"Cooking": hot or not?
Poll: "Cooking": hot or not?
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Discussion
Recently I've noticed a flurry of usage of this phrase "the cooking version" when referring to models in a range of cars.
I'd always thought it referred to the 'hot' version - the M3, the XR4, the VTS... but loads of people seem to use it to mean the dull, standard GL, Style or Popular.
Thinking about it, when I talk about 'cooking' whisky or wine I mean the cheap stuff. But in order to cook something you'd need the hot version.
Which is it supposed to be? Gizmo is very confused.
I'd always thought it referred to the 'hot' version - the M3, the XR4, the VTS... but loads of people seem to use it to mean the dull, standard GL, Style or Popular.
Thinking about it, when I talk about 'cooking' whisky or wine I mean the cheap stuff. But in order to cook something you'd need the hot version.
Which is it supposed to be? Gizmo is very confused.
cheap versionGizmo! said:
Recently I've noticed a flurry of usage of this phrase "the cooking version"....
I'd have said it was an old expression which has generally fallen into disuse. Maybe it's due for a revival!Worthy of note is that the modest version of a car is often the best value as the price will be played down to give a nice cheap headline in advertising etc.
Gizmo! said:
Stu R said:
Cooking spec = the everyday stuff.
You wouldn't cook with the Château Pétrus, rather the £4 aldi stuff.
Wouldn't cook with anything I wouldn't drink.You wouldn't cook with the Château Pétrus, rather the £4 aldi stuff.
It means the bog-basic version, as people have said, taken from the idea of cooking materials being lower quality than those that you might eat or drink on their own. This is very very definitely the original meaning of the phrase!
LuS1fer said:
They actually used to sell "cooking sherry" - awful stuff for cooking that you would never drink. Good way to get rid of the rubbish and by calling it "sherry" it gets associated with the good stuff.
Simimlarly "cooking chocolate" is designed with different properties in mind, like ability to melt/mix etc. It doesn't taste good if eaten alone, but is better to cook with than regular "eating chocolate".SWoll said:
VeeDub Geezer said:
Eighteeteewhy said:
I always thought bit meant the "in-between" version. I.e Vauxhall SRI not VXR, or Ford ST not RS.
This.To me it's the "not quite the most sporty" model.
Think Saxo VTR rather than VTS or Ausi S4 rather than RS4.
It may depend on where the word is being used, as I've seen US motor mags refer to the hotter versions as 'cooking'.
cook [koo'k]
verb (used with object)
cook [koo'k]
verb (used with object)
- to prepare (food) by the use of heat, as by boiling, baking, or roasting.
- to subject (anything) to the application of heat.
- Slang . to ruin; spoil.
- Informal . to falsify, as accounts: to cook the expense figures.
- to prepare food by the use of heat.
- (of food) to undergo cooking.
- to be full of activity and excitement: Las Vegas cooks around the clock.
- to perform, work, or do in just the right way and with energy and enthusiasm: That new drummer is really cooking tonight. Now you're cooking!
AndyT77 said:
I don't think it refers to the bog standard version, i think it's more like the 'luke warm' variety. Like someone has said already, stuff like Vauxhall SRI, Ford ST etc.
I'd call those "warm hatches".First came in when the Clio RSi and Fiesta Si were introduced to avoid the high premiums of the 16v and RS Turbo.
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