verb
- to melt excessively or beyond the desired point
Usage: transitive or intransitive; technical/culinary context
Examples
- Be careful not to overmelt the chocolate, or it will become grainy.
- If you overmelt the butter, it will brown and lose its delicate flavor.
- The plastic began to overmelt when exposed to direct sunlight.
- She overmelted the cheese sauce, making it too thin for the pasta.
- Overmelting the wax can damage the fragrance in candle-making.