deglazing

English

Verb

deglazing

1. present participle and gerund of deglaze

Noun

deglazing (plural deglazings)

1. (usually in the plural) A piece of deglazed food from a pan.
2. The process by which a pan is deglazed.
   • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

     The pan overheated, the heat was too high, the heat was too low, the onions refused to caramelize or burned immediately and stuck; […] and inevitably the meat got tough and stringy, the sauce lost its complexity in the repeated dilutions and deglazings […]