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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