flambé vs torch

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. 

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. 

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. 

torch

verb
  • To set fire to, especially by use of a torch (flaming stick). 

  • To travel in a spacecraft propelled by a torch drive ("a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion"). 

noun
  • An arsonist. 

  • A stick with a flame on one end, used chiefly as a light source; a similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material. 

  • A blowtorch or oxy-gas torch. 

  • A portable light source powered by electricity; a flashlight. 

  • A torch drive ("a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion"). 

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