How to Use cook-off in a Sentence

cook-off

1 of 2 noun
  • 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 | Lspecker@al.com, 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 | McOlurso@al.com, al, 13 Sep. 2023
  • 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 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
  • Add sherry to deglaze the pan and cook off the alcohol.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 28 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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

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