What does 🍳 Cooking mean?
A frying pan with a sunny-side-up egg. It is used for cooking in general, breakfast and homemade meals. Online slang has given it extra life: “let them cook” means let someone do their thing because they are on a roll, while “we’re cooked” means the situation is hopeless. Pair it with 🔥 when a chef, or a friend, is absolutely killing it.
🍳 Cooking is an emoji from the Food & Drink category (prepared foods), added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010. People use it in messages about breakfast, easy, egg, fry, frying and over.
Example messages
🍳 Cooking on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Cooking looks on each platform.
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Cooking emoji: questions & answers
How do I copy and paste the Cooking emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🍳 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :fried_egg:.
When was the Cooking emoji added?
🍳 Cooking was added in Emoji 0.6, released in 2010. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 🍳 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Cooking. The underlying code (U+1F373) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.