bake-off

From bake +‎ -off.

bake-off (plural bake-offs)

1. A cooking contest, especially one where competition is head-to-head, not limited to preparing food involving baking.

   The winner of the Pillsbury bake-off is obviously a very good cook and is respected for it.

bake-off (not comparable)

1. (of bread) Prepared in advance, to be finished off by baking.
   • 2004, Wadebridge Ecological Centre, The Ecologist: Volume 34:

     In its most speeded-up form, bake-off bread might need only a few minutes in the oven to give it a crust and some colour.

• cook-off
• shake and bake

• beak off

• bake off

Unadapted borrowing from English bake-off. First attested in 1984^[1] by SO, although earlier examples can be found.

bake-off ?

1. A bake-off; a parbaked bread.
   • 1971 August 27, Expressen, page 13:

     Bake-off kallas en ny bakmetod som Konsum demonstrerar. Brödet kommer fryst, ogräddat och bakas mitt i butiken.

     Bake-off is the term used for a new baking method demonstrated by Konsum. The bread arrives frozen, unbaked, and is baked right in the store.

   • 1973 August 27, Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning, page 18:

     […] bakar bröd efter en — naturligtvis! — amerikansk idé som kalls bake-off.

     bakes bread according to a — naturally! — American concept called bake-off.

   • 2018 November 28, Lena Strömberg, “Från fryst deg till färdig bulle [From frozen dough to finished bun]”, in Göteborgs-Posten:

     Bake off föddes i USA i mitten av 1980-talet och bara något år senare bakades den första baguetten med den tekniken i Sverige. […] Bonjour är Sveriges största leverantör av bake off och säljer bland annat kanelbullsdeg, både ojäst och färdigjäst.

     Bake off was born in the USA in the mid-1980s and only a few years later the first baguette was baked using that technique in Sweden. Bonjour is Sweden's largest supplier of bake off and sells, among other things, cinnamon bun dough, both unleavened and ready-leavened.

   • 2023 February 27, Maria Nöjd, “Offentliga luncher slukar ett halvt kärnkraftsblock om dagen [Public lunches devour half a nuclear block a day]”, in Elinstallatören:

     Bland kunderna finns hittills offentliga verksamheter och en hotellkedja men han tror också att tvätterier och butiker med bake-off kan ha nytta av tekniken.

     Among the customers so far are public businesses and a hotel chain, but he also believes that laundries and shops with bake-off can benefit from the technology.

• bake-off-bröd (“bake-off bread”)
• bake-off-anläggning (“bake-off facility”)