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Roast vs Broiled - What's the difference?

roast | broiled |

As verbs the difference between roast and broiled

is that roast is (transitive|or|intransitive|or|ergative) to cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance while broiled is (broil).

As a noun roast

is a cut of meat suited to roasting.

As an adjective roast

is having been cooked by roasting.

roast

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (transitive, or, intransitive, or, ergative) To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
    • to roast meat on a spit
  • To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
    • to roast a potato in ashes
  • * Francis Bacon
    • In eggs boiled and roasted there is scarce difference to be discerned.
  • (transitive, or, intransitive, or, ergative) To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat
    • Coffee beans need roasting before use.
    to roast chestnuts or peanuts
  • To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
  • * Shakespeare
    • roasted in wrath and fire
  • (figuratively) To admonish someone vigorously
    • I’m late home for the fourth time this week; my mate will really roast me this time.
  • (figuratively) To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
    • The class clown enjoys being roasted by mates as well as staff.
  • (metalworking) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.

    • Coordinate terms

    * (to cook) bake, boil, broil, fry, grill, poach, toast

    Derived terms

    * roasting ear * roasting jack

    Noun

  • (en noun)
  • A cut of meat suited to roasting
  • A meal consisting of roast foods.
  • The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
    • Dark roast''' means that the coffee bean has been roasted to a higher temperature and for a longer period of time than in light '''roast .
  • (Originally fraternal) A comical event where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.

    • Derived terms

    * nut roast

    Adjective

    (-)
  • having been cooked by roasting
  • (figuratively) subjected to roasting, bantered, severely criticized

    • See also

    * barbecue * chargrill * grill * joint * roasties

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    * English ergative verbs

    broiled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (broil)

    • broil

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) broillen, . (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cook by direct, radiant heat.
  • To expose to great heat.
  • To be exposed to great heat.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Food prepared by broiling.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil
  • (obsolete) to brawl

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
  • * 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, verses 1-2
    • So, I am safe emerged from these broils ! / Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole
  • * Burke
    • 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.
  • * 1840 , Robert Chambers, ?William Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (volume 8, page 382)
    • 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.

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