Food texture · Food and eating
chewy
needs much chewing
Chewy food is firm or elastic and takes a lot of chewing.
This vs that
The steak is chewy.
The steak is tender.
Hear it in real life
How are the sweets?
Quite chewy, but I like them that way.
The steak was so chewy that I gave up halfway through it.
Which sounds natural?
Psst — which one would you actually say?
Chewy is the ordinary adjective for food that takes a long time to chew.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: The meat is very hard to chew it.
Say: The meat is really chewy.
Say 'chewy' to describe food that takes a lot of chewing.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
chewy meat/bread/sweets; something is chewy
Food texture words
Food and eating · Food texture: the words around “chewy”.
Your turn: say it out loud
The meat is really chewy.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
chewy
needs much chewing
“The steak was so chewy that I gave up halfway through it.”
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