What does "flambé" mean?

A showy cooking technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.

What is a synonym for "flambé"?

Common synonyms include: burning, fire up, flambé dish, flame, flamed, flaming.

adj, noun, verb

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Noun

1
A showy cooking technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.
2
A flambéed dish.

Verb

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.”"

Adjective

1
Being, or having been, flambéed. not-comparable
2
Decorated by glaze splashed or irregularly spread upon the surface, or apparently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides. not-comparable

"“Flambé the dessert”, ordered the Chef, “but take the dish off the heat before adding the brandy or you'll burn your eyebrows off.”"

Borrowed from French flambé.