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oven-ready

oven-ready

1 2.7
You can cook it in the oven without extra work
  • adjective
: listo para hornear
  • I've made another food discovery: marinated, oven-ready pork tenderloins: honey-mustard, barbeque, teriyaki, or lemon-pepper.

Examples

  • One-grade, oven-ready, self-basting.

    Club Paradise (1986)

  • She bought some oven-ready meals that only needed to be heated before serving.

  • The store has a variety of oven-ready dishes available for a quick dinner solution.

  • For a hassle-free dinner, they prepared an oven-ready lasagna that cooks in just 30 minutes.

How Ready

ready-to-eat
7 2.8
oven-ready
1 2.7
prepared
∞ 1.3
half-done
8 3.4
raw
455 1.0

Surface Forms

oven-ready positive

Morphology

oven-ready = oven + ready (transparent) = oven + ready

Both components are common productive words and the meaning is a straightforward combination: prepared for the oven or for cooking.

Etymology

Oven-ready joins oven (a box for cooking) and ready ('prepared'), so it means food already set to go into the oven. This is why oven-ready products are sold to be cooked straight from their package without any extra work.