cooking
IPA: kˈʊkɪŋ
noun
- (uncountable) The process of preparing food by using heat.
- (countable, rare) An instance of preparing food by using heat.
- The result of preparing food by using heat.
- (uncountable) One's ability to prepare food; cookery.
- (uncountable) The style or genre of food preparation.
- (uncountable) The cheapest available beer for sale in a public house; cooking bitter or cooking lager.
adjective
- Designed or suitable for culinary purposes.
- (informal) In progress, happening.
- (of an alcoholic drink) Cheap; better suited for use in recipes than drinking.
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Examples of "cooking" in Sentences
- Now that's what I call cooking two birds with one recipe!
- The series examines the history of American cooking and foods.
- A food defrost and cooking apparatus includes a drum and a stand.
- The ideas of yin and yang are used in the sphere of food and cooking.
- Our only standard of taste in cooking is personal appetite and caprice.
- The one that relates to cooking is to find a really, really good recipe for hot and sour soup.
- Now this is what we call cooking with gas! by karmacounselor on Thursday, Dec 24, 2009 at 7: 51: 30 AM
- Though he has made his name cooking Italian food, he occasionally calls upon his French training, he said, "to just make a dish better."
- But the big money in cooking is on the corporate side, where multi-national corporations do a big volume of prepared and pre-cooked foods, in addition to their restaurant chains.
- Surely honesty, sobriety, and steadiness must have grown dreadfully scarce qualities, that one puts up with such a cook; especially as her cooking is as careless as the rest of her doings.
- I’m never ever going to be able to hoard all of Barbara’s cooking from the rest of the world by trying to play off of her underdeveloped sense of gastronomic genius, and telling her he cooking is awful and I have to save her reputation by eating it all up.
- MasterChef has given us so much: the idea that shouting at each other from close proximity is a reasonable way to debate, the phrase "cooking doesn't get tougher than this", and now the chance to take part in a holiday 'cook-off' in the style of the TV show.
- Roger Trew, who had ascended the ladder with his bundle of bedding, deposited it in the room my uncle pointed out, and forthwith commenced unlashing it; and knowing that he would prove a better assistant to the dame than Oliver and I should, we accompanied my uncle to what he called his cooking-shed, at the back of the house.
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