baking

The activity of making food such as bread or cakes in an oven.

• I enjoy baking at weekends.
• The children helped with the baking.
• Her baking always makes the kitchen smell wonderful.

Common phrases: do some baking, home baking, baking bread

The way food or other material is cooked or heated in an oven.

• Slow baking gives the bread a thick crust.
• Even baking prevents pale patches on the cake.
• The baking of this clay requires a low temperature.

Common phrases: slow baking, even baking, gentle baking

One batch of bread, cakes, or other products made in an oven.

• The first baking produced twenty loaves.
• They sold the morning’s baking before noon.
• Two bakings were needed to fill the order.

Similar words: batch

Common phrases: first baking, daily baking, second baking

Used for cooking food or heating materials in an oven.

• Put the cake mixture in a baking tin.
• She bought two new baking trays.
• The workshop has a large baking oven for clay.

Common phrases: baking dish, baking tray, baking oven

Extremely hot, often in an uncomfortable way.

• It is baking hot today.
• We walked home in the baking sun.
• I was baking in that crowded room.

Similar words: boiling, roasting, scorching

Opposites: freezing

Common phrases: baking hot, baking heat, baking sun