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Meaning of doneness | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The extent to which a food has been cooked.
    countable, uncountable
  2. The property of being finished; completion.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Testing the temperature with a candy thermometer is the most accurate way to determine the doneness of a syrup.”
“Unlike meat cookery, in which doneness is specified by customer order and determined by temperature, ...”
“In this section we look at how to test doneness of baked goods using three methods: observation, touch tests, and internal temperature.”
“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.”
“EVR is intended to give you objective evidence of partial doneness, something that will allow you to draw—and believe in—a picture like this: There will still be a period early in the project when progress is supported only by faith.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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