What's the difference between braise and cook?

Braise


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Braize
  • (n.) Alt. of Braize
  • (v. t.) To stew or broil in a covered kettle or pan.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But it includes other delicious things, too: pot-roasted squab, stewed rabbit, braised oxtail.
  • (2) The thick and tender, rope-like tangle of braised, shredded beef in my fat fist of a burrito was excellent.
  • (3) Braise, stirring from time to time, for 20 minutes.
  • (4) Turn the mushrooms and braise them in the chicken stock with thyme and garlic.
  • (5) The recipes veer from the incredibly simple, such as stir-fried potato slithers with chillies to the more elaborate, such as dry-braised fish with pork in spicy sauce.
  • (6) Braised caramelised pork with eggs Braised caramelised pork with eggs.
  • (7) Other methods of cooking, through concerning a more limited number of kinds of vegetables have pointed out that "sauté" brings a higher loss for the vegetables studied; Similar observations can be made for braising and stewing, frying leads to the highest loss reaching--48 p. 100 for chips.
  • (8) The chicken is seared, braised and pulled, then smothered in something called Miami salsa – yoghurt, mint, coriander and a few other ingredients.
  • (9) Whitehorn cooked The Dish - a foolproof combination of braising steak, flour, herbs, tomato paste and vegetables - twice last week, and not one of her guests asked if the hostess couldn't please call up for a takeaway curry.
  • (10) Still a popular tourist destination for its literary connection, the child-friendly Spoon made its own headlines by adding grey squirrel to a menu already resplendent with braised pork leg and organic Arctic char.
  • (11) Braise, uncovered, for another 45 minutes, turning every now and then, to reduce the sauce.
  • (12) Thit kho tàu, or braised pork, is a classic, hearty family dish that's often part of a Tet spread; best spooned over rice and with some kind of pickled veggies to offset the richness.
  • (13) Canny cooks have long known that braising – slow-cooking in a sealed pot with a little liquid – can melt even the toughest of ingredients into tender submission, like the oxtail, squid and dried beans here.
  • (14) Saffron and garlic beans with wine-braised baby leeks Angela Kim's delicate baby leeks combine with the robust flavours of saffron- and garlic-infused beans.
  • (15) 3 Lower the heat, cover, and braise for at least an hour, but the longer the better; 2½ hours if you have time.
  • (16) Muñoz is known for his interpretations of traditional regional cooking, such as the city’s signature dish, perdiz (partridge) braised in wine, but his newer dishes have a surprising lightness of touch.
  • (17) Braised fennel with orange juice and olives leftoverliz's fennel braised with olives and orange juice, here served with barbecued trout, is a flavour sensation.
  • (18) The winning recipe: squid braised in red wine Photograph: Jill Mead for the Guardian Living in Brighton, we have access to many things with scales, shells or tentacles that swim, crawl, drift or slither in the neighbouring ocean.
  • (19) Along with learning to braise, poach, broil and render, I acquired a keener awareness of what might be called “nutritional advantage”.
  • (20) Transfer the chicory cut side up to a 20cm x 30cm baking dish, and off the heat stir the cream into the braising liquid.

Cook


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
  • (v. t.) To throw.
  • (n.) One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.
  • (n.) A fish, the European striped wrasse.
  • (v. t.) To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.
  • (v. t.) To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account.
  • (v. i.) To prepare food for the table.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
  • (2) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
  • (3) At temperatures greater than 150 degrees C the mutagenic activity of the cooked meat increased to reach a maximum at 300 degrees C. In another series of experiments, lamb patties were cooked at 250 degrees C for 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 min.
  • (4) The relation between respiratory illness and the use of gas for cooking was examined from data on 1565 infants born to mothers who were primigravidas living in Dundee in 1980.
  • (5) She followed that with a job at Bibendum – she still talks of Simon Hopkinson, "such an elegant cook, so particular and clean and efficient", with deep reverence – and another at Roscoff in Northern Ireland.
  • (6) He reportedly almost never went out, spending America's 4th of July holiday at home, and cooking steak dinners for one.
  • (7) Illness was also significantly associated with eating lightly cooked eggs (unmatched p = 0.02), but not soft boiled eggs, and precooked hot chicken (matched p = 0.006).
  • (8) For the extreme stenosis (2 and 3 mm) of the lumen the dilatation was first performed by the Grüntzig Catheter and after extension above 5 mm special oesophageal catheters with a balloon of 15 mm diameter (Cook) were used.
  • (9) Add the onion, cook for three minutes, stirring, until softened, then add the wine, sage, lemon peel, lemon juice and 150ml water.
  • (10) It claims that reports of civilians being killed by security forces are fabrications cooked up by activists and the international media, while the official news agency talks constantly about "armed criminal groups" trying to destabilise the country.
  • (11) She wanted to cook the kind of food she had eaten and prepared while living in Italy – grilled meats, bread soups, pasta.
  • (12) Asked whether the US tax code was convoluted and difficult to understand partly because of lobbying by companies including Apple for exemptions, Cook replied: "No doubt."
  • (13) Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, warned Barack Obama in public remarks this month that history had shown “sacrificing our right to privacy can have dire consequences”.
  • (14) Compared to our subjects, Coombs found spouses were either housewives or held lower level jobs rather than demanding careers, and consequently our subjects experienced greater difficulty meeting demands of everyday life (cooking, cleaning, child care).
  • (15) In another experiment the effect of cooking-extrusion on lupine flour (L. albus) was investigated and the chemical composition, protein efficiency ratio, methionine supplementation and digestibility of the protein were measured.
  • (16) In multiple logistic models, accounting for independent effects of age, smoking, pack-years, parents' smoking, socio-economic status, body mass index, significantly increased odds ratios were found in males for the associations of: bottled gas for cooking with cough (1.66) and dyspnoea (1.81); stove for heating with cough (1.44) and phlegm (1.39); stove fuelled by natural gas and fan or stove fuelled other than by natural gas with cough (1.54 and 1.66).
  • (17) The sera were used to type 137 isolates of B. cereus from 34 British and Australian incidents of food poisoning associated with the consumption of cooked rice.
  • (18) Cook was quizzed about the price of the 4S, which was more expensive than the 5C in some markets.
  • (19) At the conclusion of 817 abdominal operations, duplicate swabs were taken from the subcutaneous tissues for microbiological examination; one swab was transported to the laboratory in Stuart's thioglycollate medium and the other immediately incubated in Robertson's cooked meat broth.
  • (20) "There is definitely the possibility of a Sky equivalent [for women]," Cooke said.