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precooked

  • past participle
    of precook.
    precook
    verb (used with object)
    to cook (food) partly or completely beforehand, so that it may be cooked or warmed and served quickly at a later time.
  • past tense form
    of precook.
    precook
    verb (used with object)
    to cook (food) partly or completely beforehand, so that it may be cooked or warmed and served quickly at a later time.

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Now, most of the chicken processed at its plants goes into the company’s Tyson-branded frozen, precooked products sold in grocery stores, where demand is growing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Products with mid- to late-October sell-by dates included Sprouts Farmers Market smoked mozzarella pasta salad and Scott & Jon’s shrimp scampi with linguini bowl, a precooked frozen meal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025

Though EBT food assistance prohibits the purchase of precooked items like pizza slices, customers have workarounds: First, Dalia sold the woman a frozen pizza.

From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2024

Packaged ramen that’s easily cooked in hot water at home is called instant noodles; it’s precooked and then dried.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2024

Here in Bat Deng’s market, long homemade wooden tables display dried fish, slabs of pork, yellow naked chickens, green beans, white corn, red tomatoes, orange mangoes, ripe guava, papayas, and some precooked food.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

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