baking dish

Meaning

A deep, oven-safe container, typically made of glass, ceramic, or stoneware, used for cooking food in an oven. It is commonly used for making casseroles, lasagnas, cobblers, and baked desserts.

Examples

• Please grease the baking dish with butter before pouring in the cake batter.

  Please grease the baking dish with butter before pouring in the cake batter.

• I bought a new ceramic baking dish that looks nice enough to serve directly on the table.

  I bought a new ceramic baking dish that looks nice enough to serve directly on the table.

• Carefully lift the hot baking dish out of the oven using thick oven mitts.

  Carefully lift the hot baking dish out of the oven using thick oven mitts.

• This recipe requires a nine-by-thirteen-inch baking dish for the lasagna.

  This recipe requires a nine-by-thirteen-inch baking dish for the lasagna.

• The roasted vegetables got stuck to the bottom of the glass baking dish.

  The roasted vegetables got stuck to the bottom of the glass baking dish.

Common Mistakes

• ✗ Pour the batter into the bake dish.

  ✓ Pour the batter into the baking dish.

  Use the gerund 'baking' to describe the purpose of the container, not the base verb 'bake'.

• ✗ Put the plastic baking dish in the oven.

  ✓ Put the glass baking dish in the oven.

  A baking dish must be made of heat-safe materials like glass, metal, or ceramic. Plastic containers will melt in the oven.

Related Expressions

Practice

• Make sure to grease the ___ so the lasagna doesn't stick to the sides.

  💡 A deep, oven-safe container used for baking meals.

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  baking dish

• She baked the sweet apple crumble in a beautiful ceramic ___.

  💡 An oven-safe vessel often made of glass or ceramic.

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  baking dish