Comment on Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?"
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 6 days agoTrue, but, turn that into I’m cooking up a sandwich, and now the phrase potentially expands its domain to basically mean any kind of food preparation.
The addition if ‘up’ makes it less literal, more jovial and less bounded.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 6 days ago
The phrase expands into any preparation or invention, even ones that clearly do not have anything to do with cooking. e.g. “I’m cooking up a plan to deal with this.”