overbake
verbEtymology From over- + bake.
1
To bake too much: for too long, at too high a temperature, or both.
- And when they came out of the oven, they were that overbaked the crusts were too hard to eat.1890, Joseph Jacobs, “Tom Tit Tot”, in English Fairy Tales, page 1:
- It’s for an eight-inch pan, and the only thing you need to fear is overbaking; somewhere between 20 and 25 minutes is just about right.2007 April 18, “Letters”, in New York Times:
- Related terms
- rebake