Cooking

What 🍳 means

A frying pan with a fried egg. It means cooking, breakfast and kitchen time.

Home cooks post it when they start a meal, and it pairs with 🥓 for a fry-up. It also tags along with the slang 'let him cook', which means let someone do their thing because it's going well. 'We're cooked' flips the sense to mean doomed.

For the person doing the cooking, 🧑‍🍳 is the match; 🍳 is the pan itself.

Facts

Cooking 🍳 is an emoji in the food and drink category, under food prepared. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 3 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :fried_egg: or :cooking:. People also look for it with words like “breakfast”, “easy”, “egg”, or “fry”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
2. 20162 new emoji built from it (Emoji 4.0)👨‍🍳👩‍🍳
3. 2019New emoji built from it (Emoji 12.1)🧑‍🍳

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

food & drink · Unicode 6.0