flambéing

Verb

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.”

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