overleavened
Excessively risen dough
Overleavened describes bread or baked goods that have too much leavening agent—yeast, baking powder, or baking soda—causing excessive rising.
The result is typically a coarse texture, collapsed top, or unpleasant taste: The overleavened loaf rose too fast and fell in the oven.
Figuratively, something overleavened has been inflated beyond what the substance can support.
Checking for errors
- fermentationMicrobial sugar conversion
- yeastFermenting fungus
- doughFlour-liquid mixture for baking
- breadmakingProducing loaves from dough
rise · collapse · gluten · carbon dioxide · ethanol · bubbles · expansion · artisanal
Sharp, biting taste
- yeastyContaining active ferment
- alcoholicAddicted to drinking
- fermentedTransformed by microbial action
- tangySharp and lively-tasting
acidic · beery · unpleasant · sharp · boozy · pungent · overfermented
proofing
Checking for errors
- fermentationMicrobial sugar conversion
- yeastFermenting fungus
- doughFlour-liquid mixture for baking
breadmaking · rise · collapse · gluten · carbon dioxide · ethanol · bubbles · expansion · artisanal · bakery
sour
Sharp, biting taste
- yeastyContaining active ferment
- alcoholicAddicted to drinking
- fermentedTransformed by microbial action
tangy · acidic · beery · unpleasant · sharp · boozy · pungent · overfermented
spongy
Soft and absorbent
coarse · porous · irregular · fragile · weak · loose · cavernous · tunneling · uneven · gaping
collapse
Sudden structural failure
caved · dense · gummy · flat · disappointing · ruined · wasted · unusable · discarded · mistake
overleavenedunleavened
Not raised by fermentation
flat · dense · heavy · underproofed · underbaked
leaven, leavening, leavened, unleavened, leavener, leaveners