What's the difference between braise and sear?

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.

Sear


Definition:

  • (a.) To wither; to dry up.
  • (a.) Alt. of Sere
  • (a.) To burn (the surface of) to dryness and hardness; to cauterize; to expose to a degree of heat such as changes the color or the hardness and texture of the surface; to scorch; to make callous; as, to sear the skin or flesh. Also used figuratively.
  • (n.) The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Just a few months ago, a director-level position job for Sears was floated by me from the department store chain's headquarters in Chicago.
  • (2) They revealed that Lance Corporal Craig Roberts, who died in searing temperatures on the Brecon Beacons, had been about to begin a new post in the office of the education secretary.
  • (3) It feels very much like the work of a cook born in Bordeaux, the place where they like to top their cote de boeuf with bone marrow, and sear it fast so that inside it is still the colour of raging knife cut.
  • (4) A confrontation between French and German passengers appears to resonate with disputes and tensions within the family; archive film shows searing images from the second world war, from Israel and Palestine, from the modern-day Odessa Steps.
  • (5) A Communist party-controlled newspaper has launched a searing attack on Donald Trump after the president-elect threatened a realignment of his country’s policies towards China, warning the US president-elect: “Pride goes before a fall.” The Global Times, a notoriously rambunctious state-run tabloid, was writing after Trump reignited a simmering row with Beijing by suggesting he might recognise Taiwan , which China regards as a breakaway province, unless Beijing agreed a new “deal” with his administration.
  • (6) That searing experience continues to shape the thinking of a generation of policymakers and peacemakers anxious that there should not be "another Rwanda" on their watch.
  • (7) Or take a free elevator ride to the roof of the old Sears Roebuck building ( southsideonlamar.com ) which is now loft housing.
  • (8) Through the searing summer heat, the Mexican immigrant to California’s Central Valley and his family endured a daily routine of collecting water in his pickup truck from an emergency communal tank, washing from buckets and struggling to keep their withering orchard alive while they waited for snow to return to the mountains and begin the cycle of replenishing the aquifer that provides water to almost all the homes in the region.
  • (9) A t the end of the long day's walk under the searing Moroccan sun, across endless expanses of sand, the Berbers slowed their camel and stopped.
  • (10) Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution documents the first months of the uprising, and The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria describes in searing prose her return visits to the “liberated” but bombed and fiercely contested north.
  • (11) First there was the one whipped up by the invasive glare of the TV cameras, zooming in on the respective engagement rings of Sears and Ester Satorova, Berdych’s fiancee.
  • (12) His condemnation of existing arrangements is the most searing criticism from the business establishment since Richard Lambert, then director-general of the Confederation of British Industry, two years ago warned bosses risked being viewed as "aliens [living in] a different galaxy from the rest of the community" because of the ever widening gulf between shopfloor and boardroom wages.
  • (13) The British No1 gestured to his courtside box, where Sears was filmed mouthing what appeared to be the words “fucking have it you Czech flash fuck” apparently in the direction of Berdych’s team.
  • (14) A theoretical analysis of pathway and kinetic cooperatively in this system is presented in the following paper (Sears, D.W., and Beychok, S. (1977), Biochemistry 16 (following paper in this issue)).
  • (15) Perhaps it was the searing heat , or perhaps it was the American magician dangling outside Tower Bridge in a box.
  • (16) Boeing is said to hope that Mr Sears's guilty plea will put an end to the scandal and revive the refuelling contract, which was put on ice by the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld.
  • (17) But first, following the searing criticism he directed at UK Athletics for its “ridiculous and wrong” decision to omit the union flag from the vests to be worn by British athletes , the 28-year-old talks far more personally and bitingly.
  • (18) Republicans stake their claim as Christie stresses credentials at CPAC Read more The 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference was in full swing, and at the end of Thursday afternoon, the crowd got what it had come for, in spades: three searing speeches from the main stage razzing President Barack Obama, damning “radical Islamic terrorism” and celebrating the United States as the best place on Earth in history.
  • (19) Documents found in the rubble of the Tazreen factory showed that garment users supplying goods to Walmart and Sears were using the plant at the time of the fire.
  • (20) Razor-sharp analysis and forensic questioning are her weapons, while jargon-free indignation sears her criticisms on the public mind.