Re: Cars - What does "cooking" mean to you?

[crofty1984]

In my eyes before reading PH I always considered the "cooking" model to be the fastest as in "now we're really cooking [with gas]".
Though it seems lots of people think it's the poverty spec versions.

???

[curlie467]

Cooking model, bottom of the range.

[PoleDriver]

curlie467 said:

Cooking model, bottom of the range.

Same as cooking Sherry... You wouldn't want to drink it!

[B'stard Child]

crofty1984 said:

In my eyes before reading PH I always considered the "cooking" model to be the fastest as in "now we're really cooking [with gas]".
Though it seems lots of people think it's the poverty spec versions.

???

We've done this before

Over 30 - it's the cheap low performace version of a faster car

XSi rather than GTi

Under 30 - seems to be the view that it's the hot version of a lower performance car

GTi rather than XSi

But that was last time!!!

[Defcon5]

I thought the same as the OP, but it appears it is in fact the base spec, as in 'cooking wine' not being good enough to drink out of the glass

[otolith]

As above, I've always taken it to be analogous to "cooking sherry".

[B'stard Child]

cooking hot or not - linky

Where it was done last time

125 Phr's responded

- 72% said slow version

- 28% said hot version

certainly surprised by how few poll results - do the polls not work on an iphone

Edited by B'stard Child on Monday 2nd July 16:55

[Disastrous]

It means 'another 10 pager of arguing over which is correct.'

The previous posters are right, though. It means the basic version. Like cooking wine.

[crofty1984]

B'stard Child said:

crofty1984 said:

In my eyes before reading PH I always considered the "cooking" model to be the fastest as in "now we're really cooking [with gas]".
Though it seems lots of people think it's the poverty spec versions.

???

We've done this before

Over 30 - it's the cheap low performace version of a faster car

XSi rather than GTi

Under 30 - seems to be the view that it's the hot version of a lower performance car

GTi rather than XSi

But that was last time!!!

Hooray! I'm a younger person!!!

Also, one should never cook with a wine one wouldn't be happy to serve to one's guests.

[B'stard Child]

crofty1984 said:

B'stard Child said:

crofty1984 said:

In my eyes before reading PH I always considered the "cooking" model to be the fastest as in "now we're really cooking [with gas]".
Though it seems lots of people think it's the poverty spec versions.

???

We've done this before

Over 30 - it's the cheap low performace version of a faster car

XSi rather than GTi

Under 30 - seems to be the view that it's the hot version of a lower performance car

GTi rather than XSi

But that was last time!!!

Hooray! I'm a younger person!!!

Also, one should never cook with a wine one wouldn't be happy to serve to one's guests.

Waste of good wine ^ I normally cook with whatever the guest bought last time cos I certainly wouldn't drink it......

[SturdyHSV]

crofty1984 said:

Hooray! I'm a younger person!!!

It would appear so am I, the idea of it meaning like 'cooking wine' never occurred to me.

[MGZRod]

After a couple years of ownership, 'cooking' means you own an MG, usually temperate related...

I'd go with bottom of the range, though i'm 19...

[Rutter]

I've always thought a base spec car was referred to as vanilla but can see the cooking analogy as in cooking lager/wine.

[otolith]

crofty1984 said:

Also, one should never cook with a wine one wouldn't be happy to serve to one's guests.

Absolutely, give the guests the cooking wine, drink the good stuff after they've gone home!

[B'stard Child]

otolith said:

crofty1984 said:

Also, one should never cook with a wine one wouldn't be happy to serve to one's guests.

Absolutely, give the guests the cooking wine, drink the good stuff after they've gone home!

I like the cut of your jib

[MGZRod]

B'stard Child said:

otolith said:

crofty1984 said:

Also, one should never cook with a wine one wouldn't be happy to serve to one's guests.

Absolutely, give the guests the cooking wine, drink the good stuff after they've gone home!

I like the cut of your jib

Get a room and some wine you two...

[ewenm]

crofty1984 said:

Also, one should never cook with a wine one wouldn't be happy to serve to one's guests.

Exactly, cooking with it doesn't get rid of the flavour, it gets rid of (some of) the alcohol. If it doesn't taste good enough to drink, why introduce that flavour to the food?

Cooking - base spec.
Vanilla - unmodified.

[PoleDriver]

Rutter said:

I've always thought a base spec car was referred to as vanilla but can see the cooking analogy as in cooking lager/wine.

I thought that "Vanilla" meant without the straps and plugs?

OOPS wrong forum!

[B'stard Child]

Disastrous said:

It means 'another 10 pager of arguing over which is correct.'

The previous posters are right, though. It means the basic version. Like cooking wine.

Just 4 last time

[fozzymandeus]

John Mortimer frequently used the adjective in his novels:

Rumpole of the Bailey... "...contributes regularly to an ever-increasing bar tab by purchasing glasses of red wine of a questionable quality, to which he refers as ... Cooking Claret".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumpole_of_the_Bailey

So it's the poverty spec version of a vehicle.