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🍰 To not fully cook 💡 To not prepare well
to underbake

to underbake

4.1
Bake something for less time so it stays raw inside
  • verb
  • /ˌʌndərˈbeɪk/
translation icon : cocinar poco
  • I just underbake them a smidge, cool completely, wrap well in foil, and then put them in a plastic bag in the freezer.

Examples

  • If you underbake cookies, they will be soft and doughy in the middle.

  • Make sure not to underbake the bread; otherwise, it will be gummy inside.

  • If you underbake them, they're tough, apparently.

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  • She told me to avoid underbaking the cake, so it stays moist and fully cooked.

Synonyms

to undercook
vsto underbake
8 2.7

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

is specific to oven methods leaving the inside not fully cooked
to underdo
vsto underbake
6.8

To cook, heat, or do something for too short a time so it is not fully done

refers only to oven baking rather than any short treatment

Antonyms

to overbake
1 3.7

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

How Cooked

to overbake
1 3.7
to bake
388 1.0
to underbake
4.1
to undercook
8 2.7

Surface Forms

underbake infinitive
underbaked past
underbaked past participle
underbaking present participle
underbakes third person singular

Morphology

underbake = bake (transparent) = under + bake

Straightforward prefixation: 'under' (insufficiently) + 'bake' — literal cooking sense is directly derivable by learners.

Etymology

The word underbake comes from the prefix under- 'not enough' plus bake, so it literally means to bake for too little time and leave the inside uncooked.