What's the difference between braise and smother?

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.

Smother


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child.
  • (v. t.) To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick covering, as of ashes, of smoke, or the like; as, to smother a fire.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's displeasure.
  • (v. i.) To be suffocated or stifled.
  • (v. i.) To burn slowly, without sufficient air; to smolder.
  • (v. t.) Stifling smoke; thick dust.
  • (v. t.) A state of suppression.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As attorneys who practice asylum law, we believe deeply in our nation’s obligation to provide real protection to refugees, but the Obama administration’s willful disregard of existing asylum laws and procedures – and its smothering of due process with detention and rapid deportation – is truly appalling.
  • (2) Brad Guzan produced a superb save to deny Ayew, rushing off his line to smother a left-foot shot from six yards out, and 33 seconds later the Swansea forward’s brother had the ball in the net at the other end.
  • (3) Conveniently, it is not far from the Via Algarviana , allowing us to leave the car and hike the stretch to Alte (16km), passing shuttered houses smothered in creepers in old, abandoned villages.
  • (4) Buffon's understudy Marchetti gets down brilliantly to smother the cross.
  • (5) Instead, the least attractive aspects of London 2012, the ZiL lanes and the Visa-only policy and McDonald's and Coca-Cola as purveyors of sustenance to a sporting nation, were smothered not only by the competition but by the ocean of good humour fostered by the joviality of the volunteers, the inspirational architecture and the attention given to the natural landscape (with apologies to those who had to move to make room for it all).
  • (6) Later, when it was realised that pieces of aluminium and magnesium among this waste could catch fire and cause widespread contamination, inert argon gas had to be pumped in to smother potential blazes.
  • (7) Updated at 5.30pm BST 5.13pm BST Game and second set to Roger Federer Rewind the clocks and smother the future , the venerable Roger Federer isn't Wimbledon history yet.
  • (8) Our descent into Delhi was delayed because of fog, we were told, but the nicotine-coloured blanket smothering this dynamic Indian city was a malignant smog.
  • (9) Bayern are braced for their visitors to employ similar tactics to those that deflated Barcelona in their semi-final, a smothering defence and bite on the break game-plan that has drawn local criticism in print from Günter Netzer and Matthias Sammer.
  • (10) The wall of ice that rises behind Sermilik fjord stretches for 1,500 miles (2,400km) from north to south and smothers 80% of this country.
  • (11) The decision by the MP for Mid Bedfordshire to become the first serving MP to take part in the show, which features famous faces performing in stunts that in the past have included being smothered in insects and eating a kangaroo's penis, could keep her from parliamentary and constituency business for a month.
  • (12) Hazard is sent off for kicking the ball under a ballboy attempting to smother the ball rather than return it.
  • (13) The forward bustled in, stealing the ball and holding off the centre-half as he attempted to wrest it back, before ripping a glorious shot from a horribly tight angle into the far top corner as Ben Foster edged out to smother.
  • (14) He's never quite in control, though, and his attempted lift into the net is smothered by the outrushing Ospina.
  • (15) Before he came to the UK, Darius trained in Poland, learning how to perform a cut-throat shave by smothering an inflated balloon in shaving foam and then removing it with a single blade.
  • (16) Sediment can smother seagrasses, which are the key food source of dugongs and sea turtles, and damage corals.
  • (17) White supremacy in America won’t let our black young children be kids, swim or receive congratulations while graduating without having the breath, light and life smothered right out of them.
  • (18) Liverpool had threatened only sporadically, although Kasper Schmeichel did make a decent save to smother Coutinho’s shot.
  • (19) The Quagga mussel ( Dreissena rostriformis bugensis ), which was found in the river Wraysbury on 1 October and can cover boat hulls and smother native mussels to death, is just one of a group of freshwater species that has been spreading westward from the Ponto-Caspian region in south-east Europe in recent years and which risk causing a “meltdown” as they invade Britain.
  • (20) It added: "We have long argued that stamp duty is a tax on aspiration that smothered the natural demand of the market.