doneness

English

Etymology

From done +‎ -ness.

Noun

doneness (countable and uncountable, plural donenesses)

1. The extent to which a food has been cooked.
   • 2004, Wayne Gisslen, Professional Baking, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 207:

     Testing the temperature with a candy thermometer is the most accurate way to determine the doneness of a syrup.

   • 2010, Lou Sackett, Jaclyn Pestka, Wayne Gisslen, Professional Garde Manger: A Comprehensive Guide to Cold Food Preparation, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 91:

     Unlike meat cookery, in which doneness is specified by customer order and determined by temperature, ...

   • 2011, McFadden Layton, Linda Larsen, Gluten-Free Baking For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 53:

     In this section we look at how to test doneness of baked goods using three methods: observation, touch tests, and internal temperature.

2. The property of being finished; completion.
   • 2002, Ellen Gottesdiener, Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs:

     You can use a metaphor as a loose form of doneness testing. In one workshop, we used a bull's-eye. I created a poster with a bull's-eye showing concentric circles with the label "100%" in the center.

   • 2013, Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister, Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects, page 125:

     EVR is intended to give you objective evidence of partial doneness, something that will allow you to draw—and believe in—a picture like this: There will still be a period early in the project when progress is supported only by faith.

Translations

extent to which a food has been cooked

• Finnish: kypsyysaste, kypsyys (fi)
• German: Garstufe f

property of being finished

• Finnish: valmiusaste

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