Phrase Requests – What’s the Phrase for Food Burning and Sticking to the Pan?

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When cooking neglectfully, food sometimes burns and sticks to the pan (or pot, or whatever one is cooking in). What is this phenomenon called in English?

Darn it! The spaghetti <stuck to the pot>!

Is there an idiomatic expression?

Best Answer

Probably the nearest to a single-word expression is burnt on.

The spaghetti boiled dry and now it's burnt on.

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