Bake vs Prebake - What's the difference?
bake | prebake |
(transitive, or, intransitive) To cook (something) in an oven.
To dry by heat.
To prepare food by baking it.
To be baked to heating or drying.
(figuratively) To be hot.
(slang) To smoke marijuana.
To harden by cold.
* Shakespeare:
* Spenser:
(UK, NZ) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
* 2009 , Rosalind Peters, Kate Pankhurst, Clive Boursnell, Midnight Feast Magic: Sleepover Fun and Food
The act of cooking food by baking.
To bake (a crust, an industrial compound, etc.) in advance.
A technology for producing aluminium in which the anodes are baked in large gas-fired ovens before being lowered into the electrolytic solution.
In transitive terms the difference between bake and prebake
is that bake is to dry by heat while prebake is to bake (a crust, an industrial compound, etc.) in advance.As verbs the difference between bake and prebake
is that bake is to cook (something) in an oven while prebake is to bake (a crust, an industrial compound, etc.) in advance.As nouns the difference between bake and prebake
is that bake is any of various baked dishes resembling casserole while prebake is a technology for producing aluminium in which the anodes are baked in large gas-fired ovens before being lowered into the electrolytic solution.bake
English
Verb
(bak)- I baked a delicious cherry pie.
- She's been baking all day to prepare for the dinner.
- The clay baked in the sun.
- It is baking in the greenhouse.
- I'm baking after that workout in the gym.
- The earth is baked with frost.
- They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone.
Usage notes
In the dialects of northern England, the simple past book'' and past participle ''baken are sometimes encountered.Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* baked * bake-off * baking * in a bake * half-bakedNoun
(en noun)- If you happen to have small, heat-proof glass or ceramic pots in your kitchen (known as ramekins) then you can make this very easy pasta bake in fun-size, individual portions.