cooked off; cooking off; cooks off
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Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025
The festival also has live music, a vendor market, beer garden, a chili cook-off with local restaurants and a kids costume parade.
—Lulu Jaeckel, Twin Cities, 6 Oct. 2025
Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
Pair it with the tortilla press gift set above to get your cook off to a solid start.
—Scott Gilbertson Matthew Korfhage, Wired News, 9 Dec. 2025
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Noun
Similar to Tournament of Champions, chefs on the festive version fight in a bracket-style competition and are thrown curveballs by the randomizer, a lottery-style machine used on TOC that determines the protein, produce, equipment, cooking style and time set for each cook-off.
—Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025
The festival also has live music, a vendor market, beer garden, a chili cook-off with local restaurants and a kids costume parade.
—Lulu Jaeckel, Twin Cities, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
Meanwhile, Mike Conley looks absolutely cooked off the bench.
—Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
Pair it with the tortilla press gift set above to get your cook off to a solid start.
—Scott Gilbertson Matthew Korfhage, Wired News, 9 Dec. 2025
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“Cook-off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cook-off. Accessed 1 Jan. 2026.
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