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Discover Ludwig"What's cooking?" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to ask what food is being prepared and is often used in informal contexts. For example, someone can ask, "What's cooking for dinner tonight?".
Idiom
What's cooking?
When you ask what's cooking it means you want to know what's happening.
Dictionary
what's cooking
interjection
A greeting, similar to how are you?; what's happening?; what's up?; what's new?
Exact(55)
Mr. Perlman seems as interested in what's cooking as who's playing.
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This is your time to get to know what's cooking in your child's mind.
What's cooking at the Oak Room?
What's cooking this weekend around the city.
I make sure I know what's cooking.
Photograph: Giancarlo Thomae/Caters 3.20pm BST What's cooking?
If that isn't enough bird for you, guess what's cooking?
Similar(3)
Me: "Hmm, guess you never heard the phrase 'what's cooking' before, eh?" Alice: "Are you Canadian?" Food preparation?
As the bad-boy chef, author and food show host Anthony Bourdain put it, people don't care about what's cooking; they care only about who's cooking.
10.06am GMT What's cooking?
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