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controlled fire applied to flour until chemistry tastes like comfort.
means To cook food, especially dough or batter, with dry heat in an oven until it sets, browns, and firms up.
from From Old English 'bacan,' a word with deep Germanic roots — a cousin of German 'backen' and possibly related, far back, to a Greek word for roasting. It's one of those plain, ancient kitchen verbs that has stayed remarkably steady for over a thousand years; people have been 'baking' since long before they spelled it that way.
- heat origin
- Old English bacan, baking predates written language
- maillard magic
- browning is amino acids and sugars rearranging at 280F
- slang twist
- to bake also means overheated or stoned
- rise mechanics
- steam and gas inflate dough before crust locks it
great british bake off — tv competition where contestants compete in timed baking challenges, started 2010
pillsbury bake-off — annual cooking competition in las vegas, running since 1949 with $1 million grand prize
baked alaska — ice cream cake covered in meringue and torched, named after alaska's 1959 statehood