0 present participle of baste --
1 to pour hot fat and liquid over meat while it is cooking: --
2 → tack : --
Baste the seams.
The latter is particularly important if using a horizontal spit and coals or an open fire, in which case the drippings can not be salvaged for basting.
Improperly administered basting, however, may actually lead to the very problem it is designed to prevent: the undesired loss of moisture (drying out) of the meat.
Food pyrolysis temperatures are, however, lower than the boiling point of lipids, so pyrolysis occurs when frying in vegetable oil or suet, or basting meat in its own fat.
No basting is usually necessary.
Except for the orange team, each boy held on while the girls did the basting.
The user then cuts away the excess appliqu fabric from around the basting stitch.
He used hardened brushes, sticks, and even basting syringes as paint applicators.
The basting marks are outlined with tailor's chalk.
