The difference between Cook and Cordon bleu

When used as nouns, cook means a person who prepares food for a living, whereas cordon bleu means a skillful chef.


Cook is also verb with the meaning: to prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

check bellow for the other definitions of Cook and Cordon bleu

  1. Cook as a noun (cooking):

    A person who prepares food for a living.

  2. Cook as a noun (cooking):

    The head cook of a manor house

  3. Cook as a noun (slang):

    One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

    Examples:

    "Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab."

  4. Cook as a noun (slang):

    A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

  5. Cook as a noun:

    A fish, the European striped wrasse, .

  1. Cook as a verb (transitive):

    To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

    Examples:

    "I'm cooking bangers and mash."

  2. Cook as a verb (intransitive):

    To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

    Examples:

    "He's in the kitchen, cooking."

  3. Cook as a verb (intransitive):

    To be being cooked.

    Examples:

    "The dinner is cooking on the stove."

  4. Cook as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):

    To be uncomfortably hot.

    Examples:

    "Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there."

  5. Cook as a verb (slang):

    To execute by electric chair.

  6. Cook as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.

    Examples:

    "I always cook my [[frag]]s, in case they try to grab one and throw it back."

  7. Cook as a verb:

    To concoct or prepare.

  8. Cook as a verb:

    To tamper with or alter; to cook up.

  9. Cook as a verb (intransitive, jazz, slang):

    To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)

    Examples:

    "Watch this band: they cook!"

    "Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!"

  10. Cook as a verb (intransitive, idiomatic, music, slang):

    To play music vigorously.

    Examples:

    "On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!"

  1. Cook as a verb (obsolete, rare, intransitive):

    To make the noise of the cuckoo.

  1. Cook as a verb (UK, dialect, obsolete):

    To throw.

  1. Cordon bleu as a noun:

    A skillful chef.

  2. Cordon bleu as a noun:

    An award given to such chefs.

  3. Cordon bleu as a noun:

    Thin slices of veal, ham and cheese breaded and sautéed; somewhat like a wiener schnitzel, or Viennese cutlet.

  4. Cordon bleu as a noun: