roasting pan
noun
: a pan used for cooking food (such as chicken, potatoes, or beef) with dry heat in an oven
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Once your tsukemen appears — terrifically chewy noodles built to catch every drop of the accompanying half-broth, half-gravy, as heady as drippings scraped from a roasting pan — the world recedes.
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Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026
Transfer to a large roasting pan.
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2026
Place a 3-quart baking dish inside a roasting pan.
—Roberta Corradin, Saveur, 22 Jan. 2026
Place the pork on an ovenproof cooling rack set over a half sheet pan, or on a roasting rack placed in a roasting pan.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2025
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Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026
Transfer to a large roasting pan.
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2026
Place a 3-quart baking dish inside a roasting pan.
—Roberta Corradin, Saveur, 22 Jan. 2026
Place the pork on an ovenproof cooling rack set over a half sheet pan, or on a roasting rack placed in a roasting pan.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for roasting pan
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“Roasting pan.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/roasting%20pan. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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