A kitchen tool with a hollow bulb and tube used to draw up and squirt cooking liquid over meat during roasting.
From baste + -er (suffix forming agents or tools from verbs). Baste comes from uncertain origins, possibly Old Norse or Old French. The tool itself emerged as a named utensil around the 17th century.
The turkey baster became so iconic in American Thanksgiving imagery that many people don't realize it's a general cooking tool—the image is so strong it almost branded the entire category of utensils.
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