overfired

Adjective

overfired (not generally comparable, comparative more overfired, superlative most overfired)

1. (comparable, not comparable, usually) Fired at a high (or excessively high) temperature.
   • At this point overfiring begins, as is shown particularly by the volume curve, which indicates decided bloating, so that at 1450°C the clay has about the same volume it had at 1050°C before vitrification took place. At 1450°C it is, therefore, decidedly overfired. However, its excellent burning...1919, United States. Bureau of Standards, Technologic Papers of the Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, page 15
   • A large percentage of all Late Horizon fragments at this site was overfired, to the point where many were vitrified, black to dark brown, and misshapen, some with blistered surfaces. This observation leads me to conclude that these fragments probably formed the discards from a pottery workshop...1976, Dorothy Menzel, Pottery Style and Society in Ancient Peru: Art as a Mirror of History in the Ica Valley, 1350–1570, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 30, column 2

   Antonyms:

   underfired

2. (not comparable, usually) Of a cooker: having a heat source that is above the food being cooked.
   • Overfired grills, or salamanders, can, in addition, be used for making toast and salamandering. They have the heat source above the food [...]. This may comprise sets of burners firing below refractory or metal frets, or surface combustion plaques.2006, “Flame Protection Systems”, in Frank Saxon, editor, Tolley’s Industrial and Commercial Gas Installation Practice (Gas Service Technology; 3), 4th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire; Burlington...
   • Steak lovers want a charred surface and a rare, even cold, center. A high-tech overfired broiler is the secret. This kind of broiler delivers tremendous heat that is both predictable and consistent.2009, Peter Osbaldeston, The Palm Springs Diner’s Bible: […], Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 250

   Antonyms:

   underfired