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to bring to the boil

English translation: bring to the boil

14:28 Aug 15, 2009
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Cooking / Culinary / UK speakers
English term or phrase: to bring to the boil
I need some help from my colleagues in the UK. In the context of writing recipes for a cook book, which is to be released in the UK market, I am trying to figure out if I should use "bring to the boil" vs. bring to a boil. For Americans we tend to use "bring to a boil" but I have noticed that I get more hits on UK search engines for the expression "bring to the boil". Are there any suggestions from the British culinary aficionados out there?
Rosa Foyle
Germany
Selected answer:bring to the boil
Explanation:
Most definitely!
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Martin Robinshaw
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:34
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5 +13bring to the boil
Martin Robinshaw
5to bring to the boil
Alice Inman-Morgan


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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +13
bring to the boil


Explanation:
Most definitely!

Martin Robinshaw
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:34
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Patricia Townshend (X)
9 mins
agree  Peter Moor: Yes! See this link: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bring_to_the_boil
21 mins
agree  Edith Kelly
49 mins
agree  Sonja Marks-Terrey
54 mins
agree  Claire Cox
1 hr
agree  Polangmar
2 hrs
agree  George C.
2 hrs
agree  Sabine Akabayov, PhD
2 hrs
agree  Jenni Lukac (X)
6 hrs
agree  Jeanette Phillips
7 hrs
agree  Rolf Keiser
17 hrs
agree  Lonnie Legg
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agree  Phong Le
3 days 14 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
to bring to the boil


Explanation:
A good way to find out how popular a term is, is to put it in quotes a google it. in this case you receive over 228,000 answers. after the first 2 pages which are explanations of the use of the term and glossary definitions, you find mostly recipes. so I would say that "bring to the boil" is quite popular in the UK. the reason for 2 pages of definitions would be because I googled it in the US.

Example sentence(s):
  • Add the frog legs and a few canned mushrooms cut fine, bring to the boil and serve.
Alice Inman-Morgan
Local time: 07:34
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Andy Carr: Bring to the boil is indeed popular in the UK, but we would use "finely sliced" rather than "cut fine", the famous american schizophrenic adjective/adverb usage
2 days 1 hr
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