0 a device or a process for cooking foods that involves putting the food in a container into a pan of hot water:
She placed the souffle dish in a bain-marie and put it in the oven.
Put the gratin dish in a larger, deep-sided oven dish, then fill this with boiling water to halfway up the side of the gratin dish so you have a bain-marie.
Moist air can carry around three times as much heat as dry air, which explains in part why we cook some foods in a bain-marie (that is, in a shallow dish of water in a hot oven).
This is an easy, two-step chocolate sauce that can be made without a bain-marie.
They differ from eggs en cocotte, which are baked in a ramekin sitting in a bain-marie, or water bath.
Initially it was carried out by direct flame but soon the advantages of a bain-marie or steam distillation to obtain a better product became obvious.
This mixture is boiled in a bain-marie, until fluffy.
Baked custards, such as crme caramel, are among the items that need protection from an oven's direct heat, and the "bain-marie" method serves this purpose.
