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Bake vs. Broil — What's the Difference?

Bake vs. Broil — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Bake and Broil

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Bake

Cook (food) by dry heat without direct exposure to a flame, typically in an oven
They bake their own bread and cakes

Broil

Cook (meat or fish) by exposure to direct heat
A broiled sirloin steak
He lightly broiled a wedge of sea bass

Bake

(of the sun or other agency) subject (something) to dry heat, especially so as to harden it
The soil in the desert is baked dry by the fierce heat of the sun

Broil

A quarrel or commotion
The dark interior was a broil of fighting men

Bake

A dish consisting of a mixture of ingredients cooked in an oven
A vegetable bake
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Broil

To cook by direct radiant heat, as over a grill or under an electric element.

Bake

A person's mouth
Shut your bake!

Broil

To expose to great heat.

Bake

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

Broil

To be exposed to great heat.

Bake

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

Broil

To engage in a rowdy argument.

Bake

To cook food with dry heat.

Broil

The act of broiling or the condition of being broiled.

Bake

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

Broil

Food, especially meat, that is broiled.

Bake

The act or process of baking.

Broil

A rowdy argument.

Bake

An amount baked.

Broil

To cook by direct, radiant heat.

Bake

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

Broil

To expose to great heat.

Bake

To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
I baked a delicious cherry pie.
She's been baking all day to prepare for the dinner.
He baked her a cake.

Broil

To be exposed to great heat.

Bake

To be cooked in an oven.
The cake baked at 350°F.

Broil

(transitive) To cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil.

Bake

(intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.
The clay baked in the sun.

Broil

To brawl.

Bake

(transitive) To dry by heat.
They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.

Broil

Food prepared by broiling.

Bake

To be hot.
It is baking in the greenhouse.
I'm baking after that workout in the gym.

Broil

(archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
Come to broils

Bake

To cause to be hot.

Broil

A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.
I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

Bake

To smoke marijuana.

Broil

To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.

Bake

To harden by cold.

Broil

To subject to great (commonly direct) heat.

Bake

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

Broil

To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat.
The planets and comets had been broiling in the sun.

Bake

To incorporate into something greater.

Broil

Cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill)

Bake

The act of cooking food by baking.

Broil

Cook under a broiler;
Broil fish

Bake

Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.

Broil

Heat by a natural force;
The sun broils the valley in the summer

Bake

Any food item that is baked.

Bake

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

Bake

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).

Bake

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.

Bake

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

Bake

To harden by cold.
The earth . . . is baked with frost.
They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone.

Bake

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

Bake

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

Bake

The process, or result, of baking.

Bake

Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven;
Bake the potatoes

Bake

Prepare with dry heat in an oven;
Bake a cake

Bake

Heat by a natural force;
The sun broils the valley in the summer

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