I.
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ excellent , good , gourmet ( esp. AmE ), great , wonderful
▪
He's a very good ~.
▪ amateur ( esp. BrE ), home
▪
easy recipes for home ~s
▪ professional
▪
She wants to become a professional ~.
▪ fry ( AmE ), short-order
▪
He found work as a short-order ~ in a local diner.
II.
verb
ADVERB
▪ fully , thoroughly , well
▪
Make sure you ~ the meat well.
▪ perfectly
▪
The vegetables were ~ed perfectly.
▪ evenly , gently , slowly
▪
Turn the fish over so that it ~s evenly.
▪ quickly
PHRASES
▪ be ~ed through
▪
Ensure that the meat is ~ed through.
▪ freshly ~ed
▪
the smell of freshly ~ed bacon
Cook is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ bacon , ↑ beef , ↑ book , ↑ cabbage , ↑ carrot , ↑ casserole , ↑ celery , ↑ chicken , ↑ chip , ↑ chop , ↑ dish , ↑ egg , ↑ fish , ↑ food , ↑ ham , ↑ joint , ↑ lunch , ↑ meat , ↑ mushroom , ↑ onion , ↑ pancake , ↑ pasta , ↑ pea , ↑ pie , ↑ potato , ↑ recipe , ↑ rice , ↑ salmon , ↑ sausage , ↑ seafood , ↑ soup , ↑ spaghetti , ↑ steak , ↑ turkey , ↑ vegetables