Difference between Roasted and Cooked

What is the difference between Roasted and Cooked?

Roasted as a verb is to cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance. while Cooked as a verb is to prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

Roasted

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.

Cooked

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of food, that has been prepared by cooking.Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.

Example sentence: I met my husband through a mutual friend. He invited me over for dinner and cooked this meal that knocked my socks off - and maybe knocked off a few other pieces of clothing off as well.

We hope you now know whether to use Roasted or Cooked in your sentence.

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