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| baker |
a portable oven. [1/2 definitions] |
| broil1 |
to cook at high temperature with heat coming from one direction, as on a grill or in an oven. [1/6 definitions] |
| Dutch oven |
a brick oven with preheated walls for cooking. [1/3 definitions] |
| firebrick |
a heat-resistant brick, esp. one used in the construction of a furnace, oven, or the like. |
| kiln |
a furnace or oven for burning lime, hardening pottery or brick, drying lumber, or the like. [1/2 definitions] |
| lobster thermidor |
lobster cooked with mushrooms and cheese in a cream sauce, replaced in the shell, and browned in an oven. |
| microwave |
a microwave oven. [1/2 definitions] |
| microwave oven |
an oven that cooks or heats food or beverages quickly using high-frequency electromagnetic radiation. |
| oven glove |
(chiefly British) a padded glove or mitten used to handle cooking utensils and dishes when they are too hot to touch with bare hands; oven mitt. |
| peel2 |
a spadelike instrument with a long handle used for putting goods to be baked into an oven, or for removing them again. |
| potpie |
a pie made with meat or poultry, vegetables, and sauce, topped with a single pastry crust and baked in a deep oven dish. |
| quiche |
an unsweetened pastry shell filled with custard, cheese, and one or two other ingredients, such as ham or spinach, usu. served hot from the oven. |
| range |
a cooking stove with burners and an oven. [1/20 definitions] |
| roast |
to cook or bake (meat) with dry heat, as in an oven or over an open fire. [1/12 definitions] |
| toast1 |
bread that has been sliced and browned in an oven, toaster, or the like. [1/4 definitions] |
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