What bain marie mean

[LadyDennaRahl]

Continuing the discussion from Weekly Witchy Challenge - Witch Brews & Potions:

@SpanishWitchy

Combine the coconut oil, alba wax, jojoba oil and honey and heat it in the microwave or in a bain-marie (?)

bain-marie pronounced “bane mah-REE” is a fancy term for hot water bath or double boiling.

[BryWisteria]

@LadyDennaRahl

a fancy term for hot water bath or double boiling.

Thank you for clarifying the term, @LadyDennaRahl It’s certainly not a word I come across very often- perhaps I’ll try to add it to my vocabulary!

Blessed be

[AileyGrey]

bain is the french word for bath… I’m not really sure how the Marie plays in linguistically.

[AIRAM]

When I was studying nursing we liked to make jokes with my classmates: When a patient actually didn’t want to take a bath, we said [simple… to make a Bain Marie] When she asked, we said Baine Marie means Mary takes her bath, it literally means: But practically it’s one utensil inside another, so that sensitive substances don’t heat up and burn.We made the water very lukewarm and sensitivity was our favorite capricious patient.

[CelestiaMoon]

That’s fascinating!
I found out with a little research that the Marie refers to Mary the Jewess, the inventor of the double boiler, and the first known Western alchemist