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Examples
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Your loaf looks great, and not at all overbrown to me.
Just Like Ali Baba Sarah 2009
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Cook just until the bottom is firm and golden; do not overbrown.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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She was like the moon when at fullest on its fourteenth night, and was clad in a garment of blue, with a veil of green, overbrown flower-white that all wits amazed and those of understanding amated. —
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The sweet potato fries, however, are excellent — crispity-crunchity and not overbrown as sweet potato fries tend to be — and perhaps themselves worth the trip.
Archive 2008-03-01 Vanessa 2008
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It should not overbrown in the time it is in the oven.
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In a conventional oven a sweet honey-mustard basting sauce could overbrown.
The Perdue Chicken Cookbook Mitzi Perdue
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The Neapolitan recognized that there was beauty of a kind given to the girl -- in her hair, red as the reddest sunset, in her candid eyes, in the strong, supple body, overbrown from mountain light and mountain air for Lycabetta's fancy.
The Proud Prince 1898
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She was like the moon when at fullest on its fourteenth night, and was clad in a garment of blue, with a veil of green, overbrown flower-white that all wits amazed and those of understanding amated.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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The trick is to keep the flame pulled back a little from what you're browning and keep it moving continuously so you don't overbrown a spot.
The Seattle Times 2011
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If the turkey begins to overbrown, cover it loosely with aluminum foil.
unknown title 2009
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