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• This meat is overcooked, almost burnt.From the entry overcooked
• His Elvis impersonation was embarrassingly overcooked.From the entry overcooked
• The consistency of powidl is only achieved by evaporating water from the overcooked fruit mash.2021 December 8, Józef Hernik, Maria Walczycka, Edward Sankowski, Betty J. Harris, Cultural Heritage—Possibilities for Land-Centered…. From the entry powidl
• If you boil it for hours, it becomes rubbery and overcooked.2020 September 6, Randall Munroe, “Can You Boil an Egg Too Long?”, in The New York Times. From the entry rubbery
• Everything was overcooked and misseasoned, but Kal, seeing how blotched Mrs.2014, Mike Conner ·, Archangel. From the entry misseasoned
• We also learned we overcooked it, undersalted the water and often used the wrong shape.2007 October 17, Mark Bittman, “Serving Pasta? Forget What You Learned”, in New York Times. From the entry undersalt
• All the cooked meat was overcooked, making judgments difficult if not impossible.1979, New York Magazine, page 68. From the entry mushiness
• My Provimi scaloppine was so overcooked it tasted like shredded cardboard.1979, New York Magazine, page 68. From the entry mushiness
• Topping the apples with squares of dough allowed steam to escape during baking, preventing the apples from overcooking.2021, America's Test Kitchen, The Complete Cook’s Country TV Show Cookbook, page 743. From the entry dowdy
• Don't overcook the knaidlach or they will fall apart.2012, Jayne Cohen, Jewish Holiday Cooking, unnumbered page. From the entry knaidel
• Burgernomics hints that their currencies are a little overcooked.2008, Glen Arnold, Corporate Financial Management. From the entry burgernomics
• Like scaloppine, scotched collops must not be overcooked or they will take on a texture not unlike dried buffalo.1995, Damon Fowler, Classical Southern Cooking, page 183. From the entry scotched collops
• About the only time that you can safely overcook kidneys is in an old-fashioned British steak-and-kidney pie or steak-and-kidney pudding.1981 July 16, James Beard, “As babe he loved organs”, in The News and Observer, Raleigh, N.C., page 5-F. From the entry steak-and-kidney pudding
• On a subsequent visit the eggplant was overcooked and overcheesed.1971, À la Vôtre, volumes 1-3, page 276. From the entry overcheesed
• Now, about your restaurants, I don’t relish the idea of paying 30 or 40 rubles for greasy bifshtek and overcooked vegetables.1957 June 9, Morton Cathro, “Travelin’ Light: See You in Siberia”, in Oakland Tribune, volume CLXVI, number 160, Oakland, Calif., page C-3. From the entry bifshtek
• It's difficult to have a perfectly cooked, cooked-through fried egg because, by the time the yolk has coagulated, or set, the white is overcooked.1997 March 20, Kristin Eddy, “EGGS a dozen ways”, in Atlanta Journal Constitution. From the entry fried egg
• Galette of champignon with bacon was a wet puff pastry shell holding overcooked mushrooms and, as far as we could tell, no bacon.1978 January 13, “Restaurants”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry champignon
• It was an enjoyable, if mild, selection, though the noodz — a thinner variety and thus less textural, less “buckwheat-y” than soba often is — were a bit overcooked.2020 January 2, Amy Drew Thompson, “Hungry Pants offers vegetarian, vegan, more healthy options”, in Orlando Sentinel, Orlando, Fla., page…. From the entry buckwheaty

Meaning of overcook

1. verb To cook for too long or at too high a temperature.
2. verb To do something to excess; to overdo; to ruin due to excessive effort.

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Questions about overcook in a sentence

How do you use overcook in a sentence?

Overcook is used as a verb. For example: “The runner overcooked it on the first lap, and ended up finishing last.”

What is a short sentence with overcook?

“His Elvis impersonation was embarrassingly overcooked.”

What does overcook mean?

Overcook means to cook for too long or at too high a temperature.