Comment on Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?"
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Nope. In English, if it doesn’t involve the application of heat, you ain’t cooking, you’re preparing, making, or other terminology.
Comment on Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?"
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Nope. In English, if it doesn’t involve the application of heat, you ain’t cooking, you’re preparing, making, or other terminology.
LordGimp@lemm.ee 1 month ago
So toasting a sammich is cooking, but making the sammich isn’t?
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Pretty much, yeah. Same as grilling a burger and putting it on bread is cooking despite the bread being pre-made.
Afaik, cooking isn’t limited to applying heat to raw foods.
Might be worth saying that I don’t remember which dictionary the definition came from, and that dictionaries only record language, they don’t prevent changes over time. Which means that usage could have changed enough since the last time I looked at any, and now have a different usage added