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ToLiveIsToFly · #1 Post by **ToLiveIsToFly** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:45 pm

Between baking and roasting?

TheConfessor · #2 Post by **TheConfessor** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:48 pm

When you're roasted, people tell jokes about you. When you're baked, people smoke weed with you.

TheGlowingPotato · #3 Post by **TheGlowingPotato** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:54 pm

My buddy the Confessor's a riot, even though he never keeps me properly watered.

I think more people like me baked than roasted, but I don't know what the difference is. I'll bet you couldn't sell a roasted potato, though...

jsuchard · #4 Post by **jsuchard** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:29 pm

If you want a more serious answer:

"Baking" is heating in an oven with the intention of removing water content from the item

"Roasting" is heating in an oven where any removal of water content from the food is a necessary, but mostly undesirable, by-product

...at least, that's how I see it.

peacock2121 · #5 Post by **peacock2121** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:05 am

Baking is what happens when I push to bake button on the oven.

Roasting is what happens when I push the roast button on the oven.

That is really all you need to know.

gsabc · #6 Post by **gsabc** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:28 am

peacock2121 wrote:Baking is what happens when I push to bake button on the oven.

Roasting is what happens when I push the roast button on the oven.

That is really all you need to know.

Reminds me of the description of international cuisine in the Alice's Restaurant cookbook, written by Alice herself. I quote the entire chapter:

"Don't be intimidated by foreign cookery," she writes. "Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good."

Jeemie · #7 Post by **Jeemie** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:37 am

peacock2121 wrote:Baking is what happens when I push to bake button on the oven.

Roasting is what happens when I push the roast button on the oven.

That is really all you need to know.

That reminds me of a funny line in an interview with Patrick Stewart after he became Captain Picard in Star Trek.

Apparently, he was being briefed by the ST production staff as to how the warp drive worked, so he could explain it to the nerds at Star Trek conventions.

After listening to the doubletalk for a while, Stewart said "Nonsense. All I have to do is say 'Engage'".

tlynn78 · #8 Post by **tlynn78** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:49 am

After listening to the doubletalk for a while, Stewart said "Nonsense. All I have to do is say 'Engage'".

Jean Luc is a sexy beast.

Baking and roasting are essentially the same process, but baking normally refers to the dessert or bread stuff and roasting to the meat and potatoes stuff.

If FoodDude would come around, I'm sure he could keep us all more culinarily enriched.

t.

Bob Juch · #9 Post by **Bob Juch** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 3:56 pm

From Wikipedia entry on roasting:

Until the late 19th century, roasting by dry heat in an oven was called baking. Roasting originally meant turning meat or a bird on a spit in front of a fire. It is one of the oldest forms of cooking known.