adjective
- beaten or whipped excessively, especially in cooking
Usage: culinary
Examples
- The overbeaten egg whites collapsed when folded into the batter.
- Her cake was dense because the mixture was overbeaten.
- Overbeaten cream will turn into butter instead of staying fluffy.
- The recipe warned against creating overbeaten meringue.
- The overbeaten frosting had a grainy texture.
- Professional bakers know to stop before the cream becomes overbeaten.