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:cook:U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F373🧑‍🍳\1F9D1\200D\1F373"\u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F373}"%F0%9F%A7%91%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%8D%B3A person in a chef's hat with a pan, standing for cooking, chefs and making food. In current slang it also points to โlet him cookโ: let someone keep going, because what they are doing is about to pay off.
Home cooks post it with a photo of dinner, and restaurant staff use it about their shifts. Online, ๐งโ๐ณ under a bold idea means trust the process. Pair it with ๐ฅ when the result is good.
โCookedโ on its own means the opposite, done for or in trouble, so โwe're cookedโ is bad news.
Cook ๐งโ๐ณ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person role. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 12.1, released in 2019. It is a sequence that joins ๐ง person and ๐ณ cooking. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :cook:. People also look for it with words like โchefโ.
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