Baking vs. Broiling — What's the Difference?

Baking is a method of preparing food that uses dry heat, typically in an oven, but can also be done in hot ashes, or on hot stones. The most common baked item is bread but many other types of foods are baked.

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

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

To expose to great heat.

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

To be exposed to great heat.

To cook food with dry heat.

To engage in a rowdy argument.

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

The act of broiling or the condition of being broiled.

The act or process of baking.

Food, especially meat, that is broiled.

An amount baked.

A rowdy argument.

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

Very hot.

Present participle of bake.

A food prepared by broiling.

That bakes.

Gerund of broil: the act of broiling.

(figuratively) Of a person, an object, or the weather: very hot; boiling, broiling, roasting.

Present participle of broil

An action in which something is baked.

Excessively hot; as, a broiling sun.

The way in which something is baked.

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

(countable) The production of a batch of baked product.

The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.

The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread.

Making bread or cake or pastry etc.

Cooking by dry heat in an oven

As hot as if in an oven