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The phrase "a decent cook" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who has a satisfactory level of cooking skills, neither exceptional nor poor.
Example: "My friend is a decent cook; she can whip up a tasty meal without much effort."
Alternatives: "a good cook" or "an average cook".
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You're a decent cook then?
She also writes the advice column, "Dear Mama," and is apparently still a decent cook.
In the course of two decades of delusionally casting myself as a decent cook, I had sharpened my knives not once.
If you were a decent cook, you knew at a glance that those deceptively simple recipes would stand up to some guilty tampering — and, as often as not, you discovered that they didn't need it.
Because despite my reputation of being a decent cook, the truth is I know where to buy, how to rip the packaging off and transfer my purchases into fancy yet rustic dishes, and how to cover these newly christened "home cooked meals" with a fresh tea towel with such care it would be impossible for the untrained eye to detect it was not prepared by me.
The pressure to be extraordinary to have self-esteem is actually damaging.[26] Are you a decent cook?
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Just mention it to any decent cook old enough to have had her own apartment in the 1980s and you will get both an eye roll and a nostalgic smile.
I knew how to boil an egg, and more: I was a decent home cook.
Jamie, the only decent cook in that particular house, recalls his flatmate Alex's first attempt at cooking Bolognese.
I'm a serial eater-out, prowling New York for an uncommonly delicious dinner, at a decent price, cooked by someone else.
KoЯn fans are pretty decent cooks—some might say they've got the life.
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