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Grilled vs. Roast — What's the Difference?

Grilled vs. Roast — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Grilled and Roast

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Grilled

To broil on a gridiron.

Roast

Cook (food, especially meat) by prolonged exposure to heat in an oven or over a fire
She was going to roast a leg of mutton for Sunday dinner

Grilled

To torture or afflict as if by broiling.

Roast

Criticize or reprimand severely
If you waste his time he'll roast you

Grilled

(Informal) To question relentlessly; cross-examine.
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Roast

(of food) having been roasted
A plate of cold roast beef

Grilled

To mark or emboss with a gridiron.

Roast

A joint of meat that has been roasted or that is intended for roasting
Carving the Sunday roast

Grilled

A cooking surface of parallel metal bars; a gridiron.

Roast

A banquet at which the guest of honour is subjected to good-natured ridicule.

Grilled

Food cooked by broiling or grilling.

Roast

To cook with dry heat, as in an oven or near hot coals.

Grilled

An informal restaurant or a room in a restaurant where grilled foods are served. Also called grillroom.

Roast

To dry, brown, or parch by exposing to heat.

Grilled

A series of marks grilled or embossed on a surface.

Roast

To expose to great or excessive heat.

Grilled

Variant of grille.

Roast

(Metallurgy) To heat (ores) in a furnace in order to dehydrate, purify, or oxidize before smelting.

Grilled

Simple past tense and past participle of grill
The meat was grilled as this was considered the healthier option.
She grilled him over his whereabouts the previous night.

Roast

To ridicule or criticize harshly.

Grilled

Cooked on a grill.

Roast

To honor at or subject to a roast.

Grilled

As if cooked on a grill.
After a day in the sun, he looked more grilled than his hamburger.

Roast

To cook food in an oven.

Grilled

Fitted with a grille.

Roast

To undergo roasting.

Grilled

Cooked by radiant heat (as over a grill)

Roast

Something roasted.

Grilled

Cooked over an outdoor grill

Roast

A cut of meat suitable or prepared for roasting.

Roast

The act or process of roasting.

Roast

The state of being roasted.

Roast

Harsh ridicule or criticism.

Roast

A facetious tribute, as at a banquet, in which the honoree is alternately praised and insulted.

Roast

Roasted
Roast duck.

Roast

To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
To roast meat on a spit

Roast

To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
To roast a potato in ashes

Roast

To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.
Coffee beans need roasting before use.
To roast chestnuts or peanuts

Roast

To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.

Roast

To admonish someone vigorously.
I'm late home for the fourth time this week; my mate will really roast me this time.

Roast

To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
The class clown enjoys being roasted by mates as well as staff.

Roast

(metalworking) To dissipate the volatile parts of by heat, as ores.

Roast

A cut of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.
Serve the roast with gravy and mashed potatoes.

Roast

A meal consisting of roast foods.
Come over this weekend for Sunday roast.

Roast

The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
Dark roast means that the coffee bean has been roasted to a higher temperature and for a longer period of time than in light roast.

Roast

An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted.

Roast

A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.

Roast

(North America) A social event at which food is roasted and eaten.
On Memorial Day we hosted a wiener roast in the backyard.

Roast

(slang) A creative insult as a response to something someone said.

Roast

Having been cooked by roasting.

Roast

(figuratively) Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized. en

Roast

To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces within; also, to cook in a close oven.

Roast

To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.
In eggs boiled and roasted there is scarce difference to be discerned.

Roast

To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.

Roast

Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.

Roast

To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.

Roast

To banter severely.

Roast

To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.
He could roast, and seethe, and broil, and fry.

Roast

To undergo the process of being roasted.

Roast

That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.
A fat swan loved he best of any roost [roast].

Roast

Roasted; as, roast beef.

Roast

A piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion

Roast

Negative criticism

Roast

Cook with dry heat, usually in an oven;
Roast the turkey

Roast

Subject to laughter or ridicule;
The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house
The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher
His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday

Roast

(of meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven

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