different between cookers vs cookery

English

Noun

cookers

1. plural of cooker

Anagrams

• Crookes, recooks

English

Etymology

From Middle English cokerie, kokery, equivalent to cook +? -ery.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?k??i/

Noun

cookery (countable and uncountable, plural cookeries)

1. The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.

   Synonym: cooking

   Henry was not very good at cookery and most of his meals ended up burned.

   • 1475, Kenelm Digby, The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened, subtitle:

     together with excellent directions for cookery, as also for preserving, conserving, candying, &c.

2. (obsolete) A delicacy; a dainty.
   • 1839, John Espy Lovell, "Fish out of water", Rhetorical Dialogues, page 335:

     I've got a bit of cookery that will astonish him — my marinated pheasants' poults a la braise imperiale.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of R. North to this entry?)

3. (obsolete) Cooking tools or apparatus.

Synonyms

• (art of preparing food): See culinary art