simple past tense and past participle of caramelize

plural of caramel

(cooking) The process that converts sugars into caramel; the process of caramelizing. / (cooking) The browning of sugars by heat.

Of a yellow-brown color.

(transitive, cooking, dated) To caramelize.

(uncountable) A smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky. / (countable) A (sometimes hardened) piece of this confection.

present participle of caramelize

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caramelize

(cooking, transitive) To convert (sugar) into caramel. / (cooking, transitive) To brown (sugar, or a foodstuff containing sugar) by means of heat.

plural of caramelization