Rotisserie vs. Grill — What's the Difference?

Rotisserie, also known as spit-roasting, is a style of roasting where meat is skewered on a spit – a long solid rod used to hold food while it is being cooked over a fire in a fireplace or over a campfire, or roasted in an oven. This method is generally used for cooking large joints of meat or entire animals, such as pigs or turkeys.

To broil on a gridiron.

A cooking device equipped with a rotating spit on which meat or other food is roasted.

To torture or afflict as if by broiling.

A shop or restaurant where meats are roasted to order.

(Informal) To question relentlessly; cross-examine.

A cooking device with which food is roasted on a rotating spit.

To mark or emboss with a gridiron.

A shop or restaurant selling food cooked in this manner.

A cooking surface of parallel metal bars; a gridiron.

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Food cooked by broiling or grilling.

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

(transitive) To cook on a rotisserie.

A series of marks grilled or embossed on a surface.

An oven or broiler equipped with a rotating spit on which meat cooks as it turns

Variant of grille.

A restaurant that specializes in roasted and barbecued meats

A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.

The criss-cross pieces that separate panes of glass in a window.

On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.

(UK) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English

(US) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative and convective heat and a means of holding food above it; a barbecue.

Food (designed to be) cooked on a grill.

A grillroom; a restaurant serving grilled food.

(colloquial) A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth.

The front teeth regarded collectively.

Deliberate misspelling of girl

(obsolete) Harm.

(transitive) To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue.

To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – (US) broil, (cooking) salamander.

To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.

To feel very hot; to swelter.

(transitive) To stamp or mark with a grill.

To make angry; provoke; offend, incite.

To terrify; make tremble.

To tremble; shiver.

To snarl; snap.

(obsolete) Harsh, rough, severe; cruel.

A gridiron.

That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc.

A figure of crossed bars with interstices, such as those sometimes impressed upon postage stamps.

A grillroom.

To broil on a grill or gridiron.

To torment, as if by broiling.

To stamp or mark with a grill.

To undergo the process of being grilled, or broiled; to broil.

A restaurant where food is cooked on a grill

A framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate;

Cook over a grill;