COOKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cooked mean? 

• COOKED (adjective)
  The adjective COOKED has 1 sense:

1. having been prepared for eating by the application of heat

  Familiarity information: COOKED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COOKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having been prepared for eating by the application of heat

Similar:

overdone (cooked too long but still edible)

well-done ((meat) cooked until there is no pink meat left inside)

wafer-like (resembling a thin crisp wafer)

toasted (browned over by exposure to heat)

sunny-side up ((eggs) fried on only one side)

steamed (cooked in steam)

souffle-like (resembling a souffle)

soft-boiled ((eggs) having the yolk still liquid)

seared (having the surface burned quickly with intense heat)

saute; sauteed (fried quickly in a little fat)

roast; roasted ((meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven)

ready-cooked (cooked in such a way as to be ready for sale)

rare-roasted ((meat) roasted with the meat inside still rare)

parched (toasted or roasted slightly)

pancake-style (cooked as pancakes are cooked)

au gratin (cooked while covered with browned breadcrumbs (and sometimes cheese))

medium ((meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside)

lyonnaise (cooked with onions)

hard-boiled ((eggs) cooked until the yolk is solid)

hard-baked (baked until hard)

deep-fried; fried (cooked by frying in fat)

done (cooked until ready to serve)

candy-like (resembling candy)

burned; burnt (ruined by overcooking)

broiled; grilled (cooked by radiant heat (as over a grill))

braised (cooked by browning in fat and then simmering in a closed container)

boiled; poached; stewed (cooked in hot water)

batter-fried (fried in batter)

barbecued; grilled (cooked over an outdoor grill)

baked ((bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven))

Antonym:

raw (not treated with heat to prepare it for eating)

 Context examples 

Coffee, without cream or milk, he had twice a day, in the evening substituting tea; but both coffee and tea were excellently cooked.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I found the mess to consist of indifferent potatoes and strange shreds of rusty meat, mixed and cooked together.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You can roast it by the fire, since your tastes are so peculiar that you prefer cooked food, and then you will have a very good breakfast.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Then he went before the king, and he asked him who had cooked the soup.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The dinner itself was neither well served nor well cooked, and the gloomy presence of the taciturn servant did not help to enliven us.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“We’d start with our swingle-bars touching, and we’d have your dinner ordered, cooked, laid, and eaten before you were there to claim it.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The powder form of the cooked navy bean with potential antioxidant and chemopreventive activities.

(Navy Bean Powder, NCI Thesaurus)

It may also be possible to catch bird flu by eating poultry or eggs that are not well cooked or through contact with a person who has it.

(Bird Flu, NIH)

Parboiling rice in-the-husk is the traditional method by which rough rice is soaked in water and then partially cooked to nutritionally improve it and make it easier to process or store.

(Parboiling husked rice reduces arsenic content, SciDev.Net)

In some way, your other half will surprise you with something he or she has cooked up for you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)