Roasting vs Barbecue - What's the difference?
roasting | barbecue |
The act by which something is roasted.
* 1885 , Henry Marion Howe, Copper smelting (page 15)
A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.
A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.
Meat, especially pork or beef, which has been cooked in such an apparatus (i.e. smoked over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels) and then chopped up or shredded.
(dated) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
* 2000 , Andrew Gerald Gravette, Architectural Heritage of the Caribbean , page 227:
To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
To grill.
As verbs the difference between roasting and barbecue
is that roasting is while barbecue is to cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.As nouns the difference between roasting and barbecue
is that roasting is the act by which something is roasted while barbecue is a fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.As an adjective roasting
is very hot.roasting
English
(wikipedia roasting)Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- These elements are expelled more completely by a large number of comparatively incomplete roastings (alternated, of course, with smeltings) than by a smaller number of extremely thorough roastings
Anagrams
* *barbecue
English
(wikipedia barbecue)Alternative forms
* barbeque * BBQ (informal abbreviation) * bar-be-que, bar-b-que (informal forms based on the abbreviation) * (meat) 'cue, 'que, que (informal shortenings)Noun
(en noun)- We cooked our food on the barbecue .
- We're having a barbecue on Saturday, and you're invited.
- She ordered a plate of barbecue with a side of slaw.
- Drying the coffee beans took place in a barbecue , basically a large, flat platform, where the pulped coffee beans could be laid out and turned as they dried. Barbecues were often walled around and raised above ground level.
