Blanch vs Simmer - What's the difference?
blanch | simmer |
To grow or become white
To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach
(cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices
To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together
To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding
To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
(figuratively) To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate
* Tillotson
To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
* Francis Bacon
* Reliq. Wot
To cause to turn aside or back.
To use evasion.
* Francis Bacon
The state or process of simmering.
To cook or undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.
To cause to cook or to cause to undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.
As verbs the difference between blanch and simmer
is that blanch is to grow or become white while simmer is to cook or undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.As a proper noun Blanch
is {{given name|female|from=French}}, a less common spelling of Blanche.As a noun simmer is
the state or process of simmering.blanch
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) blanchirVerb
(es)- his cheek blanched with fear
- the rose blanches in the sun
- to blanch linen
- age has blanched his hair
- to blanch almonds
- Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things.
Etymology 2
Variant of blenchVerb
(es)- Ifs and ands to qualify the words of treason, whereby every man might express his malice and blanch his danger.
- I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way.
- to blanch a deer
- Books will speak plain, when counsellors blanch .
simmer
English
Alternative forms
* simber (obsolete)Noun
(-)- The kettle was kept on the simmer .
Verb
- The soup simmered on the stove.
- Simmer the soup for five minutes, then serve.