"bad cooking" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which food is prepared poorly. For example: "The restaurant's bad cooking was so bad that none of us could finish our meals."
It doesn't matter whether it's good cooking or bad cooking.
Back then, he said, prosecutors would use a woman's poor housekeeping skills and bad cooking to justify her husband's abuse.
This week in the magazine, Rebecca Mead, in "Food, Glorious Food!," discusses the baby steps the British are taking away from their tradition of gruesomely bad cooking.
It is the same with food: in countries with a superior cuisine — France, Italy, China — allowing for regional variations based on climate, everybody eats the same diet, though the rich have more of it and more often; in nations famous for bad cooking — England, the U.S. — rich and poor have utterly different food cultures).
He came up the stairs and saw my hands with this huge wrapping of gauze around them, and I told him, 'Mr. Miller, I've had a very bad cooking accident.' How could I say, 'Mr. Miller, it's eczema from my nerves, from coping with you.' So he sat down, and it was pretty stunning for him.
Maybe they don't like it when others talk about how their grandmother makes clothes for him/her, or maybe the liar hates talking about their bad cooking.
Tap water in Bray is rich in calcium, which makes it good to drink but bad for cooking, he said.
Always use appropriate care and equipment when working with hot stoves and ovens, hot oil, etc. Go easy on the spices and dried herbs, especially when you don't know their flavor strengths.Too much of a good thing is bad when cooking.
The main courses can be real show-stoppers, when the kitchen does not slip into the bad habit of cooking fish medium-well rather than medium-rare.
Intuitively, if you think the bad chef is cooking, then a mediocre appetizer will be pleasantly surprising (positive prediction error, dopamine burst), whereas the same appetizer will be unpleasantly surprising (negative prediction error, dopamine pause) if you think the good chef is cooking.
