Meaning

(uncountable) The process of preparing food by using heat..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) The process of preparing food by using heat.
2. (countable, rare) An instance of preparing food by using heat.
3. The result of preparing food by using heat.
4. (uncountable) The cheapest available beer for sale in a public house.
5. Designed or suitable for culinary purposes.
6. (informal) In progress, happening.
7. (of an alcoholic drink) Cheap; better suited for use in recipes than drinking.
8. present participle and gerund of cook

Example Sentences

The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]

The cooking took a long time. Fionn built a spit from the ash that the salmon had knocked down.

Of nutritional benefit in cooking is a short cooking time in a minimal amount of water or steaming the vegetables. Yet, there are times when just the opposite, that is lengthy cooking, with plentiful water may be desirable to achieve mild taste–foods such as mild tasting cooked onions may benefit from lengthy cooking and plentiful water.

In the tiny kitchen a dozen men and a boy tried to hush their breathing, and sweltered. For it was very hot, and the pent-up odor of past cookings was stifling to men used to the open

This culinary process is but the first in a series of cookings, of which the intracorporeal cookings constitute the rest.

Historian Madeleine Pelner Cosman addresses the multiple cookings of single dishes in medieval recipes. Why would a veal stew require four changes of pot and five separate cookings?

‘Pint of bitter, please,” said Reggie. ‘Pint of cooking,” said the landlord.

I filled the cooking pot with water.

Word Forms

• cookings

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Use cooking when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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