doneness

Noun

doneness (countable and uncountable, plural donenesses)

1. The extent to which a food has been cooked.
   • Testing the temperature with a candy thermometer is the most accurate way to determine the doneness of a syrup.2004, Wayne Gisslen, Professional Baking, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 207
   • Unlike meat cookery, in which doneness is specified by customer order and determined by temperature, ...2010, Lou Sackett, Jaclyn Pestka, Wayne Gisslen, Professional Garde Manger: A Comprehensive Guide to Cold Food Preparation, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 91
2. The property of being finished; completion.
   • You can use a metaphor as a loose form of doneness testing. In one workshop, we used a bull's-eye. I created a poster with a bull's-eye showing concentric circles with the label "100%" in the center.2002, Ellen Gottesdiener, Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs
   • EVR is intended to give you objective evidence of partial doneness, something that will allow you to draw—and believe in—a picture like this: There will still be a period early in the project when progress is supported only by faith.2013, Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister, Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects, page 125