Sentence examples for close to being cooked from inspiring English sources
When the beans are close to being cooked, heat one tablespoon of olive oil in a large frying pan, add the onions and a pinch of salt, and cook for 10-15 minuntil until soft and translucent.
No edible wild fruit, except the bog cranberry (Vacciniæ oxycoccus), and that requires to be cooked, lies so close to the ground as these earliest upland strawberries.
And Sidney wanted to be cooked.
The chorizo needs to be cooked beforehand.
But they and neighbors in this historically black enclave in the East Texas oilfields seem no closer to being able to drink, cook or bathe safely from their own wells since the E.P.A. found the groundwater contaminated with pollutants that included arsenic, benzene, lead and mercury.
If they close up, they can be cooked.
A candidate may be hidden in the Laboratory of Tropical Crop Improvement in Leuven, Belgium, which houses a big collection of specimens of bananas and plantains (close relatives that must be cooked before eating).Modifying the Cavendish is another, perhaps quicker, approach.
To check the chicken is cooked, pierce the thigh close to the bone – the juices should run clear.
Never eat a clam that is still closed after it has been cooked.
