escaldado
/eskaldado/from spelling rules
The Spanish word for blanching is escaldado.
escaldado refers to the process of briefly immersing food in boiling water and then cooling it quickly in ice water. In professional culinary contexts, it can also be translated as scalding or parboiling.
How does it change in a sentence?
The noun escaldado is derived from the verb escaldar, which means to blanch or to scald. If you want to express the action itself, use the verb escaldar.
How do you pronounce it?
/eskaldado/
Did you know?
- Outside the kitchen, the word escaldado is used in medicine to describe a burn caused by hot liquids or steam.
- In some Spanish-speaking regions, the term escaldar can be used figuratively to describe someone being 'scolded' or 'rebuked' very harshly.
- The verb escaldar shares its linguistic roots with the English word 'scald', making them cognates that follow a similar phonetic logic.
Examples in context
- El escaldado consiste en sumergir brevemente los alimentos en agua hirviendo y luego enfriarlos rápidamente en agua con hielo.Blanching involves briefly immersing the food in boiling water and then rapidly cooling it in ice water.
- ¿Cómo hago el paso previo al escaldado?How do I do the pre-step to scalding?
- Un truco para obtener mejores resultados al blanquear es asegurarse de que el agua esté bien caliente antes de sumergir los alimentos.A trick to achieve better blanching results is to make sure the water is boiling hot before immersing the food.
- Voy a pasar estos vegetales por agua hirviendo antes de prepararlos.I'm going to blanch these vegetables before cooking them.
- El escaldado de las espinacas es muy rápido.The blanching of the spinach is very quick.
- El escaldado de los vegetales ayuda a mantener la textura.The blanching of the vegetables helps maintain the texture.
Example conversation
Mateo and María are preparing vegetables in a kitchen.
- MateoMaría, ¿ya terminaste con el escaldado de los tomates?María, have you finished the blanching of the tomatoes yet?
- MaríaSí, Mateo, ya los puse en agua con hielo.Yes, Mateo, I already put them in ice water.
- MateoPerfecto, así la piel saldrá más fácilmente.Perfect, that way the skin will come off more easily.
- MaríaEs cierto, el proceso funciona de maravilla.That's true, the process works wonderfully.
Sources
- IPA marked “from spelling rules” is derived from standard Spanish spelling, where Wiktionary gives none.
- Word origins: Wiktionary entries escaldado, CC BY-SA 4.0.
