Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?"

I don't think it's cooking unless you are applying heat to cause a chemical reaction. So, making a grilled cheese sandwich counts as cooking, but a BP&J does not.

No, I would call that "preparing". Cooking is the act of using heat to prepare food for consumption.

No, it's food preparation but nothing is being cooked.

Cooking (in the English I was taught) involves the application of heat - frying, baking, roasting, boiling etc are the names for specific ways to do this. A sandwich would be made or prepared.

No one ever says "I'm cooking a sandwich"

IMO, assembling a sandwich from ready-to-eat ingredients without using a stove, oven, microwave, etc. is meal prep, not cooking. If you roast, saute, toast, smoke, or even zap any part of it, now you're cookin'. (Though zapping might just be reheating something that was cooked previously. Ugh, this is more complicated than it should be. English can be frustrating.)

The word cooking, to me, means using heat with a stove. Baking is for the oven. Grilling, is outside on a grill. But a sandwich is only ever "made" in my house. "Will you make me a sandwich?", "I'm making a sandwich"

Good question though. Never thought about it.

The specific language you speak has significant impact here. For some, "to make food* is used to refer to cooking. Where as in English it's not so clear. I prefer the use in terms of survival. IMO, if you can make any food enough to survive you can cook, because in English there is not a better colloquial verb. Though i wouldn't call you 'a cook' or 'a chef' if you can't apply heat to produce edible food from raw.

Depends on the sandwich. If you're constructing a sandwich without using heat, I would consider that "making lunch" or "making dinner" but not explicitly cooking. I'm not sure that the difference matters in any significant situations, though. Why are you asking?

Nope. In English, if it doesn't involve the application of heat, you ain't cooking, you're preparing, making, or other terminology.

It's only cooking if it's done in the Cooke region governed by the Earle of Sandwich. Anything else is sparkling food preparation.

If you cook it, like a grilled cheese, then yes. Otherwise, it’s sandwich arts.

I guess that it depends on context? Typically I wouldn't call it cooking, as it doesn't involve applying heat to the food. But if I were to teach a kid how to cook, then I'd consider it cooking - as teaching them how to prepare a sandwich would be a good start.

I guess it would depend on the type of sandwich

. Peanut butter and jelly? No

A simple cheese sandwich? No

Grilled cheese sandwich? Yes

If someone told me they "cooked themselves a BLT", I'd assume they meant they'd baked the bread, fried the bacon, and emulsified the mayonnaise themselves and the slicing and assembly were just the final parts of the process.

"Cooking" to me, requires the combination of ingredients AND heating them to create a new thing. Making a grilled cheese is basic, but cooking. Slapping meat, cheese and veg on bread is not cooking.

By that logic, salads and sushi aren't cooking.

Cooking is a process of transformation, both physical and symbolic. Combining ingredients intentionally to create something flavorful and nutritious, making a sandwich certainly falls under the act of cooking.

The question is inadequatly phrased. You must describe what kind of sandwich we are speaking of. Unless op is speaking about cold sandwiches exclusively, many sandwiches require cooking.

Croque Monsieur

Grilled Cheese

Cubano

Monte Cristo

Panini

These are just a few that I came up with off the top of my head. I'm sure there are many more.

Put butter on the outside, throw it in a hot pan and grill it. Even go further and get a sandwich press. NOW YOU'RE COOKIN!

Preparing food and cooking food are two different things.

I wouldn't even say making a grilled cheese would be cooking. I don't think heat has anything to do with it. I mean, am I cooking if I'm microwaving a frozen dinner? Are the "cooks" at an Applebee's cooking if all they do is warm up bags of premade food and microwave steaks?

I would say cooking requires you to prepare ingredients, combine them, and cook them.

hm, no, because it is baking instead.

Only if you say sudo.

Entirely context dependent.

Who's cooking tonight? Me, and if it's sandwiches, salad, etc - still counts.

No cooking in the room. Combining sliced bread with sliced cheese out of the bag - doesn't count.

Cooking is simply the preparing of food.

It doesn’t necessarily require the application of heat.

If some one is being proud of a sandwich- let them be proud. We all start somewhere.

edit: to all the people downvoting me: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/cooking

1. the act of a person or thing that cooks.
2. the art or practice of preparing food; cookery.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cooking

1A) the act of preparing food for eating, especially by heating 1B) a manner of preparing food

To say that "cooking" requires heat is inaccurate. It's the usual qualification, but is not necessary in a general sense.

and more to the point: If some one is proud of their sandwich, why would you take that from them? dick move. Even Gordon Fucking Ramsey had to start somewhere.

It you cook the sandwich, the bread, or any part of the filling, yes. If you toast your bread and warm up your ingredients in a pan, why not ? But if you are just cuting and filling. You're assembling a sandwich, not cooking it.

I would say you're making food, not cooking, but like, who cares? If someone says I'm cooking lunch and then comes out with sandwiches I wouldn't really notice it doesn't make sense, but if you say I'm cooking a sandwich, that pokes my brain in the incorrect language department

Ehhh food preparation more than cooking. You're just assembling things. I'm a pro at a good sandwich if I do say so myself. Sometimes I have to cook to make that happen. But a basic sandwich...nah, no cooking involved.

Ya gotta toast it

Only if making the sandwich involves cooking, like a grill cheese or something

Does it take unreasonably long compared to the time to consume the food?

Yes.

Does it use ingredients?

Yes.

Is it worth the effort?

No.

Sounds like cooking to me.

Eh... why are we trying to gatekeep cooking?

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