verb
- to mix something too much or for too long, especially in cooking or baking
Usage: cooking; baking
Examples
- Don’t overmix the muffin batter or the muffins will be tough.
- She overmixed the cake batter and it became dense.
- The recipe warns not to overmix the ingredients.
- If you overmix the dough, the cookies will be hard.
- Gently fold in the flour to avoid overmixing.
- The baker overmixed the pancake batter, making it rubbery.