hard-baked
4.4
Made by heating until very hard and dry, for example food or clay
- adjective
- /hɑrd-beɪkt/
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horneado duro
- Some traditional potteries use a hard-baked clay technique for durability.
Examples
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The hard-baked bread was difficult to chew.
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After hours in the oven, the bread was hard-baked and nearly impossible to slice.
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The hard-baked crust made the pastry difficult to cut.
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I prefer hard-baked cookies over soft ones.
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The cookies became hard-baked after being in the oven for too long.
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His hard-baked ideas about cooking left little room for experimentation.
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To make the bread hard-baked, you should let it bake longer at a higher temperature.
How Hard
Surface Forms
hard-baked positive
Morphology
Etymology
Hard-baked is made from the words hard and baked, and it literally means 'baked until hard'. Think of bread left in the oven until it loses moisture and becomes very firm, which is why we call very dry, firm food or clay 'hard-baked'.