🍪 Too brown 🍞 To cook too brown

to overbrown

7.4

Cook or bake food until it becomes too brown

verb
/ˌoʊvərˈbraʊn/

: cocinar en exceso

She accidentally overbrowned the chicken while trying a new recipe.

Examples

If you overbrown the bread, the crust will taste bitter.
Watch the oven closely so you do not overbrown the top of the casserole.
Don't overbrown the toast!
I accidentally overbrowned the chicken in the oven.
To achieve the perfect roast, be careful not to overbrown the vegetables in the pan.
When baking, keep an eye on the cookies, as they can overbrown quickly if left unattended.
If you cook the steak too long, it will become dry and overbrown on the outside.

Synonyms

to overcook

vsto overbrown

13 1.0

To cook food for too long so it becomes dry or less tasty

focuses on unwanted dark color and bad taste rather than general extra cooking

to overbake

vsto overbrown

1 3.7

Cook something in the oven for too long so it becomes dry, hard, or burnt

emphasizes unwanted dark color and bad taste rather than just dryness

to overburn

vsto overbrown

7.5

To burn something too much so it is ruined

is about excess darkening and bad taste without severe damage

Antonyms

to undercook

8 2.7

Cook food for too short a time so it is not fully done or safe to eat

How Brown

to burn

∞ 1.0

to overbrown

7.4

to brown

50 2.0

Surface Forms

overbrown infinitive

overbrowned past

overbrowned past participle

overbrowning present participle

overbrowns third person singular

Morphology

overbrown = brown (transparent) = over + brown

The prefix 'over-' clearly indicates an excessive degree of the action 'brown'.

Etymology

To overbrown is formed from over- 'too much' and brown, like in the common word overcook, so it means to brown food too much while cooking and get a bad color or taste.