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Collocations for cook - noun

ADJECTIVE

excellent, good, gourmet (esp. AmE), great, wonderful
He's a very good cook.
amateur (esp. BrE), home
easy recipes for home cooks
professional
She wants to become a professional cook.
fry (AmE), short-order
He found work as a short-order cook in a local diner.

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Collocations for cook - verb

ADVERB

fully, thoroughly, well
Make sure you cook the meat well.
perfectly
The vegetables were cooked perfectly.
evenly, gently, slowly
Turn the fish over so that it cooks evenly.
quickly

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PHRASES

be cooked through
Ensure that the meat is cooked through.
freshly cooked
the smell of freshly cooked bacon

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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

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