Skewer

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For other uses, see Skewer (disambiguation).
Wooden skewers

A skewer is a thin metal or wood stick used to hold pieces of food together.

metonym, to refer to the entire food item served on a skewer, as in "chicken skewers". Skewers are used while grilling or roasting
meats and fish, and in other culinary applications.

In English, brochette is a borrowing of the French word for skewer. In

cookery, en brochette means 'on a skewer', and describes the form of a dish or the method of cooking and serving pieces of food, especially grilled meat or seafood, on skewers; for example "lamb cubes en brochette".[2] Skewers are often used in a variety of kebab
dishes.

Utensil

Metal skewers are typically stainless steel rods with a pointed tip on one end and a grip of some kind on the other end for ease of removing the food. Non-metallic skewers are often made from bamboo, as well as hardwoods such as birch, beech,[3] or other suitable wood. Prior to grilling, wooden skewers may be soaked in water to avoid burning. A related device is the rotisserie or spit, a large rod that rotates meat while it cooks.

History

firedogs
, 17th century BCE

Evidence of the

fire dogs" used before the 17th century BCE. In these supports there are pairs of indentations that may have been used for holding skewers.[5] Homer in Iliad (1.465) mentions pieces of meat roasted on spits (ὀβελός, obelós). In Classical Greece, a small spit or skewer was known as ὀβελίσκος (obeliskos),[6] and Aristophanes mentions such skewers being used to roast thrushes.[7] The story is often told of medieval Middle Eastern soldiers - usually Turkish or Persian, depending on the storyteller – who cooked meat skewered on their swords.[8][9]

One of the most well-known skewered foods around the world is the shish kebab. The earliest literary evidence for the Turkish word şiş (shish) as a food utensil comes from the 11th-century Diwan Lughat al-Turk, attributed to Mahmud of Kashgar. He defines shish as both a skewer and 'tool for arranging noodles' (minzam tutmaj), though he is unique in this regard as all subsequent known historical references to shish define it as a skewer.[10][11]

Examples of skewered foods

Kebab

Main articles: Kebab and List of kebabs

A large variety of dishes cooked on skewers are kebabs (meat dishes prevalent in Middle Eastern cuisine and the Muslim world), or derived from them. Examples include Turkish shish kebab, Iranian jujeh kabab, Chinese chuan, and Southeast Asian satay. However, kebab is not synonymous with "skewered food", and many kebab dishes such as chapli kebab are not cooked on skewers. On the other hand, English speakers may sometimes use the word kebab to refer to any food on a skewer.

Other

Dishes, other than kebabs, prepared with skewers include American city chicken and corn dog, Brazilian churrasco, indigenous Peruvian anticucho, Indonesian satay, Italian arrosticini, Greek souvlaki, Japanese kushiyaki and kushikatsu, Korean jeok and kkochi, Nepali sekuwa, Portuguese espetada, Serbian ražnjići, Vietnamese nem nướng and chạo tôm, and Chinese shaokao.

Appetizers and

elote, telur gulung, and tanghulu, are sold and served "on a stick" or skewer, especially at outdoor markets, fairs, and sidewalk or roadside stands around the world.[citation needed
]

See also

References

  1. ^ "skewer". Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. 1989.
  2. ^ "En brochette definition and meaning". Collins English Dictionary. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
  3. ^ "Producer of sticks for skewers and popsicle - Zdzisław Fyda". patyczki-ns.pl. Retrieved 2019-12-15.
  4. OCLC 898158291.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )
  5. ^ To Vima (in Greek), 6-2-2011 (picture 2 of 7)
  6. ^ ὀβελίσκος, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus, dim. of ὀβελός (obelos), ὀβελός.
  7. ^ Acharnians 1007
  8. ^ "FIRE DANCE—The Fascinating Story of Lamb Shish Kebab". The New Yorker. Vol. 37 part 3. 1961. p. 346. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  9. OCLC 17199754
    .
  10. ISBN 9780907325796
    . Retrieved 2018-07-16.
  11. ^ "Nişanyan Sözlük - şiş" [Nişanyan Dictionary - shish]. Nişanyan Sözlük (in Turkish). Retrieved 2018-07-16.
  12. OCLC 797821047
    .

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