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Caramel vs Carmelize - What's the difference?

caramel | carmelize |

As a noun caramel

is a smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky.

As a verb carmelize is

alternative form of lang=en.

caramel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky.
  • A (sometimes hardened) piece of this confection.
  • A yellow-brown color.

    • Usage notes

    Both the two syllable and the three syllable pronunciations are very common in all regions of the United States, but the trisyllabic pronunciation is more common than the disyllabic one in the South (excluding western Texas), northern New Jersey, eastern New York and New England, while the disyllabic one is more common than the trisyllabic one in other regions. Dialect Survey map 1], showing that both pronunciations are common in all regions, and [http://spark.rstudio.com/jkatz/SurveyMaps/ map 2, showing which regions the di- and tri-syllabic pronunciations predominate in

    Derived terms

    * caramelise, caramelize

    See also

    * fudge, toffee

    Anagrams

    * * *

    References

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    carmelize

    English

    Verb

    (carmeliz)
  • (US)
  • * 1899 , Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the New York State Agricultural Society , 1899, p. 655:
    • The flour will carmelize' in this way just as the sugar ' carmelizes : that is, a change will take place.
  • * 2002 , Joy Bauer, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Total Nutrition , p. 156:
    • Carmelize onions; in a large nonstick saute pan, heat oil and add onions.
  • * 2010 , Justine Rude, The Washington Post , 9 Aug 2010:
    • Your choice of bulgogi steak, tangy chicken or carmelized tofu with one of two slaws in a corn tortilla and topped with siracha sauce, lime crema, cilantro and sesame seeds.