Oven cooking

(R P) said:

Don't post here often but if y'all don't mind I have a question.....

What is [if there is] the real difference between.
Baking,..Roasting,..& Broiling ?

I looked all three up in the dictionary,..
broiling wasn't even listed,..& the other two both said to cook meat in
an oven ??
Thanks,..Ron

One bakes vegetables and roasts meats. There is a bit more to it then
that but I think that is the major difference.

Broiling = grilling. In principle, a broiled steak and one cooked on
a barbeque are just about the same.

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Quoted message said:

Don't post here often but if y'all don't mind I have a question.....

What is [if there is] the real difference between.
Baking,..Roasting,..& Broiling ?

I looked all three up in the dictionary,..
broiling wasn't even listed,..& the other two both said to cook meat in
an oven ??
Thanks,..Ron

Main Entry: broil
Pronunciation: 'broi(-&😉l
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French bruiller to burn, broil,
modification of Latin ustulare to singe, from urere to burn
transitive verb : to cook by direct exposure to radiant heat : GRILL

Dictionaries are not always dependable. The definition above is partially
correct, but it only mentions grilling as an example. In an oven, broiling
refers to using the top heating element to cook food from above. The heating
element remains on at all times, so cooking time is controlled by the
distance from the heat, and how long the food's under the heat.

Baking and broiling are done with bottom heat. I differentiate them based on
the food, since the process is essentially the same. You bake bread, cake &
cookies. You roast meats.

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Anyone else have any other ideas?

kili

At least a million by noon at the latest.

John Kane said:

(R P) said:

Don't post here often but if y'all don't mind I have a
question.....

What is [if there is] the real difference between.
Baking,..Roasting,..& Broiling ?

I looked all three up in the dictionary,..
broiling wasn't even listed,..& the other two both said to cook meat
in an oven ??
Thanks,..Ron

One bakes vegetables and roasts meats. There is a bit more to it then
that but I think that is the major difference.

Broiling = grilling. In principle, a broiled steak and one cooked on
a barbeque are just about the same.

If I may interject here...... if I roast, it's more of a dry thing. I'll
roast a chicken, no cover, just herbs, maybe rubbed, but openly in the oven.
Sometimes, when I bake (can be lasagna, not necessarily veggies) I may cover
the dish with foil for part of the cook, and then uncover to brown. I think
roasting implies a longer cooking time than baking and perhaps at a lower
temperature.

Broiling, yes, high heat, the equivalent to grilling - or as best as you can
get using an oven.

Anyone else have any other ideas?

kili

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Quoted message said:

(R P) said:

Don't post here often but if y'all don't mind I have a question.....

What is [if there is] the real difference between.
Baking,..Roasting,..& Broiling ?

I looked all three up in the dictionary,..
broiling wasn't even listed,..& the other two both said to cook meat in
an oven ??
Thanks,..Ron

One bakes vegetables and roasts meats. There is a bit more to it then
that but I think that is the major difference.

Broiling = grilling. In principle, a broiled steak and one cooked on
a barbeque are just about the same.

You can start on the RFC website. Go to http://www.recfoodcooking.com and
scroll down to other stuff section. Click on the Charts and Reference
Guides from www.bettycrocker.com link. The info is str8 forward.

Michael

--
“The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in
a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, "Could I get you
your check?" and we answered, "How about the menu first?"”
~Erma Bombeck

"R P" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

What is [if there is] the real difference between.
Baking,..Roasting,..& Broiling ?

I looked all three up in the dictionary,..
broiling wasn't even listed,..& the other two both said to cook meat in
an oven ??

Broiling is done under the heat. Your broiler will be
either in the top of your oven or underneath in a drawer.

Grilling is done over the heat. Like on a grill. Heh.

Baking, roasting? Whatever, you put it in a hot oven.

nancy

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Quoted message said:

Don't post here often but if y'all don't mind I have a question.....

What is [if there is] the real difference between.
Baking,..Roasting,..& Broiling ?

Quoted message said:

I looked all three up in the dictionary,..
broiling wasn't even listed,..& the other two both said to cook meat in
an oven ??
Thanks,..Ron

Baking and roasting are the same process the terms are generally changed based
upon the food being cooked.

Broiling is similar to Grilling. When grilling the heat source is below the
food, When one broils the heat source is above the food.

Dimitri

Michael 'Dog3' Lonergan said:

You can start on the RFC website. Go to
http://www.recfoodcooking.com and scroll down to other stuff section.
Click on the Charts and Reference Guides from www.bettycrocker.com
link. The info is str8 forward.

Michael

Hey, Michael! I gave Chatty Cathy those charts for the rfc site, since
I found the information so helpful. My cup floweth over to think that
someone's read them. :-D

Dora

Nancy Young said:

Broiling is done under the heat. Your broiler will be
either in the top of your oven or underneath in a drawer.

Grilling is done over the heat. Like on a grill. Heh.

Well, in the UK they call broiling grilling, even though the food is
under the element. Confusing, eh?

Quoted message said:

Baking, roasting? Whatever, you put it in a hot oven.

Yep - cakes, pies, bread, fish, etc. - baking
vegetables and meats - roasting

Kind of silly, when you think about it, since they're all cooked in the
oven over the bottom element.

Dora

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nancy

Nancy Young wrote on 06 Apr 2007 in rec.food.cooking

Quoted message said:

Grilling is done over the heat. Like on a grill. Heh.

Baking, roasting? Whatever, you put it in a hot oven.

nancy

broiling involves only one element which doesn't shut off so the temp is
always rising. And the food item is reasonably close to that said element.

roasting is done at an even or constant temp with possibly 2 elements (top
and bottom) operating, in a pan with pan drippings. So you can baste with
pan juices if you so desire. Crispness is desired.

baking is done at an even temp with possibly 2 elements (top and bottom).
No pan drippings are involved. Crispness is not necessarily wanted.

Examples: you can roast a turkey or a potato, you can bake some bread or a
casserole, You can broil a steak or a tomato.

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Michael 'Dog3' Lonergan said:

You can start on the RFC website. Go to
http://www.recfoodcooking.com and scroll down to other stuff section.
Click on the Charts and Reference Guides from www.bettycrocker.com
link. The info is str8 forward.

Michael

Hey, Michael! I gave Chatty Cathy those charts for the rfc site, since
I found the information so helpful. My cup floweth over to think that
someone's read them. :-D

Dora

I'm a reader. I read everything which exasperates Steven to no end.
Thanks for the charts BTW. I've used 'em a couple of times. It's handier
than searching Google and sifting through dozens of sites to get a simple
answer to a simple question.

Michael
--
“The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in
a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, "Could I get you
your check?" and we answered, "How about the menu first?"”
~Erma Bombeck

R P said:

Don't post here often but if y'all don't mind I have a question.....

What is [if there is] the real difference between.
Baking,..Roasting,..& Broiling ?

I looked all three up in the dictionary,..
broiling wasn't even listed,..& the other two both said to cook meat in
an oven ??
Thanks,..Ron

I have posted the following quite a few times over the years. For the
broiling and roasting entries see the rec.food.cooking FAQ. As to the
difference between baking and roasting, it is nowadays mostly semantic,
except that each term is often used in relation to certain kinds of
food. However, traditionally, 'roasting' meant a particular type of
cooking with an open flame. I'm not aware of 'baking' ever having been
used in this sense.

Victor

Michael 'Dog3' Lonergan said:

I read everything which exasperates Steven to no end.

You should try reading things that don't exasperate him.

Brian (sorry, sorry, sorry)

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If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)

JoeSpareBedroom said:

R P said:

Don't post here often but if y'all don't mind I have a question.....

Quoted message said:

What is [if there is] the real difference between.
Baking,..Roasting,..& Broiling ?

Quoted message said:

I looked all three up in the dictionary,..
broiling wasn't even listed,..& the other two both said to cook meat in
an oven ??

broil
transitive verb : to cook by direct exposure to radiant heat : GRILL

Dictionaries are not always dependable. The definition above is partially
correct, but it only mentions grilling as an example. In an oven, broiling
refers to using the top heating element to cook food from above. The heating
element remains on at all times, so cooking time is controlled by the
distance from the heat, and how long the food's under the heat.

Baking and broiling are done with bottom heat. I differentiate them basedon
the food, since the process is essentially the same. You bake bread, cake&
cookies. You roast meats.

It's obvious that you don't know how to use a dictionary... the
alphabetical arrangement even a monkey can fathom, but with all the
rest you fail, miserably... obviously because you are somewhat
functionally illiterate. And when will you learn to trim posts and
cease to be a newbie (including attributions - I'm becoming jaded
having to do your work, etal.). "Broiling isn't listed", what a
moroon! Sheesh... I know without the slightest doubt that you never
passed your GED. And I'm sure you never heard of a thesaurus.

Sheldon

Sheldon said:

It's obvious that you don't know how to use a dictionary... the
alphabetical arrangement even a monkey can fathom, but with all the
rest you fail, miserably... obviously because you are somewhat
functionally illiterate. And when will you learn to trim posts and
cease to be a newbie (including attributions - I'm becoming jaded
having to do your work, etal.). "Broiling isn't listed", what a
moroon! Sheesh... I know without the slightest doubt that you never
passed your GED. And I'm sure you never heard of a thesaurus.

Don't trust those online dictionaries too much. I just looked up "broast"
the Urban Dictionary site and it said that it was a combination of
broiling and roasting, and made no reference to the patented process of
deep frying under pressure.

(R P) said:

Don't post here often but if y'all don't mind I have a question.....

What is [if there is] the real difference between.
Baking,..Roasting,..& Broiling ?

I looked all three up in the dictionary,..
broiling wasn't even listed,..& the other two both said to cook meat in
an oven ??

Baking and roasting are both dry heat methods. The difference in
English is due to linguistic origins from old French or German (that's
why we "bake" ham but "roast" beef and pork, after that it gets
messy). I used to have an journal article that explained this with
authority but lost it years ago.

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

Mr Libido Incognito said:

roasting is done at an even or constant temp with possibly 2 elements
(top and bottom) operating, in a pan with pan drippings. So you can
baste with pan juices if you so desire. Crispness is desired.

baking is done at an even temp with possibly 2 elements (top and
bottom). No pan drippings are involved. Crispness is not necessarily
wanted.

Oven manufacture varies, though. The only time my oven uses the top
and bottom elements simultaneously is when it's preheating. Once the
pre-set temperature is reached the top element shuts off.

JoeSpareBedroom said:

Main Entry: broil
Pronunciation: 'broi(-&😉l
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French bruiller to burn, broil,
modification of Latin ustulare to singe, from urere to burn
transitive verb : to cook by direct exposure to radiant heat : GRILL

Quoted message said:

Dictionaries are not always dependable. The definition above is partially
correct, but it only mentions grilling as an example. In an oven, broiling
refers to using the top heating element to cook food from above. The heating
element remains on at all times, so cooking time is controlled by the
distance from the heat, and how long the food's under the heat.

These two definition jibe, because if the heating element is
above what's being cooked, you're getting mainly radiant heat
(convective heat moves up from the element, not down).

Steve

Dave Smith said:

Sheldon said:

It's obvious that you don't know how to use a dictionary... the
alphabetical arrangement even a monkey can fathom, but with all the
rest you fail, miserably... obviously because you are somewhat
functionally illiterate.  And when will you learn to trim posts and
cease to be a newbie (including attributions - I'm becoming jaded
having to do your work, etal.).  "Broiling isn't listed", what a
moroon!  Sheesh... I know without the slightest doubt that you never
passed your GED.  And I'm sure you never heard of a thesaurus.

Don't trust those online dictionaries too much. I just looked up "broast"
the Urban Dictionary site  and it said that it was a combination of
broiling and roasting, and made no reference to the patented process of
deep frying under pressure.

A dictionary is not intended to be used as an encyclopedia.

"Broast" probably wouldn't appear in most lexicons, it's not an
acceptable word, but more at process. Perhaps one day Broast will
earn a place in lexicons, when common usage dictates, when pigs fly.

http://whatscookingamerica.net/Q-A/Broasting.htm

Sheldon