bake-off

See also: bakeoff

English

Etymology 1

From bake +‎ -off.

Noun

bake-off (plural bake-offs)

1. A cooking contest, especially one where competition is head-to-head, not limited to preparing food involving baking.

   The winner of the Pillsbury bake-off is obviously a very good cook and is respected for it.

Etymology 2

Adjective

bake-off (not comparable)

1. (of bread) Prepared in advance, to be finished off by baking.
   • 2004, Wadebridge Ecological Centre, The Ecologist: Volume 34:

     In its most speeded-up form, bake-off bread might need only a few minutes in the oven to give it a crust and some colour.

Translations

Prepared in advance to be finished off by baking

• Swedish: bake-off n

See also

• cook-off
• shake and bake

Anagrams

• beak off

Swedish

Alternative forms

• bake off

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bake-off. First attested in 1984 by SO, although earlier examples can be found.

Noun

bake-off ?

1. A bake-off; a parbaked bread.
   • 1971 August 27, Expressen, page 13:

     Bake-off kallas en ny bakmetod som Konsum demonstrerar. Brödet kommer fryst, ogräddat och bakas mitt i butiken.

     Bake-off is the term used for a new baking method demonstrated by Konsum. The bread arrives frozen, unbaked, and is baked right in the store.

   • 1973 August 27, Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning, page 18:

     […] bakar bröd efter en — naturligtvis! — amerikansk idé som kalls bake-off.

     […] bakes bread according to a — naturally! — American concept called bake-off.

   • 2018 November 28, Lena Strömberg, “Från fryst deg till färdig bulle [From frozen dough to finished bun]”, in Göteborgs-Posten:

     Bake off föddes i USA i mitten av 1980-talet och bara något år senare bakades den första baguetten med den tekniken i Sverige. […] Bonjour är Sveriges största leverantör av bake off och säljer bland annat kanelbullsdeg, både ojäst och färdigjäst.

     Bake off was born in the USA in the mid-1980s and only a few years later the first baguette was baked using that technique in Sweden. […] Bonjour is Sweden's largest supplier of bake off and sells, among other things, cinnamon bun dough, both unleavened and ready-leavened.

   • 2023 February 27, Maria Nöjd, “Offentliga luncher slukar ett halvt kärnkraftsblock om dagen [Public lunches devour half a nuclear block a day]”, in Elinstallatören:

     Bland kunderna finns hittills offentliga verksamheter och en hotellkedja men han tror också att tvätterier och butiker med bake-off kan ha nytta av tekniken.

     Among the customers so far are public businesses and a hotel chain, but he also believes that laundries and shops with bake-off can benefit from the technology.

Derived terms

• bake-off-bröd (“bake-off bread”)
• bake-off-anläggning (“bake-off facility”)