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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
overcook .
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Examples
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Spike overcooks his shrimp and uses the last 10 minutes to pull together another batch.
Top Chef All-Stars Ep. 4: Game, set, match. Hootie. Carol Blymire 2010
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Meat never overcooks and is the same amount of doneness from side-to-side
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If your machine usually overcooks popcorn or typically leaves lots of unpopped kernels, skip the automatic setting and adjust the time accordingly.
Inside CR Test Labs: How we test microwave popcorn settings 2008
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If your machine usually overcooks popcorn or typically leaves lots of unpopped kernels, skip the automatic setting and adjust the time accordingly.
Inside CR Test Labs: How we test microwave popcorn settings 2008
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It also meant that it would be another quarter century before I ate green vegetables of any sort again (not even my mother's steamed broccoli Rita, which she overcooks to the point that it's healthier to throw out the vegetables and drink the steaming water): in the 1960s, fresh, leafy greens were simply not widely available in my part of the world.
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If it overcooks, as mine did tonight, the sugar will caramelize and turn into chunks of hard (and unusable) candy.
Carrots Glazed with Maple Syrup and Lime | A Veggie Venture 2005
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If it overcooks, as mine did tonight, the sugar will caramelize and turn into chunks of hard (and unusable) candy.
Archive 2005-04-01 2005
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If it overcooks, as mine did tonight, the sugar will caramelize and turn into chunks of hard (and unusable) candy.
A Veggie Venture 2005
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If it overcooks, as mine did tonight, the sugar will caramelize and turn into chunks of hard (and unusable) candy.
A Veggie Venture 2005
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If it overcooks, as mine did tonight, the sugar will caramelize and turn into chunks of hard (and unusable) candy.
A Veggie Venture 2005
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