rotisserie

Thân thiện

The rotisserie slowly turns the chicken over the glowing coals.

Definition

Noun: 1. A restaurant specializing in roasted and barbecued meats: A commercial establishment where the primary food offering is meat cooked on a rotating spit or over a barbecue. 2. A cooking appliance with a rotating spit: An oven, broiler, or grill equipped with a motorized rotating rod (spit) on which food, especially meat, is skewered and cooked evenly as it turns.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Restaurant):
  • We went to the new rotisserie for lunch and had the most delicious chicken.
  • This rotisserie is famous for its slow-roasted pork.
• Noun (Appliance):
  • I use my kitchen rotisserie to cook a perfect roast every Sunday.
  • The chicken cooks evenly on the rotisserie because it constantly rotates.

Advanced Usage

• As a modifier: The word "rotisserie" is often used attributively (like an adjective) to describe items related to this style of cooking.
  • rotisserie chicken (a chicken cooked on a rotisserie)
  • rotisserie-style (cooked in a manner that mimics a rotisserie)

Variants and Related Words

• Rotisserie cooking (n.): The method or style of cooking food on a rotating spit.
• Spit (n.): The rotating rod in a rotisserie appliance on which the food is skewered.

Synonyms

• (For the restaurant): Grill house, barbecue restaurant.
• (For the appliance): Rotary oven, turning spit roaster.

Related Phrases

• Rotisserie league: In fantasy sports, a common type of league where teams are ranked based on cumulative statistics across multiple categories, analogous to meat turning on a spit. (This is a specialized, metaphorical use).
  • I'm in first place in my fantasy baseball rotisserie league.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a restaurant that specializes in roasted and barbecued meats
2. an oven or broiler equipped with a rotating spit on which meat cooks as it turns