Blanch vs Poach - What's the difference?
blanch | poach |
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
To cook something in simmering water.
* {{quote-book, year=1931, author=
, title=Death Walks in Eastrepps
, chapter=1/1 To be cooked in simmering water
* Francis Bacon
To become soft or muddy.
* Mortimer
To make soft or muddy.
(obsolete) To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish.
(obsolete) To force, drive, or plunge into anything.
* Sir W. Temple
(obsolete) To begin and not complete.
(intransitive) To take game or fish illegally.
(intransitive) To take anything illegally or unfairly.
(intransitive) To cause an employee or customer to switch from a competing company to your own company.
As verbs the difference between blanch and poach
is that blanch is to grow or become white while poach is to cook something in simmering water.As a proper noun Blanch
is {{given name|female|from=French}}, a less common spelling of Blanche.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 .
poach
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(es)citation, passage=Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car. Mulligatawny soup, poached turbot, roast leg of lamb—the usual railway dinner.}}
- The white of an egg with spirit of wine, doth bake the egg into clots, as if it began to poach .
- Chalky and clay lands chap in summer, and poach in winter.
- Cattle coming to drink had punched and poached the river bank into a mess of mud.
- (Tennyson)
- (Carew)
- his horse poaching one of his legs into some hollow ground
- (Francis Bacon)