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Cooking by aiming heat downward, because your oven secretly contains the sun's angry cousin
means To cook food with intense direct heat from above, as in an oven's top element or under a flame.
from From Old French 'bruler' (to burn) — though the path is tangled, and some trace it to a Latin verb for burning, possibly 'ustulare.' The same family blazes through related senses of scorching and roasting, and the word's heat eventually leapt into figurative use too: a 'broil' once meant a noisy quarrel, people getting hot under the collar long before ovens did.
- direction
- Heat blasts from above, not below like baking
- speed
- Crisps tops in minutes, faster than most patience
- name origin
- From Old French bruller, meaning to burn
- distant cousin
- Embroil shares the same fiery linguistic root
- broiler vs grill
- Same physics, opposite flame direction entirely
broiler chicken — poultry breed developed for meat production, comprising 99% of us chicken meat consumption
broil king bbq grills — canadian outdoor grill manufacturer founded 1986, popular high-end broiler brand