0 to pour hot fat and liquid over meat while it is cooking: --
1 → tack : --
Baste the seams.
2 to put fat or meat juices on food, esp. meat, while it cooks: --
These stitches are anchored on each end in a manner that facilitates later removal and are analogous to basting stitches.
From there, the master cook generously bastes the marinade on the inside of the fish with a brush.
Fabric is then basted to the paper shape.
Once seam allowances are pinned or basted, they are often pressed flat with an iron before sewing the final seam.
Fabric is evenly gathered using two or more lengths of basting stitches, and the top of each pleat is whipstitched onto the waistband or armscye.
If it is difficult to turn the sushi upside-down, one can baste the sushi in soy sauce using "gari" (sliced ginger) as a brush.
During roasting, meats and vegetables are frequently basted on the surface with butter, lard, or oil to reduce the loss of moisture by evaporation.
The grilled chicken breast was then basted with a brushing of melted butter.
