deglaze
Americanverb (used with object)
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to remove the glaze from (porcelain or the like), so as to impart a dull finish.
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to add wine or other liquid to (a pan in which meat has been roasted or sauteed) so as to make a sauce that incorporates the cooking juices.
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Add in your choice of red wine to deglaze the pot before adding in short ribs and beef stock.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026
Katie Holdefehr writes for Real Simple that "the trick to cleaning a burnt stainless steel pan without much scrubbing is to deglaze the pan while it's still hot."
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2024
Add the vermouth, and deglaze the pan by scraping any brown bits off the bottom of the pan and incorporating them back into the onions.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
Add the white wine to deglaze, and bring everything to a simmer, scraping the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon to release its flavor cache.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2023
Add the port to deglaze by scraping up any browned bits stuck to the bottom of the pot.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2023
Then in went the sliced garlic and tomatoes, the pan deglazed with a few generous pats of salted butter.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2025
The pot is deglazed with water, less than you would use in a soup, but more than for a braise.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2024
This rich, decidedly chunky sauce starts by large-dicing and searing meaty portobellos, which are removed before the pan gets deglazed with white wine previously used to rehydrate dried porcinis.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2021
Shrimp in a sassy “cocktail” of tomato, lemon juice, black pepper and ginger represents Mexico while China feels closer with every forkful of crisp green beans blasted with chile paste and deglazed with yuzu juice.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2020
As instructed, I let them go until the liquid had reduced down to very little, then deglazed the pan with the remnants of the bottle.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2017
Add this to the soup, deglazing the skillet with a little soup liquid and adding the deglaze contents back to the soup pot.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2023
Carmy’s method incorporated cheffier methods, such as browning the beef before roasting it to layer more flavor and deglazing the pan with red wine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
Today, we’re going to talk about deglazing and pan sauces.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2022
You've probably used the deglazing technique while cooking.
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2022
Brown the pieces in batches in a Dutch oven, deglazing the pan each time with a splash of white wine before browning the next, saving the glaze in a separate cup.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2018
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