cooked off; cooking off; cooks off
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Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 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
Austen Erblat, CBS News, 28 Nov. 2025
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
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Noun
Similar to Tournament of Champions, chefs on the festive version 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, 13 Nov. 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
Firefighters will let a fire burning at an outdoor gun range in southern Colorado burn out on its own due to concerns of unfired ammunition cooking off.
—Austen Erblat, CBS News, 28 Nov. 2025
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
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“Cook-off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cook-off. Accessed 4 Dec. 2025.
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