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oven-ready

British

adjective

(of various foods) bought already prepared so that they are ready to be cooked in the oven
(of a new employee) ready to start work immediately without further training

oven-ready graduates

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

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2025

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

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2024

Takeout: Metropolitan Grill’s chef-prepared holiday meals for four are all oven-ready and include one main, all sides, dessert and simple heating instructions.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 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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