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«اِلْفُرْنِ الْحَامِي إِدَامْ تَانِي»

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Meaning: Verified
English translation

A hot oven is as good as a second helping of relish.

Literal wording

The hot oven is a second relish.

Meaning and lesson

When an oven is properly hot, whatever is cooked inside comes out so well done and flavorful that it seems to carry a second relish on top of the one already in the dish; the colloquial تاني here means 'second'. The heat itself is praised as though it were an added ingredient.

The same praise extends to bread. Loaves baked in a well-heated oven turn out so good that a person could almost eat them plain, without any relish alongside. The word إدام belongs to proverbial wording; everyday speech would normally use غموس for such an accompaniment.

When it is used

Use it to praise bread or food made in a thoroughly heated oven. It suggests that proper heat improves both cooking and flavor so much that the result seems to have an extra accompaniment. The saying belongs naturally in talk about baking and meals.

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