uncook

To undo the act of cooking.

Verb

  1. To undo the act of cooking.
    • You can't uncultivate anything, in the same way you can't uncook your food. - 2019, Andy Brennan, Uncultivated, page 65:
  2. To repair (an MP3 audio file) that has been damaged ("cooked") by being converted through a text format and having line breaks applied to it.
    • Hi all! I have developed a freeware utility to uncook MP3's... - 1999, y2kilroy, “New Freeware Utility to uncook mp3's!”, in alt.music.mp3 (Usenet):
    • If you "uncook" a file that isn't "cooked" you will just mess it up (and I don't know of any way to fix it then) - so uncooking should be used with caution (I'd suggest never over-writing the original file). - 2000,...

Origin

From un- + cook.

Forms

uncooks uncooking uncooked