underbeaten

Not mixed enough

Underbeaten describes something that hasn't been mixed or whipped enough.

The term appears almost exclusively in cooking and baking, where properly beaten ingredients—eggs, cream, batter—develop specific textures.

Underbeaten egg whites won't hold stiff peaks; underbeaten batter may be lumpy: The cake fell because the eggs were underbeaten.

texture

lumpy

Having irregular bumps

streaky · watery · loose · flat · dense · heavy · deflated · separated · curdled · grainy

baking

meringue

Baked whipped whites

whipping · undermixed · volume · airy · glossy · foamy · peaks · collapse · grainy · weepy

Opposites
degree of beating/mixing

underbeatenoverbeaten

Mixed beyond ideal texture

overmixed · overworked · well-beaten · overwhipped · overstirred

Family

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