When you cook food, you prepare it to be eaten by heating it in a particular way, such as baking or boiling, and when food cooks, it is heated until it is ready to eat:
cook 1. 'cook' If you cook a meal or a particular type of food, you prepare it for eating and then heat it, for example in an oven or saucepan. Lucas was in the kitchen, cooking dinner. We cooked the pie in the oven.
An Alabama church has identified one of the victims killed in Saturday's mass shooting at Brown University as Ella Cook, a student at the university and one of the church's parishioners. Reverend ...
cook 1. 'cook' If you cook a meal or a particular type of food, you prepare it for eating and then heat it, for example in an oven or saucepan. Lucas was in the kitchen, cooking dinner. We cooked the pie in the oven.