Its official Unicode name is cooking, filed under cooked / prepared in the food & drink group. Keyboards find it when you search for “breakfast”, “easy”, “egg”, “fry”, “frying”, “over”.
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Questions
What does the cooking emoji mean?
🍳 is the cooking emoji, part of the “cooked / prepared” set in food & drink. It is used for breakfast, easy, egg, fry, and its exact tone depends on the conversation.
How do I copy and paste the cooking emoji?
Tap the Copy button on this page and paste 🍳 anywhere. On a keyboard, search your emoji panel for “breakfast”.
When was the cooking emoji added?
It arrived in Emoji 0.6, part of the original set carried over from Japanese phone carriers. Support depends on your phone’s software version.
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