crumbly texture
Breaks into pieces
A crumbly texture breaks apart easily into small, irregular pieces when touched or cut.
The phrase describes foods like aged cheese, shortbread, or dry soil that don't hold together firmly: The feta had a pleasant crumbly texture.
It can suggest desirable flakiness or undesirable dryness depending on context.
- shortbreadButtery, crumbly biscuit
- cookie crumbsBroken treat fragments
- friableReadily reduced to fragments
- mealyPowdery in texture
- pastryButtery baked dough
pie crust · brittle · flaky · powdery · gritty · feta · aged cheddar · cornbread · baking · brown butter · sandy · oatcake · fragile · fall apart · coarse · dry · dry rub · granular
- cooking mistakesburnt toast, burned food, undercooked, burnt popcorn, overcooked
- Soilsoil, topsoil, subsoil, dirt, loam
- biscuits & sconesfruit scone, cheese scone
structural cohesion
crumbly texturechewy texture
Resistant to biting through
bonded · unified · monolithic · compressed · gummy texture