flambé

See also: flambe

English

Slices of banana being flambéed in a saucepan

Alternative forms

• flambe

Etymology

Borrowed from French flambé.

Adjective

flambé (not comparable)

1. (cooking) Being, or having been, flambéed.
2. (ceramics, of Chinese porcelain) Decorated by glaze splashed or irregularly spread upon the surface, or apparently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides.

Derived terms

• Florida flambe

Translations

being or having been flambéed

• Finnish: liekitettävä (being), liekitetty (having been)
• French: flambé (fr)
• Portuguese: flambado (pt)
• Swedish: flamberad (sv)

Noun

flambé (plural flambés)

1. (cooking) A showy cooking technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.
2. A flambéed dish.

Translations

cooking technique

• Finnish: liekitys (fi), flambeeraus (fi)
• Indonesian: flambe
• Japanese: フランベ (ja) (furanbe)
• Polish: flambirowanie (pl) n
• Swedish: flambering c

act of flambéing

• Finnish: liekitys (fi), flambeeraus (fi)
• Swedish: flambering c

flambéed dish

• Finnish: liekitetty ruokalaji, flambeerattu ruokalaji (fi)

Verb

Bombe Alaska, a variety of baked Alaska that is doused with alcohol and flambéed

flambé (third-person singular simple present flambés, present participle flambéing, simple past and past participle flambéed or flambéd)

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

   “Flambé the dessert”, ordered the Chef, “but take the dish off the heat before adding the brandy or you'll burn your eyebrows off.”

Translations

to add and ignite alcohol to food

• Czech: flambovat (cs)
• Danish: flambere (da)
• Finnish: liekittää (fi), flambeerata (fi)
• French: flamber (fr)
• Galician: flamexar (gl)
• German: flambieren (de)
• Hungarian: flambíroz (hu)
• Italian: fiammeggiare
• Polish: flambirować impf
• Portuguese: flambar (pt)
• Spanish: flambear (es)
• Swedish: flambera (sv)

Anagrams

• famble

French

Pronunciation

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Participle

flambé (feminine flambée, masculine plural flambés, feminine plural flambées)

1. past participle of flamber

Further reading

• “flambé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.