A baster for aspirating liquids from a roasting pan and distributing the liquids on the food roasting in the pan is a long straight tube with a rubbery bulb at a first open end. A second open end of the tube is narrow. The tube has a bend adjacent the second end. The bend is less than ninety degrees from the long axis of the tube. This enables the baster to more easily aspirate liquids from a roasting pan in the oven, since there is less vertical clearance required to reach the bottom of the pan. Use of this device does not require pulling the pan so far out of the oven than when basting as with straight basters.