Grilled vs Broiled - What's the difference?
grilled | broiled |
(grill)
Cooked on a grill.
As if cooked on a grill.
Fitted with a grille.
* 1983 , René A Bravmann, African Islam?
(broil)
To cook by direct, radiant heat.
To expose to great heat.
To be exposed to great heat.
(archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, verses 1-2
* Burke
* 1840 , Robert Chambers, ?William Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (volume 8, page 382)
As verbs the difference between grilled and broiled
is that grilled is past tense of grill while broiled is past tense of broil.As an adjective grilled
is cooked on a grill.grilled
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(head)- The meat was grilled as this was considered the healthier option.
- She grilled him over his whereabouts the previous night.
Adjective
(en adjective)- After a day in the sun, he looked more grilled than his hamburger.
Etymology 2
Adjective
(-)- High up, at second-storey level, are small openings cut into the wall and filled with shuttered, grilled windows...
broiled
English
Verb
(head)broil
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) broillen, . (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- So, I am safe emerged from these broils ! / Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole
- I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils , place men in what situation you please.
- Since the provinces declared their independence, broils and squabblings of one sort and another have greatly retarded the advancement which they might otherwise have made.