or clean by boiling.

To be hot.

To separate by evaporation in the process of boiling

To cause to be hot.

The condition or act of boiling.

To smoke marijuana.

Lower Southern US A picnic featuring shrimp, crab, or crayfish boiled in large pots with spices, and then shelled and eaten by hand.

To harden by cold.

An agitated, swirling, roiling mass of liquid

To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.

A painful, circumscribed pus-filled inflammation of the skin and subcutaneous tissue usually caused by a local staphylococcal infection. Also called furuncle.

To incorporate into something greater.

A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.

The act of cooking food by baking.

The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point.

Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.

A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.

Any food item that is baked.

The collective noun for a group of hawks.

(US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.

A bubbling.

A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten in Barbados and sometimes elsewhere, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or in some places sometimes roasted).

To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.

To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.

(ambitransitive) To cook in boiling water.

To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.

To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.

To harden by cold.

To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.

To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes.

To be uncomfortably hot.

To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.

To feel uncomfortably hot.

The process, or result, of baking.

(transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.

Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven;

(obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.

Prepare with dry heat in an oven;

To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.

Heat by a natural force;

To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.

To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.

To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.

To pass from a liquid to an aëriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.

To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.

To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.

To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.

To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.

To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes.

To steep or soak in warm water.

Act or state of boiling.

A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core.

A painful sore with a hard pus-filled core

The temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level;

Come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor;

Cook in boiling liquid;

Bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point;

Be agitated;

Be in an agitated emotional state;