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Definition: Cooked |
CookedAdjective1. Having been prepared for eating by the application of heat. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cooked" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cooked The books have been cooked. The ledger and other trade books have been tampered with, in order to show a balance in favour of the bankrupt. The term was first used in reference to George Hudson, the railway king, under whose chairmanship the Eastern Counties Railway accounts were falsified. The allusion is to preparing meat for table. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Cooking is the act of preparing food for consumption. The term is often used in the narrower sense of applying heat to chemically transform a food to change its flavor, texture, appearance, or nutritional properties. When humans mastered fire thousands of years ago, cooking became a widespread cultural feature.
Effects of cooking
Heating can sterilize the food (depending on temperature, cooking time, and technique used), in addition to softening the food by turning collagen into gelatin. 45 to 140°F (or the roughly equivalent range 5 to 60°C) is the "danger zone" in which bacteria thrive, and which must be avoided for safe handling of meat, poultry and dairy products. Refrigeration and freezing do not kill bacteria, but slow their growth.Living foods diet adherents advise against the use of heat in the preparation of food: they believe that temperatures above 106°F (41°C) destroy essential enzymes in the food, which they believe are necessary for proper digestion and nutrition.
Cooking Techniques
Some major hot cooking techniques:
- Baking
- Braising
- FlashBake
- Boiling
- Blanching
- Coddling
- Infusion
- Broiling
- Steaming
- Double steaming
- Poaching
- Simmering
- Pressure cooking
- Vacuum flask cooking
- Frying
- Deep frying
- Hot salt frying
- Hot sand frying
- Pan frying
- Pressure frying
- Sauteeing
- Stir frying
- Roasting
- Grilling
- Searing
- Barbecuing
- Smoking
- Microwaving (colloquially known as "nuking")
Other (cool) preparation techniques
- Brining
- Marinating
- Seasoning
- Pickling
- Drying
- Sprouting
- Grinding (e.g. sesame seeds to produce tahini), chopping, slicing finely, grating, etc..
See Also
Specific techniques and ingredients are often regional. See Cuisine for information about the many regional and ethnic food traditions. Please see food writing for some authors of books on cookery, food, and the history of food.
For recipes, see the list of recipes and the list of cocktails. Also see staple (cooking).
- Vessels for cooking include saucepans, frying pans and woks.
- Food and cooking hygiene
- Food preservation
- Cooking weights and measures (includes conversions and equivalences common in cooking)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cooking."
| Antonym: raw (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cooked |
| Specialty definitions using "cooked": cooked foods supervisor, cooked mode. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cooked": Rasher. (references) |
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Screenplays | She cooked'em just the way I like'em. She cooked them one at a time, all the fixings, none of them conveyer belts, no automatic burger machines, none of that factory stuff, it's just a real hamburger made by a real human being (The Ernest Film Festival; writing credit: Georg Schiemann) This'll be the second one that I've cooked, and believe me, the first one was not the disaster that my family said it was. Those kids had a pretty good time in that ambulance (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) You haven't cooked for me since I was like 7 years old (The Osbournes; writing credit: Liliana Abud; Jaime García Estrada) | |
Lyrics | I cooked a pig in the ground, we got some beer on ice ("All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight"; performing artist: Hank Williams Jr.) We cooked the pig in the ground, we got some beer on ice, ("All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight"; performing artist: Hank Williams Jr.) And momma cooked a breakfast with no hog (It Was a Good Day; performing artist: Ice Cube) We fell asleep, our goose is cooked, our reputation is shot ("Wake Up Little Susie"; performing artist: The Everly Brothers) | |
Movie/TV Titles | He Cooked His Goose (1952) Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds (1978) | |
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(9) color slides show eggs cooked three different ways. (3) two cooked eggs (over easy?) with a salsa garnish, (1) two cooked eggs (over easy?) with a side serving of salsa, (1) two cooked eggs (over easy?) with a parsley garnish, (3) plate of scrambled eggs, (1) omelette with a strawberry garnish. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). | (1) color slide shows a cooked hot dog garnished with mustard. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). | ||
For the past decade astronomers have looked for vast quantities of hydrogen that were cooked ... Credit: NASA. | ![]() | FAIRWEATHER moored at Marine Corps Air Station in Kaneohe Bay. During Hurricane Iwa. Power knocked out to Marine Corps Base. FAIRWEATHER cooked Thanksgiving turkeys for Marine Corps families. Credit: America's Coastlines. | |
![]() | If you decided to take the children picknicking -- and cooked the good things -- and expected ... Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Juice from sugarcane being poured into barrel. It is cooked in vat or still, into sorghum molasses. Racine, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Farmer stirring sorghum molasses which is being cooked in vat. Racine, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Skinning cooked tuna before canning. Columbia River Packing Association, Astoria, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Albany, California. Dehydrated vegetables are cooked and served to workers in the laboratory to test their palatability. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Blindfold test for aroma of cooked dehydrated spinach. Regional agricultural research laboratory, Albany, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Throwing Down" by Michio Takagi Commentary: "A little thing i cooked up with my Digi camera and a few effects added made it for a splash page on a freinds message baord check it at http://flux. rant-on.net." |
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Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | So Sylvie and I had to share the soup between us, and to pretend to enjoy it, for it certainly was very queerly cooked. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | On this cutlet, which he cooked himself, he lived three days |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | In front of one tent a low fitful fire burned and a woman watched a kettle that cooked early breakfast |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Maintain hot cooked food at 140°F or higher. (references) | |
Don’t sample meat before it is fully cooked. (references) | ||
Both cooked and uncooked foods may be implicated if improperly handled. (references) | ||
Economic History | Australia | For its part, the U.S. has concerns about Australian barriers to imports of cooked chicken, fresh salmon, and some fruits; changes in Australian law governing intellectual property protection; and Australian Government procurement practices. (references) |
Political Economy | AUSTRALIA | Concerns remain with Australia's restrictions on California table grapes, Florida citrus, stone fruit, chicken (fresh, cooked, and frozen), pork, apples, and corn. (references) |
Trade | Australia | An IRA was carried out for cooked U.S. poultry, but the resulting cooking times and temperatures are excessively high and would render the product unpalatable. (references) |
Travel | Cote D'ivoire | Meat should always be thoroughly cooked. (references) |
Honduras | Fruits and vegetables must be cleaned carefully and meats cooked well. (references) | |
Costa Rica | Seafood is perfectly safe when properly cooked but it should never be eaten raw. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ALTAR, n. The place whereupon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female tool. They stood before the altar and supplied The fire themselves in which their fat was fried. In vain the sacrifice! -- no god will claim An offering burnt with an unholy flame. M.P. Nopput |
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| "Cooked" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 39.96% of the time. "Cooked" is used about 910 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 39.96% | 364 | 14,842 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 35.78% | 326 | 15,930 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 23.71% | 216 | 20,583 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.55% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 910 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cooked": be cooked ♦ cooked account ♦ cooked food ♦ cooked ham ♦ cooked meat ♦ cooked mode ♦ cooked pork meats ♦ cooked taste ♦ cooked until soft ♦ half cooked ♦ not cooked. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cooked": cooked-meat, cooked-off, cooked-over, cooked-to-order, cooked-up. | |
Ending with "cooked": fresh-cooked, home-cooked, pre-cooked, ready-cooked, well-cooked. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "cooked"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | gaargemaak. (various references) | |
Albanian | i gatuar. (various references) | |
Arabic | مطهو. (various references) | |
Basque | eginda (done). (various references) | |
Breton | poazhet. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | полусуров (half cooked, half-baked, half-done). (various references) | |
Catalan | cuit. (various references) | |
Chamorro | hineksa (cooked rice), gelle'appan chotda (cooked banana). (various references) | |
Chinese | 腍 (be satiated, good-tasting), 烹调 (Cooking, Cuisine), 熟 (done, familiar, ripe, skilled). (various references) | |
Danish | kogt. (various references) | |
Dutch | gekookt (burnt, heated). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kuirita. (various references) | |
Estonian | väheküpsetatud (rare/slightly cooked), läbiküpsetatud (well done/thoroughly cooked). (various references) | |
Finnish | keitettynä. (various references) | |
French | cuit. (various references) | |
French Canadian | cuit. (various references) | |
German | kochte (seethed), gekochte, gekocht (boiled). (various references) | |
Greek | ψητός (grilled, roasted). (various references) | |
Haitian Creole | kuit. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מבושל (stewed), בשל (because of, for, mature, ripe). (various references) | |
Hungarian | teljesen kimerült (all-in, to be done to the world, to be fagged out, to be sewed up), kivan (to be all in, to be done, to be done to the world, to be down, to be fagged out, to be knocked up, to be maxed out, to be played out, to feel used up), fogytán az ereje (to be breaking up). (various references) | |
Indonesian | aron (half cooked rice). (various references) | |
Italian | cotto (baked, boiled, burnt, done). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 煮豆 (cooked beans). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | にしめ, もくじきしょうにん (holy men who abstain from meat and cooked food), カレーうどん (Udon cooked with curry topping), あえもの (cooked salad, vegetable side dish), ろばたやき (food cooked on a grill), めしびつ, かしょく (bright light, eating cooked food, living on fruit, money-making, one's trade or profession, overeating, temporary planting), にえる (to be cooked, to boil, to cook), にもの (food cooked by boiling or stewing), みずたき (cooked in water), にまめ (cooked beans), ぞうに (New Year dish, rice cakes cooked w. vegetables), つぼやき (shellfish cooked in its own shell, sweet potatoes cooked in a crock), でまえもち (boy who delivers cooked food), ぼうだら, まつたけごはん (rice cooked with matsutake), べいはん (cooked rice), きんぴら (finely chopped cooked vegetable), なべもの (food cooked in a pot, stew), たきこみ (cooked with rice), たきこみごはん (rice seasoned and cooked with various ingredients), にあがる (to be thoroughly cooked, to boil up). (various references) | |
Korean | 요리하는. (various references) | |
Malagasy | nandrahoan'ny (cooked by the). (various references) | |
Manx | aarlit (groomed, prepared, qualified). (various references) | |
Mohawk | onon'onhseràri (cooked squash). (various references) | |
Papago | chuchul hithod (cooked chicken). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ookedcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cozinhado. (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | cozidas. (various references) | |
Romanian | gãtit. (various references) | |
Slovene | zapeèeno. (various references) | |
Sotho | phehetse. (various references) | |
Spanish | cocidas. (various references) | |
Swahili | ipikwe. (various references) | |
Swedish | färdigkokt (boiled). (various references) | |
Tagalog | niluto, luto. (various references) | |
Turkish | pişmiş. (various references) | |
Turkmen | biюmek (be cooked). (various references) | |
Xhosa | upheke. (various references) | |
Yucatec | tak'aan (mature, ripe). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 24, Verse 42 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oi de epedwkan autw icquoV optou meroV kai apo melissiou khriou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | At illi obtulerunt ei partem piscis assi et favum mellis |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And hig brohton him dæl gebræddes fisces and beobread; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And thei proferden hym a part of a fisch rostid, and an hony combe. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And they gave him a pece of a broyled fisshe and of an hony combe. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and a honey-comb. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And they gave him a bit of cooked fish. |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 24, Verse 42 |
| Bulgarian | И дадоха му част от печена риба [и меден сок]. |
| Cebuano | Ug siya ilang gihatagan ug isda nga sinugba. |
| Chinese | 他 們 便 給 他 一 片 燒 魚 。 〔 有 古 卷 在 此 有 和 一 塊 蜜 房 〕 |
| Croatian | Oni mu pruže komad peèene ribe. |
| Danish | Og de gave ham et Stykke af en stegt Fisk. |
| Dutch | En zij gaven Hem een stuk van een gebraden vis, en van honigraten. |
| Finnish | Niin he antoivat hänelle palasen paistettua kalaa. |
| French | Ils lui présentèrent du poisson rôti et un rayon de miel. |
| German | Und sie legten ihm vor ein Stück von gebratenem Fisch und Honigseim. |
| Haitian Creole | Yo ofri l' yon moso pwason boukannen. |
| Hungarian | Õk pedig adának néki egy darab sült halat, és valami lépesmézet, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Mereka memberikan kepada-Nya sepotong ikan goreng. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Lalu diberinya Dia ikan goreng sepotong. |
| Italian | Gli offrirono una porzione di pesce arrostito; |
| Korean | 이 에 구 운 생 선 한 토 막 을 드 리 매 |
| Maori | Na ka hoatu e ratou ki a ia tetahi ika, he mea tunutunu, me te honi. |
| Norwegian | Da gav de ham et stykke av en stekt fisk og noget av en honningkake, |
| Portuguese | Então lhe deram um pedaço de peixe assado, |
| Rumanian | I-au dat o bucatq de pewte fript wi un fagur de miere. |
| Russian | пОЙ РПДБМЙ еНХ ЮБУФШ РЕЮЕОПК ТЩВЩ Й УПФПЧПЗП НЕДБ. |
| Shuar | Takui, namaknasha, Míshkincha Súsarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Entonces le dieron un pedazo de pescado asado. |
| Swahili | Wakampa kipande cha samaki wa kuokwa. |
| Swedish | Då räckte de honom ett stycke stekt fisk och något av en honungskaka; |
| Uma | Ratonu-miki bau' uru to ratunu. |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "cooked": miscooked, outcooked, overcooked, precooked, recooked, uncooked. (additional references) | |
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"Cooked" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chooked, cooke, cooki, cooned, cuked, Klokeda, nooked, Ockold, tooked. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cooked" (pronounced kuh"kt) |
| 4 | k uh" k t | overcooked, precooked. |
| 3 | -uh" k t | booked, hooked, looked, rebooked. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-k-o-o" | |
-1 letter: coked, cooed. | |
-2 letters: code, coed, coke, cook, deck, deco, dock. | |
-3 letters: cod, coo, doc, doe, ode, oke. | |
-4 letters: de, do, ed, od, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-k-o-o" | |
+1 letter: crooked. | |
+2 letters: codebook, convoked, cuckooed, recooked, uncooked. | |
+3 letters: chokehold, codebooks, crookeder, crookedly, doohickey, miscooked, outcooked, outrocked, precooked. | |
+4 letters: bootlicked, chokeholds, coldcocked, crookedest, dockworker, doohickeys, doohickies, forelocked, jackbooted, overcooked, peckerwood, woodpecker. | |
+5 letters: bloodsucker, bucktoothed, crookbacked, crookedness, dockworkers, goosenecked, nickelodeon, overstocked, peckerwoods, roadblocked, sockdolager, sockdologer, stockholder, woodpeckers. | |
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