When it comes to cooking what does "steep" mean?!
When it comes to cooking what does "steep" mean?
Answers:
good answers here but actually its a bit more complex..... when you steep somethin what you are actually doing is one of three things. you either are soaking, cleaning or extracting the essence of the product you are using. You also may steep in any type of liquid.
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im a chef
Soak... like a teabag
i believe soak in hot water, like steep the tea
To let soak in hot liquid.
Basically, when you make tea you steep the teabag in hot water.
allow something to stand in water, like a tea bag.
To place in hot (not boiling) water, as for example to make tea.
not boil, but sit in a steaming condition
Drown it in hot/warm water.
To steep is to allow a substance to stand in liquid below the boiling point, for extraction of flavor, color or other qualities, as tea
to soak something in hot water... usually tea, coffee, herbs, or dry mushrooms
steep 2(stp)
v. steeped, steep・ing, steeps
v.tr.
1. To soak in liquid in order to cleanse, soften, or extract a given property from.
2. To infuse or subject thoroughly to.
3. To make thoroughly wet; saturate.
v.intr.
To undergo a soaking in liquid.
n.
1.
a. The act or process of steeping.
b. The state of being steeped.
2. A liquid, bath, or solution in which something is steeped.
Steep means to leave something in very hot liquid with a lid in order that the essence will permeate the liquid. For example, you "steep" a tea bag in water.
My guess would be the same thing as in for tea: let the tea bag "sit" in the hot water to extract its flavour. You let whatever needs to be steeped placed into the liquid which will extract the flavour.
It is usually use in the instructions of making a cup of tea. It is using hot boiling water usually in a cup and adding a tea bag and letting the bag stay there for several minutes until the tea is as strong as you like it.
Steeping is when you soak something to get out of it what you wanted. When you make tea, you steep the tea bags. You steep to get out the flavor, color, what ever you are looking for from the ingredient.
It means to release all or most of the possible flavor from a tea, veggie or meat by soaking it in hot, warm or cool water. Whatever the recipe calls for.
Merriam- Webster's definition
Main Entry: 3steep
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English stepen
transitive verb
1 : to soak in a liquid at a temperature under the boiling point (as for softening, bleaching, or extracting an essence)
2 : to cover with or plunge into a liquid (as in bathing, rinsing, or soaking)
3 : to saturate with or subject thoroughly to (some strong or pervading influence)
steep 2
VERB:
steeped , steep・ing , steeps
VERB:
1:To soak in liquid in order to cleanse, soften, or extract a given property from.
2: To infuse or subject thoroughly to.
3: To make thoroughly wet; saturate.
VERB:
intr.
To undergo a soaking in liquid.
NOUN:
1: The act or process of steeping.
2: The state of being steeped.
3:A liquid, bath, or solution in which something is steeped.