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Ciabatta vs Bagel - What's the difference?

ciabatta | bagel |

As nouns the difference between ciabatta and bagel

is that ciabatta is a broad, flat, white Italian bread while bagel is a toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.

ciabatta

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A broad, flat, white Italian bread.
  • * 2011 , Caroline Bretherton, Illustrated Step-by-Step Baking , page 426
  • Don't waste day-old ciabatta ; slice it and bake the slices to make crostini, which will keep for days and can be used for snacks, canapés, or croutons.

    Coordinate terms

    * (l)

    See also

    * (l) * (Ciabatta) ----

    bagel

    English

    Alternative forms

    * beigel (UK)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
  • (tennis, slang) A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero).
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
  • , date=January 30 , author=Piers Newbery , title=Australian Open: Djokovic too good for Murray in final , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The Scot, who had been close to a two-set deficit in his semi-final against David Ferrer, avoided the dreaded bagel by seeing off a set point at 5-0 down before finally breaking the Djokovic serve to love as he began to go for his shots with the set seemingly gone. }}
  • (slang, among South African Jews) An overly materialistic and excessively groomed young man.
  • See also

    * Beuge * beugen * Beugung * Biege * biegen * Biegung * donut, doughnut * torus, toroid

    References

    * * (wikipedia "bagel")

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