flambé vs ignite

flambé

verb
  • To cook with a showy technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited. 

adj
  • Decorated by glaze splashed or irregularly spread upon the surface, or apparently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides. 

  • Being, or having been, flambéed. 

noun
  • A showy cooking technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited. 

  • A flambéed dish. 

ignite

verb
  • to commence burning. 

  • to spark off (something), to trigger 

  • to set fire to (something), to light (something) 

  • To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; often said of incombustible or infusible substances. 

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