bastings

Roasting pan spoonfuls

Bastings are the juices, melted fat, or other liquid spooned or brushed over meat during cooking to keep it moist and add flavor: She collected the bastings from the pan to make gravy.

Bastings can also refer to the long, loose stitches used to temporarily hold fabric in place before permanent sewing—stitches meant to be removed later.

culinary

marinade

Seasoned steeping liquid

moistening · sauce · gravy · seasoning · herbs · butter · oil · broth · tenderize · browning

sewing

tacking

Angled sailing maneuver

dressmaking · tailoring · hemming · alterations · muslin · toile · ease · removal · assembly · couture

quilting

layering

Forming successive strata

smoothing · piecing · blocks · topstitching · quilts

Opposites
moisture treatment in cooking

bastingsdrying

Moisture removal process

desiccating · dehydrating · searing · broiling · dry roasting

cooking method directness

bastingsmarinating

Soaking food in flavored liquid

brining · soaking · immersing · submerging · poaching

sewing stitch permanence

bastingshemming

Sewing a fabric edge

topstitching · backstitching · seaming · lockstitching

Phrases
Family

basting

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G