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Idk I feel like they have a bit of a different meaning.
“Now you’re cooking with gas” feels like you just hit the Nos button and are supercharged
But when I hear “let him cook” or “she’s cooking” It’s more in the context of a slow simmer/wait for the good thing.
Probably just personal semantics or my exposure to how it’s being used by the general public.
To be fair, I'm much close to the age of the manager in the story than the young person, so I probably don't have the best grasp on the modern meaning of "cooking." I just associated it with the phase I already knew.
TIL
Honestly I’m absolutely no expert either. It’s just slowly been seeping into the vocabulary of a few gamers I watch on YouTube.
I’m open to be corrected if anyone has a clearer definition.
"Let Russ Cook" was a catchphrase in the NFL a few years ago, talking about Russell Wilson. There's even a Know Your Meme entry on it which says:
This apparently originated from a 2019 tweet but can be traced back to:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/let-russ-cook
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/let-him-cook-let-that-boy-cook
In a way, it feels like we worked backwards to "cooking." I've heard "cooking with gas" for ages, but just "cooking" feels more recent.
Tbf, they're kind of the same thing, but at different levels of speed/intensity.
If your friend is working on something and they're in the zone, they're cooking like a trendy zoomer. If they're absolutely plowing through whatever project they're working on, then they're cooking with gas like a crusty gen-x-er.
What about whatever it was that the Rock was cooking? We didn't have smell-o-vision back then so I never found out what it was.