broiling
Cooking with overhead heat
Broiling is cooking with intense direct heat from above, as in an oven's broiler setting.
The word also describes oppressively hot weather: We sat through a broiling afternoon without air conditioning.
As the present participle of broil, it functions as both verb form and adjective.
Cooking on metal grates
- barbecueSlow-cook over coals
- charBurn without destroying
- roastDry-heat cooking method
- ovenEnclosed cooking chamber
flame · grate · heat · tongs · marinate · glaze · caramelization · charring
Extremely hot, uncomfortably so
- scorchingExtremely hot, burning
- blisteringExtremely intense or severe
- bakingCooking with dry heat
- sizzlingHissing from heat
stifling · oppressive · heatwave · sultry · torrid · humid · suffocating · burning
grilling
Cooking on metal grates
oven · flame · grate · heat · tongs · marinate · glaze · caramelization · charring · smoke
sweltering
Extremely hot, uncomfortably so
- scorchingExtremely hot, burning
- blisteringExtremely intense or severe
- bakingCooking with dry heat
sizzling · stifling · oppressive · heatwave · sultry · torrid · humid · suffocating · burning · fiery
fuming
Extremely angry, visibly so
- seethingIntensely, quietly enraged
- lividExtremely angry or discolored
- enragedExtremely, intensely provoked
incensed · infuriated · boiling · simmering · rage · fury · wrath · temper · smoldering · steaming
- cooking techniquessear, simmering, boiling, frying, saute
- cookingbaking, chop, boiling, dice, mince
- temperaturehot, cold, warm, cool, freezing
- cooking termsbaste, baking, blanch, braise, roasting
- beef preparationgrilling, roasting, braising, stewing, pan-frying
- cooking methodsfrying, boiling, baking, grilling, roasting