Prepare harder than al dente

Usage examples of undercook.

Undercooked kidney beans in those popular al dente mixed-bean salads contain hemagglutinins, which make your red blood cells stick together and account for poor growth among children in parts of Africa.

There were four kids, each attacking a large plate of pale, undercooked fries.

Nowadays, undercooked ham in any form could give a person trichinosis, which meant a horrible death, eaten alive by the microscopic worms.

It seemed to be mostly shredded wingbean pods and undercooked hamster meat embedded in a starchy mush that the Cygnans had synthesized or adapted from their own chemistry.

Pleas that it was needed for the humanitarian gesture of a proper funeral were countered with remarks about the expense and effort involved in obtaining the wood in the first place and the discomforts of eating undercooked food or sleeping in a cold house.

What if I picked up an as-of-yet undiscovered crazy cow virus by eating an undercooked cheeseburger?

She caught sight of something one of the undercooks was doing to a beef roast and waddled over to her.

They had discovered that the capons were undercooked and, in consequence, virtually dagger-proof.

The best that his optimistic stepdaughter could hope for seemed to be salmonella contamination of the undercooked egg yolks.

He suffered from liver fluke, an incurable condition caused by a meal of undercooked escargots many years ago.

The menu was ambitious in conception, and Mary seemed to have taken a perverse pleasure in seeing how best she could alternate undercooking and overcooking.

He'd arrived in the Blues' kitchens and cellars, spent a day glaring at what he found, thrown out almost all of the implements, much of the wine, dismissed all but two of the undercooks, terrified the boys, and-within days-had begun producing meals that dazzled and amazed.

Kyros saw that the two undercooks and the other boys had each grabbed some sort of weapon.