Learn English – the word for “doing something in various steps”

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The expression I am looking for is something like this:

Rather than putting the whole mixture of spices at one while cooking something, put a part of it in various steps/rounds separated by a regular interval.

Is using rounds correct, or should I use something else?

Basically, what I want to know is what word I am supposed to use to mean I am doing something in distributed steps rather than all at once.

Best Answer

Your original sentence is unclear to this extent: Do you mean that each spice should be put in separately (one spice at a time) or that they should all be mixed together into something like a curry powder and then added in equal fractional parts?

I'll assume the former (it's more rational for cooking for a couple of reasons).

You can say it this way:

Rather than adding all (of) the spices at the same time while cooking something, put them in one at a time at regular intervals, for example, every 2 minutes.

You can also say:

... put them in (separately) step by step, ..."

There's no need to clutter the sentence with unnecessary terms like "rounds" and "steps".

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