doneness

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The extent to which a food has been cooked.

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

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

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

2. (countable, uncountable)The property of being finished; completion.

   “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.”

   “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.”