How to Use cook-off in a Sentence

cook-off

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• Wear your green and enjoy green Jell-O shots, chili cook-off and more.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 13 Mar. 2024
• The cook-off was held at Zeke’s Restaurant in Orange Beach.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 14 June 2023
• Expect cooking demos, a jerk cook-off, and a seafood throw-down.
  — Ann Trieger Kurland, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
• Terlingua is also home to two renowned chili cook-offs, which bring in thousands each fall.
  — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 31 Mar. 2023
• Expect at least two chili cook-offs in San Francisco and Morgan Hill.
  — Jay R. Brooks, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
• On April 21, Rubio’s hosted its first fish taco cook-off in the test kitchen at its Carlsbad headquarters.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2023
• What: Catfish cook-off, live music, food, games, photo booth, climbing wall and more.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 13 Sep. 2023
• People come from continents away to partake of these meals and even invite Dodin and his household to cook-offs.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024
• Always held the third weekend of August, the event of 22 years hosts BBQ cook-offs, food competitions, live music and more.
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 19 Mar. 2024
• The three-day fest located on 18th Street and includes an open-air mercado and outdoor mole cook-off.
  — Shanzeh Ahmad, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2023
• They each host a regional cook-off that will culminate in Madison.
  — Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 30 May 2023
• Featured will be a parade, carnival rides, beer tent, rib cook-off, bags tournament, arts and crafts fair and the Miss Libertyville Pageant.
  — Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2023
• Plans for the event include a chili cook-off, crawfish, inflatables, kid's activities, karaoke and more.
  — Special To The Camden News, Arkansas Online, 24 Feb. 2023
• In addition to the famous crab soup cook-off, try out the new Naptown Seafood Sampler featuring eight samples from Maryland restaurants, plus a drink, for $25.
  — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• Saturday’s cool breeze brought the promise of fall to Clarkson Park Saturday, where sweet and tangy barbecue recipes were tested during the annual rib cook-off.
  — Gina Grillo, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• The always popular event is largest one-day chili cook-off in the country according to the International Chili Society.
  — Heather McRea, Orange County Register, 2 June 2024
• The two-day event will also include an array of food and beverage demonstrations, cook-off competitions and panel discussions.
  — Mariya Moseley, refinery29.com, 11 Oct. 2023
• Her plans include hosting a local band showcase, a community barbecue cook-off, and an event highlighting local gospel artists and radio stations.
  — The Arizona Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
• General admission tickets include passes to the multiple stages hosting the music performances and conversations with special guests as well as food and beverage demonstrations and cook-off competitions.
  — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 19 July 2023

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cook off

2 of 2 verb

• As the meat roasts, the sheet pan allows the cider to cook off without steaming the meat.
  — Melissa Clark, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2022
• Sprinkle the flour over the beef and cook, stirring, to cook off the raw flavor of the flour, about 1 minute.
  — cleveland, 1 July 2020
• Sprinkle the flour into the pan and mix to combine, then add the brandy and cook off. Add the stock.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 28 Mar. 2023
• Add sherry to deglaze the pan and cook off the alcohol.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 28 Mar. 2023
• If there’s some liquid left in the pan, remove the top pan and let the liquid cook off.
  — Bettina Makalintal, Bon Appétit, 4 Jan. 2022
• Let the vodka cook off and reduce before stirring in the cream.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2023
• Or have some fun with the food and consider a virtual cook off.
  — Aly Walansky, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• Alcohol will cook off, and lemon juice can take on rancid notes.
  — M. Carrie Allan, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023
• The lid should fit the pot securely, yet still allow some steam to escape so that moisture can cook off in soups and stews.
  — Nicole Papantoniou, Good Housekeeping, 9 Nov. 2020
• The shirataki will release quite a lot of liquid, as they are stored in water, so take a minute to cook off the liquid until the pan is dry.
  — Chihiro Tomioka, Bon Appétit, 20 May 2022
• Here’s hoping next year’s cook off will be live, tasty and a bit heated in flavor and competition.
  — cleveland, 7 Feb. 2021
• The fire cooked off a haul of vinyl chloride—the chemical that makes PVC (polyvinyl chloride) plastic and is also a carcinogen—and bathed the area in a plume of smoke loaded with highly toxic chemicals.
  — WIRED, 18 Feb. 2023
• Either carefully light with a match and flambé, reducing heat and shaking pan or simply allow alcohol to cook off, one minute or so.
  — Kim Sunée, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2022
• One possibility is that, rather than being the result of a cataclysmic collision, ultrashort-period rocky worlds such as GJ 367b could be the remnant iron cores left behind when stellar effects cook off the gassy envelopes of migrating giant planets.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 2 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024