Synonyms:
- Ruined beyond salvage through excessive caution
- Done to within an inch of its life
- Thoroughly destroyed in the name of thoroughness
- Reduced to a husk by inattention
- Passable only to someone with no remaining hope
- Martyred on the altar of well-done
- The culinary equivalent of giving up
- Burned at both ends and in the middle
- Charred into submission
- Cooked past all reasonable interpretation of the word