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Underdone
adjective
Insufficiently cooked; undercooked
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A little underdone but remember they will continue to cook slightly as they cool.
His favourite meal of all was his wife's Irish stew, or an underdone cheese omelette browned under the grill.
But "the people in between/ Looked underdone and harassed/ And out of place and mean/ And horribly embarrassed".Charles Jennings is one of the people in between, and in "People Like Us" he is, self-confessedly, all of those other things too.
You can also always be sure that their shtick is never knowingly underdone, from the duelling green lasers to the big perspex piano to Bellamy's shamelessly stagey way of drrrawing ouuut a syllable.
England might have liked another practice match but with all the top-six batsmen in their Test order now having made at least one fifty or hundred, they cannot claim to be underdone in that department.
Veal blanquette is a dialogue between the velvety, almost fonduelike white-wine sauce and the fibrous textures of the underdone root vegetables — turnip squares, a beet the palest pink imaginable.
One by-product of silicone is a substance the chemists call "bouncing putty;" it is soft & pliable, like slightly underdone taffy.
The Salt Guy declared the risotto, with Parmesan cheese, caramelized onions, and baby leeks, "brothy and underdone" — but he was overruled.
Everything in "Contagion" is staged with great physical conviction but without exaggeration — the tumult is neither overdone nor underdone.
That night, Angel chatters about food groups as she makes dinner — a can of chili dumped over an underdone squash and a package of frozen cheese bread — then takes over the TV.
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It almost rescues the wan pulled pork and sometimes-underdone ribs ($14.95 each for platters).
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