cooking check

A cook check is when someone — usually online — pauses mid-heat to ask whether their output, argument, or performance is actually as impressive as it feels from the inside. Think of it as a sanity ping: you've been going off, the replies are wild, and you need the group chat to confirm whether you're genuinely cooking or just burning yourself. The phrase leans on slang 'cook' (to perform excellently) and turns it reflexive — a moment of earned self-audit that still reads as confidence.

A vibe assessment to determine whether a situation, person, or plan has crossed into genuinely beyond-saving territory. A cooked check is the moment you pause and honestly ask: is this recoverable, or are we fully cooked? It's used the way a doctor checks a patient — but the diagnosis is usually bad. The term carries dark humor; you're not hoping for good news, you're just confirming what everyone suspects. Often delivered as a rhetorical question right before catastrophe lands.

A quick vibe assessment to determine just how baked someone actually is — or how baked you yourself have gotten without realizing it. A bake check usually involves a simple test: a joke, a math question, trying to remember what you were just talking about. It can also refer to the mutual check-in that happens in a smoke session when everyone pauses to gauge where the group is at before deciding whether to keep going or call it. Necessary, often hilarious, and frequently the moment someone realizes they went way further than intended.