oven-ready
Britishadjective
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(of various foods) bought already prepared so that they are ready to be cooked in the oven
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(of a new employee) ready to start work immediately without further training
oven-ready graduates
Example Sentences
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Pulled pork has also substituted an oven-ready gammon joint.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2025
Takeout: Thanksgiving kit including an oven-ready all-natural brined turkey stuffed with herbs and citrus, mashed potatoes, turkey gravy, haricots verts with compound butter and toasted almonds and more available for delivery or pickup.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2022
In this reimagined version of a comfort staple, bacon, sausage and cheese are layered between oven-ready lasagna noodles.
From Salon • Oct. 17, 2021
Simply knowing that fragment of history, and knowing that domesticated turkey chicks freeze when hawks fly overhead, make them more complicated creatures than farmyard poultry or oven-ready carcasses.
From New York Times • May 16, 2017
Each of them had gone from clucking animal to oven-ready roaster in ten minutes, give or take.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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