What does searing mean?

Definitions for searing
sear·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. searingadjective

    severely critical

Wiktionary

  1. searingnoun

    action of the verb to sear

  2. searingnoun

    cooking food quickly at high temperature

  3. searingadjective

    very hot; blistering or boiling

  4. searingadjective

    having a sensation of intense sudden heat

Wikipedia

  1. Searing

    Searing (or pan searing) is a technique used in grilling, baking, braising, roasting, sautéing, etc., in which the surface of the food (usually meat such as beef, poultry, pork, seafood) is cooked at high temperature until a browned crust forms. Similar techniques, browning and blackening, are typically used to sear all sides of a particular piece of meat, fish, poultry, etc. before finishing it in the oven. To obtain the desired brown or black crust, the meat surface must exceed 150 °C (300 °F), so searing requires the meat surface be free of water, which boils at around 100 °C (212 °F).Although often said to "lock in the moisture" or "seal in the juices", in fact, searing results in a greater loss of moisture than cooking to the same internal temperature without searing. Nonetheless, it remains an essential technique in cooking meat for several reasons: The browning creates desirable flavors through the Maillard reaction. The appearance of the food is usually improved with a well-browned crust. The contrast in taste and texture between the crust and the interior makes the food more interesting.Searing does not cause caramelization, which affects only sugars, or simple carbohydrates; the Maillard reaction involves reactions between amino acids and some sugars.Typically in grilling, the food will be seared over very high heat and then moved to a lower-temperature area of the grill to finish cooking. In braising, the seared surface flavors and colors the cooking liquid.

ChatGPT

  1. searing

    Searing is a cooking technique where the surface of food, usually meat or seafood, is cooked at high temperature until a caramelized crust forms. It involves intense heat to brown or char the surface of the food while the inside remains mostly uncooked. In a broader context, searing can also refer to very intense heat or burning sensation.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Searing

    of Sear

Wikidata

  1. Searing

    Searing is a technique used in grilling, baking, braising, roasting, sautéing, etc., in which the surface of the food is cooked at high temperature so a caramelized crust forms. Similar techniques, browning and blackening, are typically used to sear all sides of a particular piece of meat, fish, poultry, etc. before finishing it in the oven. To obtain the desired brown or black crust, the meat surface must exceed 150 °C, so searing requires the meat surface be free of water, which boils at around 100 °C. Although often said to "lock in the moisture" or "seal in the juices", searing has been demonstrated to result in a greater net loss of moisture versus cooking to the same internal temperature without first searing. Nonetheless, it remains an essential technique in cooking meat for several reasons: ⁕The browning creates desirable flavors through caramelization and the Maillard reaction. ⁕The appearance of the food is usually improved with a well-browned crust. ⁕The contrast in taste and texture between the crust and the interior makes the food more interesting to the palate. Typically in grilling, the food will be seared over very high heat and then moved to a lower-temperature area of the grill to finish cooking. In braising, the seared surface acts to flavor, color and otherwise enrich the liquid in which the food is being cooked.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SEARING

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Searing is ranked #33036 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Searing surname appeared 693 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Searing.

    95.3% or 661 total occurrences were White.
    2.3% or 16 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.3% or 9 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.7% or 5 total occurrences were Asian.

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Anagrams for searing »

  1. Angries

  2. earings

  3. erasing

  4. gainers

  5. inrages

  6. regains

  7. regians

  8. seringa

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of searing in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of searing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of searing in a Sentence

  1. Riana Elyse Anderson:

    We can read a description of the events. We live in a violent culture, and serving around these clips as entertainment only really makes us more violent. I don’t think the solution is ‘let’s all watch and gawk and stoke our outrage.’ We are outraged enough already without the added trauma of searing these images into our minds, you have to think about the toll that this takes on your humanity.

  2. Michael Novogratz:

    Markets usually end in one super-spike, some searing frenzy of activity.

  3. Seth Moulton:

    They waited for hours in the searing heat until she got so sick she had to go to the hospital and was unable to get through the gate, the Taliban has already come to their home, so they don't want to return home.

  4. The State Department spokesman:

    They are searing, they are painful, they are difficult to see, they are difficult to watch, we share a common humanity with these Afghans whose desperation, whose fear, whose concern... they wear it on their faces.

  5. Carolyn Fong/Redux for CNN:

    It felt like if someone was throwing marbles at you or something like that … with just little pings, then there’s the, ‘Oh my gosh, this is it.’ There’s a searing burn, and then there’s an ache.

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