water baths
Gentle cooking containers
A water bath is a container of heated water used to warm or cook something gently and evenly.
In cooking, delicate preparations like custards and cheesecakes bake in a water bath to prevent cracking: Set the ramekins in a water bath.
In laboratories, water baths maintain precise temperatures for samples or chemical reactions.
- heatingRaising temperature artificially
- temperatureMeasured heat intensity
- submersionBeing entirely underwater
- gentle heatLow sustained temperature
- thermalPertaining to warmth
laboratory · lab equipment · cheese making · liquid · hydrotherapy · sterilization · bain-marie · custards · slow cooking · food preservation · sous vide · incubation · calorimeters · tissue culture · thermometer · bioreactors · double boiler · canning
water bathsopen flame
Uncovered burning source
Bunsen burner · direct heat · hot plate · blowtorch · microwave heating
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