What's the difference between griddle and riddle?

Griddle


Definition:

  • (n.) An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes.
  • (n.) A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Drizzle the tomatoes with two teaspoons of oil, a pinch of salt and some pepper, then griddle for two to three minutes, turning them every minute, until they have black char marks all over and the skin is splitting.
  • (2) Photograph: Tamin Jones for the Guardian 1 Fred's asparagus: heat a griddle pan or frying pan, and cook the asparagus over a low flame .
  • (3) She has posted a recipe on her husband's website and, campaigning with Mitt on St David's Day in Georgia, wore a dress detailed with daffodils and publicly delighted in a 'care package' of the griddle cakes, sent to her by her daughter-in-law, also of Welsh descent.
  • (4) Ten normal, healthy male volunteers were invited to consume a standard cooked meat meal (400-450 g lean beef, cooked as patties on a griddle hotplate) on four separate occasions over a period of 14 months.
  • (5) Mitt's involvement with the cooking appears to have been limited to overseeing a pancake griddle while serving as a device for men everywhere to be patronised.
  • (6) "I guess men think they're cooking or something – they take such pride in how many cakes they can fit on the hot surface, whether they can keep the batter from touching the other pancakes on the griddle, and whether they are just the right shade of golden brown," Ann writes on men and pancakes.
  • (7) Just before you're ready to serve, warm the flatbreads in the oven and place a griddle pan over a high heat.
  • (8) Heat up a griddle or heavy-bottomed frying pan until smoking hot and add the olive oil.
  • (9) Season with salt and pepper and put onto the hot griddle.
  • (10) Pat the steak dry with some kitchen paper and add to the griddle pan.
  • (11) Makes 2 filling wraps courgette 1 extra-virgin olive oil 4 tbsp salt and pepper cloves garlic 3, chopped fresh peas (shelled weight) 130g, but frozen are fine feta cheese 80g Greek yoghurt 80g lemon 1, very finely grated zest and a squeeze of juice spring onion 1, sliced flatbreads 2, the smaller size, white or wholemeal cos lettuce leaf 1 big, or a couple of baby gem leaves mint leaves a handful, washed red chilli, chopped quantity is a personal matter Get your griddle pan good and hot (or you can do it under the grill – timings should be just a little bit longer though).
  • (12) Lay them on the griddle, loosely cover with a piece of foil and cook for 4 minutes before turning them over and doing the same on the other side (you only need to cook them on the two cut sides – no need to griddle the skin side, which tends to burn more easily).
  • (13) Combined incorporation-HPLC experiments show that they are also the precursors for frameshift mutagen formation in the outer surfaces of 200 degrees C griddle-fried ground beef.
  • (14) Tents are pitched in the one-acre vineyard in the castle grounds, which campers have to themselves once the castle has closed for the day, allowing kids to explore while you cook dinner on the cast iron griddle over a fire pit – though you can choose to dine in the restaurant.
  • (15) Place the corn cobs on the griddle pan, let them char for a few minutes on each side, then set aside to cool.
  • (16) Pasta-makers, steamers, woks, griddle pans, copper pots, juicers, egg timers, skillets, multi-mixes, palette knives, frothers, basters and thermometers gathering dust in countless attics.
  • (17) Heat a large frying pan big enough to hold the flat breads or a flat griddle pan.
  • (18) Heat a griddle or frying pan until smoking, add the chorizo and cook for a few minutes a side until it is looking good and crispy.
  • (19) Griddle the arepas for 4-5 minutes on each side, until griddle marked, then place them on a baking sheet and bake in the oven for 20 minutes, or until cooked through.

Riddle


Definition:

  • (n.) A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
  • (n.) A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
  • (v. t.) To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
  • (v. t.) To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
  • (n.) Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
  • (v. t.) To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
  • (v. i.) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The neo-Nazi murder trial revealing Germany's darkest secrets – podcast Read more From the very start, the investigation was riddled with basic errors and faulty assumptions.
  • (2) An IOC member for 23 years he has assidiously collected the leadership of the acronym heavy subsets of that organisation, which may be less riddled with corruption than it was before the Salt Lake City scandal but has swapped outlandish bribes for mountains of bureaucracy.
  • (3) Defence lawyers contended that Saiful's testimony about the alleged sodomy, at a Kuala Lumpur condominium in 2008, was riddled with inconsistencies and the DNA evidence mishandled by investigators.
  • (4) He admitted, however, that he had not been able to find any record of this incident on the police computer and Mr Justice Riddle said that the evidence was "third-hand, anonymous hearsay".
  • (5) From time to time I'd bump into Amy she had good banter so we could chat a bit and have a laugh, she was a character but that world was riddled with half-cut, doped-up chancers, I was one of them, even in early recovery I was kept afloat only by clinging to the bodies of strangers so Winehouse, but for her gentle quirks didn't especially register.
  • (6) Mostly Nick was uncommunicative and occasionally he’d become talkative and you hung on his every word even though, very often, one didn’t know what they meant because he’d talk in riddles.
  • (7) I just think of when I dressed Tom and brushed his hair when his remains were returned to me, his body riddled with bullet holes.
  • (8) These counter-transferential concerns ultimately made the woman's psychological essence an unknowable riddle for Freud.
  • (9) But it was not smart to tell Jemima Khan that the new-look Tory party was "riddled with gays".
  • (10) What they say "You are an enigma wrapped in a riddle nestled in a sesame seed bun of mystery" – Stephen Colbert
  • (11) The response of the authorities is riddled with contradictions.
  • (12) Defence lawyers contended that Saiful's testimony about the alleged sodomy, at a Kuala Lumpur apartment in 2008, was riddled with inconsistencies and the DNA evidence mishandled by investigators.
  • (13) The dog shit – once warm, then frozen hard, and currently melting in the sun into pools of bacteria-riddled goop – and the used condoms and the defrosting vomit, the artifact of what some drunken bros ate on a wild February night preserved for the bottom of my shoe many weeks later.
  • (14) Police have carried out a series of operations against the Russian mafia and its money-laundering operations in Spain's corruption-riddled property sector over the past four years.
  • (15) She’s riddled with guilt now she sees that nothing has changed.
  • (16) The study reveals that while general awareness of AIDS is fairly good, detailed knowledge is riddled with misconceptions and confusion.
  • (17) Quite why Scotland Yard should behave like this remains unproved – another riddle waiting to be solved.
  • (18) Narendra Modi’s India, while growing quickly, remains riddled with uninvestigated corruption scandals .
  • (19) How apt that terms of bigotry should be riddled with class snobbery.
  • (20) The more serious riddle for the government is: how on earth did this policy get through in the first place?

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