Overfired

Quick meaning: Overfired is an adjective meaning (comparable, ceramics) Fired at a high (or excessively high) temperature.

Meaning

(comparable, ceramics) Fired at a high (or excessively high) temperature.

More Meanings

1. (not comparable, cooking) Of a cooker: having a heat source that is above the food being cooked.
2. simple past and past participle of overfire

Example Sentences

Steak lovers want a charred surface and a rare, even cold, center. A high-tech overfired broiler is the secret. This kind of broiler delivers tremendous heat that is both predictable and consistent.

Overfired grills, or salamanders, can, in addition, be used for making toast and salamandering. They have the heat source above the food [...]. This may comprise sets of burners firing below refractory or metal frets, or surface combustion plaques.

An overfired biscuit has insufficient porosity for glazing. An overfired body warps and bloats. An overfired glaze often blisters by the volatilization of part of its composition. It also reaches a stage where its viscosity is too low to keep it on the pot.

First, there are more than 300 ceramic wasters distributed throughout the deposit, as well as small numbers of burned and overfired sherds and badly deformed vessels. Some vases could not be fitted together properly, presumably because they had been broken during firing, and their parts subsequently had been warped [...].

Word Forms

• over-fired

Antonyms for overfired

Common opposites include underfired.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overheated, overhot, all-fired, overburnt, overfire, overcooked.

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