doneness

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doneness

noun donenesses

  1. countable, uncountable 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.
  2. countable, uncountable 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.

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noun extent to which a food has been cooked

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@misc{doneness_2026,
  title = {doneness},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/doneness},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}