Definitions
having been prepared for eating by the application of heat
Word origin
From the past tense of the verb cook.
Used in a sentence
“Select this button only if you’re 200 percent sure that the files are cooked and that you want to overwrite the originals with the uncooked versions.”
“Another cause of poor MP3 playback—especially when the sound is “gurgly”—is a “cooked” file. This means that at some point, the MP3 file has been transferred over the Web as an ASCII text file rather than a binary file.”
“[S]upposed to sound, it may have been cooked. Cooking is a type of mangling that occurs when a server sends an audio file as text rather than as a binary file.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Heated for eating”6 letters
02“Prepared with heat”6 letters
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