Dipping sauce

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Dip sauce
Sushi being dipped into soy sauce
Alternative namesDipping sauce
TypeCondiment

A dip or dip sauce is a common

pita bread, dumplings, crackers, chopped raw vegetables, fruits, seafood, cubed pieces of meat and cheese, potato chips, tortilla chips, falafel, and sometimes even whole sandwiches in the case of jus. Unlike other sauces
, instead of applying the sauce to the food, the food is typically placed or dipped into the sauce.

Dips are commonly used for

soft cheese, or beans are a staple of American hors d'oeuvres and are thicker than spreads, which can be thinned to make dips.[1] Celebrity chef Alton Brown suggests that a dip is defined based on its ability to "maintain contact with its transport mechanism over three feet [1 m] of white carpet".[2]

Dips in various forms are eaten all over the world and people have been using sauces for dipping for thousands of years.[3]

List of dips

Various chutneys
A spinach and artichoke dip with tortilla chips
long beans
Tzatziki

Some types of dip include:

See also

References

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  2. ^ Alton Brown (writer/director/host) (2002-10-16). "Dip Madness". Good Eats. Season 6. Episode 9. Food Network.
  3. ^ The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink. p. 145.
  4. ^ Hesser, Amanda (November 5, 2009). "Bagna Cauda, 1960". New York Times. p. MM20, New York edition. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
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  6. ^ Snow, Jane (March 15, 2006), "Sushi: how to choose, order and eat it", The Island Packet, p. 3-C, retrieved July 6, 2010 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
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    . Retrieved September 12, 2011.