When the steam is gone (sometimes today, withdrawn), the dry heat of the oven bakes the crust, producing its characteristically slightly crisp and flaky texture.

He knew instinctively that if he did not escape the chamber in a matter of minutes, the heat would bake him alive.

Official Derby pie is supposedly made with a layer of chocolate chips lining the bottom of the crust, the batter poured over the chips to keep them undisturbed and the heat of the oven baking the topmost layer so that it forms a kind of flaky-crispy crust.

"It looks like the Azrith Plains in spring," Cara said, "before the high heat of summer bakes it barren."

He finally gave up and sprawled out onto the hot asphalt, letting the heat bake through his worn body.

Assuming the Confederacy managed to win most of the upcoming battles, assuming that it managed to survive the Sheen onslaught, the heat of the conflict would bake the military into its final form-a form that would be difficult to break without causing considerable damage.

And then Flagg's face was plastered against his, that awful sick heat was baking into him, and Flagg's black weasel eyes were only an inch from his own.

Along the Shatt al Arab, the waterway that is a symbol of Arab-Persian hostility, the heat bakes brains, dries eyeballs and steeps the channel with its litter of half-sunken, shattered freighters.

The heat was baking, tremendous.

If it came off the desert, the heat in the streets could bake the flesh like unleavened bread.