cooking

Meaning

1. The process of preparing food by using heat.
2. An instance of preparing food by using heat.
3. The result of preparing food by using heat.
4. The result of preparing food by using heat.
5. The cheapest available beer for sale in a public house; cooking bitter or cooking lager.

cooking

cookery

cuisine

boiling

cook

maturing

dressing

preparation

kitchen

culinary arts

meal

concoction

baking

boil

preparing meal

fuel and water

salary

food

table

heating

making a dish

preparing food

board

diet

fare

braising

broiling

simmering

stewing

roasting

causing digestion

ripening

manner of cooking

business of a cook

food preparation

dish

potlatch

cooked

preparing the grub

batch

humid

muggy

smother

kitchens

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkʊk.ɪŋ/

From cook + -ing. The noun and adjective follow from the verb. The use of the word cooking to describe cheap bitter was popularized by the title character of the BBC sitcom Oh No, It’s Selwyn Froggitt (1974-1978).

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cook

1. A person who prepares food.
2. The head cook of a manor house.
3. The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
4. (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
5. (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
6. A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
7. An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.