Definition of roastings Roastings

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What does roastings mean?

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Noun Plural: roastings
roasting - cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added); "the slow roasting took several hours"
		cookery, cooking, preparation the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"
		barbecuing roasting a large piece of meat on a revolving spit out of doors over an open fire

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Roasting is a way of cooking. Something gets roasted if it is put it over a fire (and let it burn) some. The same effect can also be attained with a grill at a barbecue.

Meat.

In different countries people like to roast different things. People usually roast pork, beef, chicken, lamb, and duck. The roasted meat is called roast.

Most meat being roasted has to cook for a long time. In Britain, a piece of roast meat is called a "joint". For health reasons, a piece of pork or chicken is never roasted.

Other.

Other things can be roasted too. For example, vegetables, coffee and chocolate. Coffee and chocolate are always roasted.