Definition

1. Noun:
   • A special cooking pan for roasting: A piece of kitchen equipment, often a pan with a rack, designed specifically for cooking food (like meat or vegetables) using dry heat in an oven.
   • Flesh of a large young chicken suitable for roasting: A young chicken, typically over 3.5 pounds (about 1.6 kg), that is of the ideal size and age to be cooked by roasting.
   • A cook who roasts food: A person whose job or specialty is to prepare food by roasting it.
   • A harsh or humorous critic: Someone who criticizes others, often in a funny, teasing, or sarcastic way. This usage is common in informal settings like "roast" comedy events.

Examples

• Noun (Cooking Pan):
  • Place the chicken on the rack inside the roaster.
  • She used a heavy-duty roaster for the Thanksgiving turkey.
• Noun (Chicken):
  • The supermarket had fresh roasters on sale for the holiday.
  • A roaster is larger than a broiler chicken.
• Noun (Cook):
  • He worked as the head roaster at the famous restaurant.
• Noun (Critic):
  • At the comedy roast, every roaster delivered hilarious insults about the guest of honor.

Advanced Usage

• "To give as good as one gets": This idiom is often used in the context of a humorous roast, meaning to respond to criticism or insults with equally effective criticism or insults.
  • The honoree was a good sport and gave his roasters as good as he got.

Variants and Related Words

• Roast (verb): To cook food, especially meat, using dry heat in an oven or over a fire.
  • We will roast the vegetables with herbs.
• Roast (noun): 1) A piece of roasted meat. 2) A social event where a person is humorously criticized.
  • The prime rib roast was delicious.
  • He was the guest of honor at a celebrity roast.

Synonyms

• (For cooking pan): Roasting pan, baking pan.
• (For chicken): Roasting chicken.
• (For cook): Chef, cook.
• (For critic): Teaser, mocker, satirist (in a humorous context).

Related Phrases

• Coffee roaster: A machine or device for roasting coffee beans. (This is a specific compound term).
• Industrial roaster: A large oven or furnace used in manufacturing or processing, e.g., for roasting ore or coffee beans in bulk. (This is a specific compound term).

Noun

1. a special cooking pan for roasting
2. flesh of a large young chicken over 3 1/2 lb suitable for roasting
3. a cook who roasts food
4. a harsh or humorous critic (sometimes intended as a facetious compliment)
   • the honoree gave his roasters as good as he got