What is another word for stewing?

Pronunciation: [stjˈuːɪŋ] (IPA)

Stewing is a cooking method that involves slowly simmering ingredients in a liquid. There are various synonyms for stewing, including braising, slow-cooking, simmering, and casseroles. Braising involves cooking meat in a covered pot with liquid for a long period of time, while slow-cooking involves cooking ingredients in a slow cooker or Dutch oven. Simmering is similar to stewing, but with less liquid and at a lower temperature. Casseroles involve baking ingredients in a covered dish in the oven. These cooking methods are perfect for hearty dishes such as stews, soups, and curries that require a long time to cook and develop rich flavors.

What are the hypernyms for Stewing?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    cooking, Culinary techniques, preparing food.

What are the hyponyms for Stewing?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for stewing (as nouns)

Usage examples for Stewing

Slow frying, which means stewing in melted grease for twenty or thirty minutes, is one of the most effective ways ever invented of spoiling good food and ruining digestion.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson
On the other hand, from the point of view of fuel used, it is the most expensive of all forms of cooking; and unless a fire is being kept up for other purposes, which allows boiling or stewing to go on on the back of the stove as an "extra," without additional expense, careful experiments have shown that the prolonged boiling needed by many of these cheaper and coarser foods, especially such as are recommended by most diet reformers, brings their total cost up to that of bread, milk, eggs, sugar, and the cheaper cuts of meat,-all of which are more wholesome and more appetizing foods.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson
He turned and crashed two of my stewing beakers to the floor and trampled on the mess.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford

Famous quotes with Stewing

  • Wherever I sat — on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok — I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.
    Sylvia Plath
  • Nevertheless, I still wonder. Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket—not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing.
    Samuel R. Delany

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