🧑‍🍳 Cook emoji

The cook emoji means a cook, chef, baker, home cook, or culinary worker. Use it for recipes, restaurants, meal prep, baking, food service, dinner plans, and kitchen wins.

It is the gender-neutral cook emoji. For gendered versions, compare 👨‍🍳 Man cook and 👩‍🍳 Woman cook.

Could also be called cook, chef, baker, culinary emoji or kitchen emoji emoji.

Other meanings

Can also mean cooking at home, preparing a feast, working in a kitchen, food creativity, or being in charge of dinner.

Example Usage

Trying a new pasta recipe 🧑‍🍳 Dinner is almost ready 🧑‍🍳 Meal prep mode all afternoon 🧑‍🍳

Related emoji

Professions emojis

• 🧑‍⚕️ Health worker
• 👨‍⚕️ Man health worker
• 👩‍⚕️ Woman health worker
• 🧑‍🎓 Student

Visual description

On iOS, this shows a person wearing a tall white chef hat and chef coat. At small sizes, the white hat is the easiest detail to see.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.