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a turkey's tiny syringe of mercy, sucking up juices to bribe dry meat into glory
means A kitchen tool, typically a tube with a rubber bulb, used to suck up and squeeze cooking juices back over roasting meat to keep it moist.
from From the verb 'baste,' meaning to moisten food while cooking, which entered English in the late Middle Ages — its deeper roots are murky, possibly from an Old French word for 'to soak' or 'sew loosely.' The '-er' is the plain old agent-suffix that turns a doer into a tool: a thing that bastes. (Note the homonym trap — the sewing 'baste,' meaning to tack with long loose stitches, comes from a different Germanic source meaning to bind, so a tailor's baster and a cook's baster are unrelated cousins by accident of spelling.)
- design
- basically a giant pipette wearing a chef hat
- physics
- works on suction, same as a drinking straw
- truth
- science says it barely moistens the meat
- alt use
- infamous for low-tech home insemination attempts
turkey baster — kitchen tool used to moisten poultry during roasting, standard in american thanksgiving cooking
liquid eye dropper — laboratory pipette with rubber bulb, used for precise liquid transfer in chemistry and medicine