uneven cooking (softening) in boiled food

part, portion / copy of a newspaper or book

pasta

(medicine) Clipping of パスタ剤 (pasuta-zai, “a fat- or oil-based medicinal salve, ointment, or balm”).

to eat / (archaic, humble) to eat or drink

hard; to harden / to set; to solidify

硬い: keeping its physical shape or appearance under a force: stiff / 固い: keeping its shape or behaviour even under other influences: hard, firm

hard / tight / strong; firm / strict / inflexible

oil field

boiling in salty water