Doneness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The extent to which a food has been cooked. countable, uncountable

    "Testing the temperature with a candy thermometer is the most accurate way to determine the doneness of a syrup."

  2. 2
    The property of being finished; completion. countable, uncountable

    "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."

Synonyms

All synonyms
completiondonemediumoverdonewell done

Example

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"Testing the temperature with a candy thermometer is the most accurate way to determine the doneness of a syrup."

Etymology

From done + -ness.

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