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Half cooking method, half verdict — either way, something got dominated by time and fire.
means Treated with smoke for flavor or preservation, or — in slang — thoroughly defeated, beaten, or destroyed.
from From Old English 'smocian,' to emit or treat with smoke, rooted in the Proto-Germanic 'smukōn' and likely a cousin of words across the Germanic family. The cooking sense is ancient — humans hung meat over fire long before they wrote about it. The slang 'got smoked,' meaning crushed or outclassed, is a modern American extension, leaning on the image of something burned away, gone up in smoke, or left in the dust like exhaust.
- slang origin
- Meaning defeated badly, from gunfire smoke on battlefields
- cold smoke
- Below 90°F preserves without truly cooking food
- ancient hack
- Smoking food predates recorded history by millennia
- flavor science
- Smoke's taste comes from guaiacol and syringol molecules
- glass version
- Smoked glass tints by adding metallic oxides
winston cigarettes — philip morris brand, iconic product placement in mad men, 1950s-present
brisket at franklin barbecue — austin, texas restaurant famous for 12+ hour smoked brisket, lines daily