Noun: toasting tow-sting
- The process of cooking food until it turns brown, typically to enhance flavour
"proper toasting should brown both sides of a piece of bread";
- browning
- (cooking) make brown and crisp by heating
"toast bread";
- crispen, crisp
- Propose a toast to
"Let us toast the birthday girl!";
- drink, pledge, salute, wassail [archaic]
Derived forms: toastings
Type of: cookery, cooking, fete, fête, heat, heat up, honor [US], honour [Brit, Cdn], preparation, reward
Encyclopedia: Toasting
Toast, NC