What's the difference between dressing and stuffing?!


Question: As far as I know, they're the same thing, just called differently by different people. Like with cakes: do you ice them or frost them?

Of course, some say that, logically speaking, stuffing would be what you put inside the bird, while dressing would be the kind cooked separately in a casserole. But if -- as is often the case -- it was all prepared in one batch, and the extra part that wouldn't fit in the bird was simply put in a separate casserole, that certainly shouldn't change the name, should it? And after all, you're really not "dressing" the turkey with it, but are eating it as a side dish.

Personally, I prefer "stuffing". And I put "dressing" on my salads.


Answers: As far as I know, they're the same thing, just called differently by different people. Like with cakes: do you ice them or frost them?

Of course, some say that, logically speaking, stuffing would be what you put inside the bird, while dressing would be the kind cooked separately in a casserole. But if -- as is often the case -- it was all prepared in one batch, and the extra part that wouldn't fit in the bird was simply put in a separate casserole, that certainly shouldn't change the name, should it? And after all, you're really not "dressing" the turkey with it, but are eating it as a side dish.

Personally, I prefer "stuffing". And I put "dressing" on my salads.

dressing goes outside the food
stuffing goes in

And like terms for soft drinks, sub sandwiches, burgers and other foods, correct it is one in and the other out, but it is also a regional slang for areas of the U.S.

Here in Canada we use both terms, but like the word biscuits even here in canada we will give you a cookie fi you as for a biscuit, like in the UK.

The part of the country you come from, like pop and soda.





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