cook off

You heat food so that unwanted liquid or another substance disappears.

• Cook off the extra liquid.
• She cooked off the alcohol before serving the sauce.
• Have all the juices cooked off yet?

How to use it: cook something off (Let the excess water cook off before adding the cream.)

Similar words: evaporate, boil off

Common phrases: cook off liquid, cook off the alcohol, cook off the juices, cook off excess liquid

Too much heat makes ammunition or explosives explode accidentally.

• The fire cooked off the stored ammunition.
• An overheated barrel can cook off a round.
• The shells cooked off as the fire spread.

How to use it: cook off something (The intense heat cooked off the ammunition.)

Similar words: detonate, set off

Common phrases: cook off ammunition, cook off explosives

You heat a liquid containing alcohol as part of making a stronger alcoholic drink.

• They cook off the mash in a still.
• The distiller cooked off another batch yesterday.
• This equipment is used to cook off the fermented liquid.

Similar words: distill

Common phrases: cook off a batch, cook off the mash

You start a grenade’s timer and briefly hold it before throwing it.

• The character can cook off a grenade before throwing it.
• He cooked off the grenade during the battle.
• The game does not allow players to cook off grenades.

Similar words: cook

Common phrases: cook off a grenade, cook off grenades

You accidentally hold a grenade too long after starting its timer, so it explodes before you throw it.

• He accidentally cooked off the grenade in his hand.
• The player cooked off a grenade before he could throw it.
• Holding it too long may cook off the grenade.

Common phrases: cook off a grenade, cook off grenades