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oven-ready

adjective

  1. (of various foods) bought already prepared so that they are ready to be cooked in the oven

  2. (of a new employee) ready to start work immediately without further training

    oven-ready graduates

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Pulled pork has also substituted an oven-ready gammon joint.

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First ensure you start a fully thawed and oven-ready bird, not a partially frozen turkey.

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“That doesn’t mean reversing the decision and going back into the EU but the deal we’ve got, it was said to be oven-ready. It wasn’t even half-baked,” he told the BBC.

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The effect has been to double U.S. retail egg costs in a year, with oven-ready chicken prices in the U.K. up by a quarter or more.

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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.

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