What is Skimming?

Answer 1

Considering that your asking this in the food section, I'll assume you're cooking something with either fat or foam that rises to the top of it as it's simmering.

Skimming is using a spoon or "skimmer". To remove the fat that floats on top of sauces (like spaghetti sauce with meat), use a spoon to carefully remove the fat, but leave the good stuff!

They make a skimmer which looks like a ladle with screening/open mesh in it for skimming the foam off of jelly and jam before jarring it. I don't think I've ever used my skimmer for other than jams and jellies. You can think of that like the skimmers people use to take the leaves off the top of the water in their swimming pools.

Answer 2

Well it's either

Bouncing a flat stone across water by spinning it fast.

Reading very quickly by just glancing over the pages and getting the key points

Removing a small share of your employer/drug dealer/pimp/crime lord's profit without their knowledge. Often followed by 'swimming with the fishes' ;-)

A name for yet another perverse practice of celebrities

Applying a thin layer of plaster over a wall to smooth it off (Skimming over)

Or, last on MY list but I'm sure there's others, bouncing fast across the wavetops in a boat.

Oh, and I think it's also something about milk puddings getting a skin on, but I could be wrong.

Oy yeah, and then there's taking the cream off of full fat milk (to get skimmed milk or semi)

And, similarly, taking the meat fat off gravy as it floats.

Answer 3

as in skimming through an artitcle?

that means you don't read the whole thing, you read the begining and end of each aragraph doesn't have to be every single paragraph! and you just get the gist of what it's about

Answer 4

1) Remove the impurities (froth, blood clots from meat and bones etc) that rise to the surface of a broth.

2) Separate fat content from full-cream milk.

Answer 5

taking off the top, not going deep

Answer 6

scooping the froth off (e.g. cream off hot milk, fat off a broth, etc.)