Keeping on the stove too long

Usage examples of overcooking.

Most are unbearably dull, yakking day and night about waste nutrients in the run-off fluid or overcooking or the endless other bits of job-related trivia that compose their lives, but washers are an exception.

When he returned and sat himself at the massive pre-Change table in the center of the room, he found that the cooks, terrified of his famous temper, had made a hasty botch of his breakfast, overcooking the pigeon eggs and failing to crisp the cured pork the way he liked it.