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Definition of Overcook
1. Verb. Cook too long. "The chefs overcook the vegetables"; "The vegetables were completely overcooked"
Definition of Overcook
1. Verb. To cook for too long or at too high a temperature. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overcook
1. to cook too long [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcook
Literary usage of Overcook
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Science by Bertha May Clark (1915)
"But it is possible to overcook plant foods; all of us, for example, are familiar
with soggy, overdone, dark potatoes. When starch remains too long in hot ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"Now leave one of them in the saucepan or steamer, and very much overcook it.
Its floury character will have disappeared, it will have become soft and gummy. ..."
3. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1863)
"But in eome other sections to continue the heat until the particles thus readily
füll apart would be to overcook the curd and get too hard a cheese. ..."
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