cookblocker
Anyone who intervenes in the kitchen with their unwanted opinion whilst one is trying to cook their dish. This also includes but is not excluded to the taking over of cooking duties and or sabotaging an already perfect dish by secretly adding their own shitty ingredients
Girl: Man what is that guy in Ratatouille doing to that already perfect soup dish?
Guy: He's totally a cookblocker; look at what he's doing to the soup with those shitty herbs.
Girl: Who would do such a thing?
Guy: Idk, he's like a ginger.
Girl: Point made.
Guy: He's totally a cookblocker; look at what he's doing to the soup with those shitty herbs.
Girl: Who would do such a thing?
Guy: Idk, he's like a ginger.
Girl: Point made.
Cookblocking
The act of using up ingredients in the fridge so another cannot cook what they intended to
Me: Jim where's the cheese?
Jim: Oh I ate it.
Me: God damn it Jim stop cookblocking me!
Jim: Oh I ate it.
Me: God damn it Jim stop cookblocking me!
Cookblock
(Verb) Acting like T. Cook by making things: proprietary, serialized (when one component is paired with another via serial numbers), difficult or impossible to repair (glueing components together, making exclusive deals with component manufacturers).
Engaging in consumer-unfriendly practices.
Engaging in consumer-unfriendly practices.
I wanted to replace my laptop's cracked screen, but the company Cookblocked me by making me buy an entire lid assembly instead of just the panel.