cooked off; cooking off; cooks off
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Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
The festival also has live music, a vendor market, beer garden, a chili cook-off with local restaurants and a kids costume parade.
—Lulu Jaeckel, Twin Cities, 6 Oct. 2025
Patricia S York, Southern Living, 9 Nov. 2025
Note how the heating happens before the bacteria is added, so the probiotics don’t get cooked off.
—Isabel Vasquez Rd Ldn, Health, 1 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Just like the year-round version, chefs fight in a bracket-style competition and are thrown curveballs by the randomizer, a lottery-style machine used on TOC that determines the protein, produce, equipment, cooking style and time set for each cook-off.
—Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
The festival also has live music, a vendor market, beer garden, a chili cook-off with local restaurants and a kids costume parade.
—Lulu Jaeckel, Twin Cities, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
The key to this classic is making sure cook off all the liquid in the summer squash, because no one wants a watery casserole.
—Patricia S York, Southern Living, 9 Nov. 2025
Note how the heating happens before the bacteria is added, so the probiotics don’t get cooked off.
—Isabel Vasquez Rd Ldn, Health, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Cook-off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cook-off. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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