unroast
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Among raw food enthusiasts: To process (vegetables) in a dehydrator, as an alternative to roasting them.
Transitive verb
adj
Not roasted.
Example Sentences
- "As a matter of fact, a standard joke in the coffee industry during October-November was that anyone could make a fortune if he could discover a means of "unroasting" coffee […]"
- "The interpreter told us that the boy who had been turning the spit first had hit his successor because the latter was turning it backwards, and would unroast the chickens."
- "Unroasting vegetables in the dehydrator softens them, allowing their flavors to intensify and become almost sweet. Almost any vegetable takes well to unroasting. Try diagonally cut carrots, green beans, halved Brussels sprouts, […]"
- "I also use it for sprouting wild rice, quinoa, and unroasting vegetables, and it's great for melding flavors when you make a lasagna or veggie burgers."
- "[…] inasmuch as they disobey even the very law under which they place themselves; which expressly forbids the eating of flesh (unroast), and the drinking of blood, […]"
Etymology
From un- + roast.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un