: one that bastes food during cooking
Costco is the U.S.'s biggest seller of fine wines ($600 million a year) and baster of poultry (55,000 rotisserie chickens a day).—
John Helyar
John Helyar
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: a utensil that consists of a tube with a bulb at one end that draws in and ejects liquid for basting food
a turkey baster
Let them marinate for about 1 hour, using a bulb baster to saturate the meat from time to time. —Evan Jones
Evan Jones
: one who bastes garments or other articles : one who sews something with long, loose stitches
Basters place parts in position and fasten them by hand with coarse running stitches, generally making only a temporary fastening.—Royal Meeker
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Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 22 May 2025
Moldy tomatoes, clean dishes or utensils stored in dirty areas, and use of a metal brush not designed for food as a baster marred three Miami restaurants’ state inspections, each with at least 30 violations.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2025
Watch this video for some unique ways to use a turkey baster that doesn't involve a turkey.
—Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2024
Even Monica can’t grease him out with a turkey baster.
—Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Nov. 2023
Wilson has some recommendations: eye droplets or a food baster, a variety of spoons or measuring cups, squirt bottles, sponges, scrub brushes, dolls, toy cars, and bath toys.
—Nicole Harris, Parents, 6 June 2023
The researchers tested the aggressiveness of the Joro, which was first spotted in Alabama last year, by blasting the spider and 10 other species with two small puffs of air from a turkey baster.
—Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 26 Jan. 2023
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Noun
When a yellow-tinged solution separates from the jurema sludge below, draw it off with a turkey baster, squirt it into a baking pan, then put it in the freezer.
—Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 22 May 2025
Moldy tomatoes, clean dishes or utensils stored in dirty areas, and use of a metal brush not designed for food as a baster marred three Miami restaurants’ state inspections, each with at least 30 violations.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2025
Watch this video for some unique ways to use a turkey baster that doesn't involve a turkey.
—Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2024
Even Monica can’t grease him out with a turkey baster.
—Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Nov. 2023
Wilson has some recommendations: eye droplets or a food baster, a variety of spoons or measuring cups, squirt bottles, sponges, scrub brushes, dolls, toy cars, and bath toys.
—Nicole Harris, Parents, 6 June 2023
The researchers tested the aggressiveness of the Joro, which was first spotted in Alabama last year, by blasting the spider and 10 other species with two small puffs of air from a turkey baster.
—Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 26 Jan. 2023
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“Baster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baster. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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