home-cooked

home-cooked — adjective

1. prepared in a family kitchen rather than bought from a restaurant or store, and

1.形容詞B1
釋義

prepared in a family kitchen rather than bought from a restaurant or store, and typically eaten at home.

例句

Trang's grandmother always serves home-cooked meals when the family visits on Sundays.

collocation: home-cooked meal / home-cooked dinner / home-cooked food

After a week of eating fast food, Mateo craved a simple home-cooked dinner.

contrast: fast food vs. home-cooked dinner

同義詞
  • homemade

    broader term — can refer to anything made at home, not just food (e.g. homemade furniture)

  • home-style

    describes food that tastes like it was made at home but may actually be from a restaurant

  • from scratch

    emphasises using basic ingredients rather than pre-made ones; can apply even to restaurant cooking

反義詞
  • takeout

    food bought from a restaurant and eaten elsewhere

  • restaurant-made

    prepared in a commercial kitchen by professional cooks

用法筆記

Commonly paired with nouns like meal, food, dinner, lunch, dish, or stew. The hyphen must be kept when the compound appears before a noun.

常見錯誤

❌I prefer home cooked food.
✅I prefer home-cooked food.
💡The compound adjective needs a hyphen when placed before a noun.
❌She ordered a home-cooked dish at the diner.
✅She ordered a home-style dish at the diner.
💡home-cooked describes food made in a private home, not food that just resembles that style in a restaurant.