Cook 🧑‍🍳
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The cook emoji, depicting a person with a chef's hat alongside a frying pan. This emoji is used to express chefs, cooks, and people who cook. Common usage includes 'Want to be a chef🧑‍🍳' 'Chef mode🧑‍🍳' or 'Love cooking🧑‍🍳' This is the gender-neutral version. Added in Unicode 12.1 in 2019 as part of the profession emoji series.

Cooks and chefs are central to the food service industry, working as restaurant chefs, hotel kitchen staff, sushi chefs, French cuisine chefs, Italian, Chinese, Japanese cuisine chefs, and home cooking researchers across diverse global culinary genres. The emoji can represent celebrity chefs like Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver, Massimo Bottura (Italy), Heston Blumenthal, Anthony Bourdain (the late beloved chef-traveler), and Japanese chefs like Susumu Koyama, Tomoya Kawada, and Fumio Yonezawa. The emoji is widely used in cooking videos, recipe posts, restaurant introductions, cooking classes, children's cooking, and family meal content.