To move quickly or briskly, or to beat ingredients rapidly with a whisk to incorporate air.
From Old Norse 'visk,' meaning to sweep or brush. The word originally referred to the sweeping motion, and later came to mean both rapid movement and the kitchen tool used for beating.
The whisk is a perfect example of how a tool becomes a verb—just like we 'google' things now, cooks have been 'whisking' for centuries, and the tool's design with multiple wires is actually brilliant physics for trapping tiny air bubbles!
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