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baste

[bayst] / beɪst /
VERB
moisten during cooking
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VERB
sew temporarily
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Use the rest of the butter to baste.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2024

You baste every 30 minutes before removing the cheesecloth to cook uncovered to burnish the skin.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2023

Street vendors across East Asia scrunch small pieces of meat onto skewers and baste them over hot coals with a sweet and savory sauce.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 11, 2023

To add to the flavour, Taylor’s preferred liquid to baste the turkey with is coffee, butter and maple syrup.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2022

Before taking up, dredge with flour, and baste two or three times with melted butter.

From The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Myrtle Reed

His wife had already basted the family turkey the night before and now she was cracking 180 eggs with a smile and wearing plastic gloves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2025

When it comes to flavoring and seasoning a steak, I like keeping it minimalist: heavily seasoned with salt and then simply basted with rosemary, garlic and butter.

From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2025

The programme title is a play on Lord Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical The Phantom of the Opera, basted on the novel by Gaston Leroux.

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2025

As a child, Yamamoto said he sometimes snacked on soy-sauce basted grasshoppers.

From Reuters ● Jul. 26, 2023

I place a basted skirt in my basket and Mary snatches it, looks at it closely, rips the stitches out, and tosses it at me again.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

In August 2023, the state blamed another botched satellite launch on an error in the emergency basting system, but said it was "not a big issue".

From BBC ● May 21, 2025

Follow up: If there's barely any liquid at the bottom of my roasting pan, what should I be basting with?

From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024

Then we take a two-step approach to ensure it stays moist, basting it in butter as it cooks and then serving it with a luscious but bright sauce.

From Washington Times ● May 19, 2023

The prince presumably took a break from basting to drop to a knee.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2023

Some grammarians use the analogy of stitching: punctuation as the basting that holds the fabric of language in shape.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author




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