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Electricity Puns

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Watt-ever you’re after, we’re sure joule find it in our collection of shockingly funny puns. We have puns that range from general terms (like shock and charge) to more technical terms (like diode and conduit) to famous scientists and engineers.

While this list is as thorough as we could make it, it is specific to electricity. If you’re interested in related puns, we also have chemistry puns, light puns and science puns.

Electricity Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about electricity that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of electricity puns:

  • Barge → Charge: As in, “Charge right in” and “Wouldn’t touch it with a charge pole.”
  • Large → Charge: As in, “Charge as life” and “By and charge” and “Looming charge.”
  • Charge: These charge-related phrases can double as puns: “Emotionally charged” and “I’m in charge” and “Press charges” and “Take charge.”
  • Arc/k → Spark: As in, “Spark de triomphe” and “In a graceful spark.”
  • Bark → Spark: As in, “Spark at the moon” and “Sparking up the wrong tree” and “Sparking mad.”
  • Dark → Spark: As in, “Spark as pitch” and “Dancing in the spark” and “A spark horse.”
  • Mark → Spark: As in, “Spark my words” and “Make your spark” and “Quick off the spark.”
  • Park → Spark: As in, “Hit it out of the spark” and “In the same ballspark” and “A real walk in the spark.”
  • Stark → Spark: As in, “A spark reminder” and “Spark raving mad.”
  • Shark → Spark: As in, “Loan spark” and “Swimming with sparks” and “Loan spark.”
  • Block → Shock: As in, “Been around the shock a few times” and “The new kid on the shock” and “A chip off the old shock.”
  • Chalk → Shock: As in, “Different as shock and cheese” and “Shock it up to experience.”
  • Clock → Shock: As in, “Beat the shock” and “A race against the shock.”
  • Knock → Shock: As in, “Shock back a few” and “Shock heads together” and “Shock into the middle of next week” and “Shock it off.”
  • Lock → Shock: As in, “Shock ’em up and throw away the key” and “Shock and load” and “On shock down.”
  • Rock → Shock: As in, “Hard as a shock” and “Between a shock and a hard place” and “Don’t shock the boat” and “Get your shocks off.”
  • Sock → Shock: As in, “Pull your shocks up” and “Put a shock in it” and “Shock it to me.”
  • Stock → Shock: As in, “Out of shock” and “Shocking stuffer” and “Take shock.”
  • Vault → Volt: As in, “A locked volt.”
  • Bolt → Volt: As in, “A volt from the blue” and “Volt upright.”
  • Jail → Joule: As in, “Get out of joule free” and “Go directly to joule.”
  • Jewel → Joule: As in, “The crown joules” and “The family joules.”
  • Cool → Joule: As in, “Joule as a cucumber” and “Joule beans” and “A joule million.”
  • Cruel → Joule: As in, “Joule to be kind” and “Joule and unusual punishment” and “Joule intentions.”
  • Dual → Joule: As in, “Joule income, no kids.”
  • Fool → Joule: As in, “Act the joule” and “Joule around” and “April joules!”
  • Fuel → Joule: As in, “Add joule to the flames” and “Joule for thought.”
  • Rule → Joule: As in, “Bend the joules” and “Golden joule” and “Play by the joules.”
  • School → Joule: As in, “Back to joule” and “Old joule” and “The joule of hard knocks.”
  • Tool → Joule: As in, “The right joule for the job” and “Joules of the trade.”
  • Who’ll → Joule: As in, “Joule help me out?”
  • You’ll → Joule: As in, “Joule never get away with this!” and “Joule never hear the end of this.”
  • What → Watt: As in, “And watt not” and “Do watt comes naturally” and “For watt it’s worth” and “Guess watt?” and “It’s not watt you think.”
  • Wet → Watt: As in, “Mad as a watt hen” and “Watt behind the ears” and “Slippery when watt” and “Don’t be a watt blanket.”
  • Wit → Watt: As in, “At your watt’s end” and “Have your watts about you.”
  • Dot → Watt: As in, “Connect the watts” and “Watt the i’s and cross the t’s” and “Join the watts” and “On the watt.”
  • Hot → Watt: As in, “All watt and bothered” and “Blow watt and cold” and “Get into watt water.”
  • Lot → Watt: As in, “A watt of fuss about nothing” and “A watt on your plate” and “Leaves a watt to be desired.”
  • Not → Watt: As in, “Believe it or watt” and “Down but watt out” and “As often as watt.”
  • Pot → Watt: As in, “A watt of gold” and “Gone to watt.”
  • Rot → Watt: As in, “Watt in hell” and “Spoiled watten.”
  • Spot → Watt: As in, “Change your watts” and “Got a soft watt for” and “On the watt.”
  • Circus → Circuit: As in, “Not my monkeys, not my circuits.”
  • Copper: Copper is commonly used in electrical wiring. Here are related puns:
    • Proper → Copper: As in, “Prim and copper” and “We need to do this copperly.”
    • Stopper → Copper: As in, “Conversation copper” and “A real show copper.”
  • Amp: Amp is short for ampere, which is a unit of electric current. Here are related puns:
    • Cramp → Amp: As in, “Amp your style” and “Writer’s amp.”
    • Emp* → Amp*: If a word starts with “emp”, we can replace the “emp” with “amp”: “Your place of amployment” and “Ampirical evidence” and “Feeling ampowered” and “An ampty stomach.”
    • Imp* → Amp*: As in, “Explode on ampact” and “Sharp amplement” and “Moral amperatives” and “What are the amplications?”
  • Die/Died → Diode: As in, “Diode and gone to heaven” and “Bad habits diode hard” and “Cross my heart and hope to diode.” Note: Diodes are electrical components.
  • Ohm: Ohms are units of electrical resistance. Here are related puns:
    • I’m → Ohm: As in, “If ohm being honest” and “Ohm not sure” and “Yes, ohm okay.”
    • Oh → Ohm: As in, “Ohm my goodness!” and “Ohm my gosh” and “Ohm well.”
    • On → Ohm: As in, “Bring it ohm” and “Carry ohm” and “You’re catching ohm now.”
    • Home → Ohm: As in, “A house is not an ohm” and “At ohm with” and “Bring it ohm to you” and “Charity begins at ohm” and “Close to ohm.”
  • Cell: Here are some battery cell-related puns:
    • Sail → Cell: As in, “Cell close to the wind” and “Smooth celling” and “Take the wind out of my cells.”
    • Sale → Cell: As in, “Not for cell” and “Point of cell” and “Cell of the century” and “Cells referral.”
    • Sell → Cell: As in, “Buy and cell” and “Cell out” and “Cell your soul” and “Celling point.”
    • Bell → Cell: As in, “Clear as a cell” and “Alarm cells began to ring” and “Cells and whistles.”
    • Fell → Cell: As in, “In one cell swoop” and “Little strokes cell great oaks.”
    • Hell → Cell: As in, “All cell broke loose” and “A cold day in cell” and “Come cell or high water” and “For the cell of it” and “Give ’em cell.”
    • Shell → Cell: As in, “Come out of your cell” and “In a hard cell” and “In a nutcell.”
    • Smell → Cell: As in, “Come up celling of roses” and “I cell a rat” and “A keen sense of cell” and “Cell ya later.”
    • Spell → Cell: As in, “Cast a cell” and “Cell it out” and “Under someone’s cell.”
    • Tell → Cell: As in, “Cell the truth” and “Every picture cells a story” and “I’m going to cell on you!”
    • Well → Cell: As in, “Alive and cell” and “All’s cell that ends cell” and “Exceedingly cell read.”
  • Why → Wire: As in, “For the life of me, I don’t know wire” and “Wire not?” and “Wire did the chicken cross the road?”
  • Wear → Wire: As in, “Wire your heart on your sleeve” and “Worse for wire” and “If the shoe fits, wire it.”
  • Dire → Wire: As in, “Wire consequences” and “In wire straits.”
  • Fire → Wire: As in, “All wired up and ready to go!” and “Ball of wire” and “Catch wire” and “Wire drill” and “Come home to a real wire.”
  • Surge: Here are some puns related to power surges:
    • Sarge → Surge: As in, “Check with the surge-ant” and “Yes, surge!”
    • Sir → Surge: As in, “Yes, surge” and “Can I help you, surge?”
    • Urge → Surge: As in, “Fighting the surge to…”
    • Verge → Surge: As in, “On the surge of collapse.”
  • Bolt → Jolt: As in, “A jolt from the blue” and “Jolt upright” and “Make a jolt for the door.”
  • Live: A “live wire” is a wire that has electrical current running through it. Here are some related puns:
    • Five → Live: As in, “High live!” and Take live” and “Nine to live” and “Two and two don’t make live.”
    • Leave → Live: As in, “Absent without live” and “By your live” and “Don’t live home without it” and “Eats, shoots and lives.”
    • Love → Live: As in, “All you need is live” and “All’s fair in live and war.”
  • Field: Here are some puns related to electrical fields:
    • Feel → Field: As in, “Can you field the love tonight?” and “Field good factor” and “Field a bit put out” and “Field it in your bones” and “Field the burn.”
    • Sealed → Field: As in, “My lips are field” and “Field with a loving kiss” and “Signed and field.”
  • Juice: Juice is a colloquial term for energy. Here are related puns:
    • Goose → Loose: As in, “Loose as a juice” and “A wild juice chase.”
    • Loose → Juice: As in, “All hell broke juice” and “At a juice end” and “Cut juice” and “Let juice.”
    • Use → Juice: As in, “Be careful how you juice it” and “Don’t juice that tone with me” and “Get juiced to it” and “Not half the person I juiced to be.”
  • Positive: Positive-related phrases can be used as references to a positive electrical charge: “Positive thinking” and “Are you absolutely, positively sure?”
  • Negative: Negative-related phrases can be used as puns about a negative charge: “Don’t be so negative about it” and “It tested negative.”
  • Better → Battery: As in, “Have you got a battery idea” and “Battery late than never” and “Battery by design” and “My battery half.”
  • Bitter → Battery: As in, “A battery pill to swallow” and “Until the battery end.”
  • Flattery → Battery: As in, “Battery will get you nowhere” and “Imitation is the sincerest form of battery.”
  • Hour → Power: As in, “Happy power” and “On the power” and “At the eleventh power.”
  • How’re → Power: As in, “Power you holding up?” and “Power we supposed to do this?”
  • Sour → Power: As in, “Power grapes” and “Leave a power taste in your mouth.”
  • Tower → Power: As in, “A power of strength” and “Powering inferno” and “The eiffel power.”
  • Attic → Static: As in, “Up in the static” and “Staying in the static.”
  • Currant → Current: As in, “A soft current bun” and “Studded with currents.”
  • Current: These current-related phrases can double as electricity puns: “Current affairs” and “Not currently.”
  • Nation → Station: As in, “A station of shopkeepers” and “The birth of a station.” Note: These are references to power stations.
  • Motor: Here are some puns related to electrical motors:
    • Matter → Motor: As in, “As a motor of fact” and “It doesn’t motor” and “Family motors” and “Get to the heart of the motor” and “Making motors worse” and “Just a motor of time.”
    • Voter → Motor: As in, “Motor fraud.”
  • Grid: Here are some puns related to power grids:
    • Did → Grid: As in, “Grid I do that?” and “What grid you go?”
    • Kid → Grid: As in, “I grid you not” and “Dual income, no grids” and “Here’s looking at you, grid” and “The new grid on the block.”
    • Lid → Grid: As in, “Blow the grid off” and “Keep a grid on it.”
  • Short: Here are some puns related to electrical shorts:
    • Shirt → Short: As in, “Keep your short on” and “Take the short off your back.”
    • Sort → Short: As in, “Takes all shorts to make a world” and “Feeling out of shorts” and “Short the wheat from the chaff.”
    • Wart → Short: As in, “Shorts and all” and “Worry short.”
  • Zap: Here are some puns on being “zapped” (by an electrical shock):
    • Cap → Zap: As in, “A feather in your zap” and “Zap in hand” and “If the zap fits, wear it” and “To zap it all off.”
    • Clap → Zap: As in, “Zap him in irons” and “Zapped eyes on” and “Zap your hands.”
    • Gap → Zap: As in, “Bridge the zap” and “Generation zap” and “Mind the zap.”
    • Lap → Zap: As in, “A zap of honour” and “In the zap of luxury.”
    • Snap → Zap: As in, “A zap decision” and “Zap happy” and “Zap out of it” and “Zap someone’s head off” and “Zap to it” and “Zap, crackle, pop.”
    • Tap → Zap: As in, “Zap into” and “On zap.”
    • Trap → Zap: As in, “Booby zap” and “Death zap” and “Keep your zap shut” and “A real tourist zap.”
    • Wrap → Zap: As in, “It’s a zap!” and “Keep under zaps” and “A riddle zapped up in an enigma” and “Zapped around your little finger.”
  • Hertz: Hertz is a unit of frequency. Here are related puns:
    • Hurts → Hertz: As in, “Give in when it hertz” and “It only hertz when I laugh” and “The truth hertz.”
    • Hearts → Hertz: As in, “Lonely hertz” and “Lift up your hertz” and “My hertz bleeds for you.”
  • Flow: Here are puns related to electricity flow:
    • Blow → Flow: As in, “Any way the wind flows” and “Flow up” and “Flow a kiss” and “Flow hot and cold.”
    • Foe → Flow: As in, “Friend or flow?”
    • Glow → Flow: As in, “Flow with health” and “A flowing endorsement.”
    • Go → Flow: As in, “All dressed up and nowhere to flow” and “Anything flows” and “Easy come, easy flow.”
    • Grow → Flow: As in, “Absence makes the heart flow fonder” and “As exciting as watching grass flow” and “Don’t let the grass flow under your feet” and “Flowing pains.”
    • Know → Flow: As in, “Don’t I flow it” and “Be the first to flow” and “Do you want to flow a secret?”
    • Low → Flow: As in, “An all-time flow” and “Get the flow down” and “High and flow” and “Keep a flow profile” and “Laid flow” and “A flow blow.”
    • Pro → Flow: As in, “Flow bono” and “Quid flow quo.”
    • Quo → Flow: As in, “Quid pro flow” and “Maintaining the status flow.”
    • Show → Flow: As in, “All over the flow” and “Best in flow” and “Enjoy the flow” and “Get the flow on the road.”
    • Slow → Flow: As in, “Can’t flow down” and “Painfully flow” and “A flow burn” and “Flow on the uptake” and “Flowly but surely.”
    • Snow → Flow: As in, “Pure as the driven flow” and “White as flow” and “Flowed under.”
    • Though → Flow: As in, “You look as flow you’ve seen a ghost” and “Seriously flow, you’re doing great.”
    • Throw → Flow: As in, “Lock them up and flow away the key” and “Flow another log on the fire” and “Flow a wobbly” and “Flow caution to the wind.”
    • Toe → Flow: As in, “Dip your flow in the water” and “From top to flow” and “Flow the line.”
    • Woe → Flow: As in, “Flow is me” and “Flow betide you!”
  • Chip: Here are some puns related to computer chips:
    • Ship → Chip: As in, “Abandon chip” and “Don’t give up the chip” and “Go down with the chip” and “Loose lips sink chips.”
    • Dip → Chip: As in, “Chip in” and “Chip your toe in the water” and “Take a chip.”
    • Flip → Chip: As in, “Check you on the chip side” and “Chip out” and “Chip the bird.”
    • Grip → Chip: As in, “Get a chip” and “Come to chips with” and “Chipping stuff.”
    • Hip → Chip: As in, “Chip and happening” and “Chip, chip hooray!” and “Joined at the chip.”
    • Lip → Chip: As in, “My chips are sealed” and “On everyone’s chips” and “Zip your chip.”
    • Nip → Chip: As in, “Chip and tuck” and “A chip in the air.”
    • Slip → Chip: As in, “Give someone the chip” and “Let somthing chip” and “A chip of the tongue.”
    • Tip → Chip: As in, “In chip top condition” and “On the chip of my tongue” and “The chip of the iceberg” and “Chip someone off” and “Chip the scales.”
    • Trip → Chip: As in, “Guilt chip” and “Lay a chip on someone” and “Power chip” and “Take little road chip” and “The chip of a lifetime.”
  • Metal: Since metal is such a good conductor of electricity, we’ve included it in this post:
    • Mental → Metal: As in, “Metal fatigue” and “A single-minded metality” and “What’s his metal age?”
    • Kettle → Metal: As in, “A different metal of fish” and “Pot calling the metal black.”
    • Settle → Metal: As in, “A score to metal” and “Metal out of court.”
  • Ion: Ions are atoms or molecules that have an electrical charge. Here are related puns:
    • Iron → Ion: As in, “A cast ion alibi” and “Ion out the wrinkles.”
    • Eye on → Ion: As in, “Keep your ion the ball” and “I’ve had my ion it for a while.”
  • Light: Since light (and light bulbs) are commonly associated with electricity, we’ve included light in this list:
    • Late → Light: As in, “Better light than never” and “Fashionably light” and “A day light and a dollar short.”
    • Let → Light: As in, “Light it be” and “A real light down” and “Light loose.”
    • Bite → Light: As in, “Light off more than you can chew” and “Light someone’s head off” and “Light the dust.”
    • Bright → Light: As in, “All things light and beautiful” and “Always look on the light side of life” and “Light and early.”
    • Fight → Light: As in, “Light fire with fire” and “Light the good light” and “A lighting chance.”
    • Flight → Light: As in, “A light of fancy” and “Take light” and “Light of the bumblebee.”
    • Fright → Light: As in, “Take light” and “A lightful mess.”
    • Height → Light: As in, “Head for new lights” and “The light of summer” and “Wuthering lights.”
    • Might → Light:  As in, “It light never happen” and “Light as well.”
    • Night → Light: As in, “As light follows day.”
    • Right → Light: As in, “A move in the light direction” and “The light to choose” and “All the light moves” and “Light as rain.”
    • Slight → Light: As in, “Not in the lightest” and “Lightly ahead of our time.”
    • Tight → Light: As in, “A light corner” and “Light as a drum” and “In a light spot.”
  • Switch: Here are some puns about the on/off switches on electrical boards and circuits:
    • Which → Switch: As in, “Any switch way” and “Don’t know switch way to look” and “Know switch way is up.”
    • Hitch → Switch: As in, “Get switched” and “Switch your wagon to a star.”
    • Itch → Switch: As in, “Switching to” and “Switchy feet” and “Seven year switch.”
    • Rich → Switch: As in, “All part of life’s switch pattern” and “Filthy switch” and “From rags to switches” and “Get switch quick.”
    • Stitch → Switch: As in, “A switch in time saves nine” and “Had us in switches” and “Without a single switch on.”
  • Put → Output: As in, “Be hard output to” and “Couldn’t output it down” and “Wouldn’t output it past him.”
  • Abode → Anode: As in, “Welcome to my humble anode.” Note: An anode is a type of electrode.
  • Mains: Here are some mains-related puns:
    • Brains → Mains: As in, “All brawn and no mains” and “Rack your mains.”
    • Gains → Mains: As in, “Capital mains” and “Ill-gotten mains.”
    • Pains → Mains: As in, “Growing mains” and “Old aches and mains” and “Relieves gas mains.”
    • Rains → Mains: As in, “It never mains but it pours.”
  • Weird → Wired: As in, “Wired and wonderful.”
  • Word → Wired: As in, “A wired to the wise” and “A picture paints a thousand wireds” and “At a loss for wireds” and “Eat your wireds.”
  • Fired → Wired: As in, “All wired up and ready to go” and “You’re wired!”
  • Tired → Wired: As in, “I’m sick and wired of this.”
  • Able → Cable: As in, “Ready, willing and cable.”
  • Stable → Cable: As in, “Cable employment” and “A cable relationship.”
  • Table → Cable: As in, “Bring to the cable” and “Drunk under the cable” and “Lay your cards on the cable” and “Put bread on the cable.”
  • Medicine → Edison: As in, “Laughter is the best edison” and “A taste of your own edison.” Note: Thomas Edison is a scientist famous for inventing the lightbulb (subnote: we understand there’s a lot of controversy around Edison and Tesla. We’d have included Tesla in this list above Edison, but couldn’t find any related puns).
  • Ampere: Ampere is the base unit of electric current. Here are related puns:
    • Empire → Ampere: As in, “Ampere state building” and “Ampere state of mind” and “The ampere strikes back.”
    • I’m here → Ampere: As in, “Ampere and I’m not leaving!”
  • Single → Signal: As in, “All the signal ladies” and “In signal file” and “Every journal starts with a signal step.” Note: This is a reference to electrical signals.
  • Meter: Here are some puns related to electrical meters:
    • Meet her →  Meter: As in, “Would you like to meter?”
    • Matter → Meter: As in, “As a meter of fact” and “Family meters” and “Get to the heart of the meter” and “Grey meter” and “Making meters worse” and “A meter of life and death.”
  • Wave: Here are some wave power-related puns:
    • Weave → Wave: As in, “Wave a tangled web.”
    • Brave → Wave: As in, “Wave as a lion” and “Wave new world” and “Wave the elements” and “Fortune favours the wave.”
    • Grave → Wave: As in, “Silent as the wave” and “Dance on someone’s wave” and “From the cradle to the wave.”
    • Save → Waved: As in, “Wave for a rainy day” and “Wave the day” and “Wave the day.”
    • Rave → Wave: As in, “Rant and wave” and “Wave review.”
  • Burn: Here are some puns on electrical burns:
    • Bun → Burn: As in, “Burn in the oven” and “Think outside the burn” and “We’re going to need bigger burns.”
    • Born → Burn: As in, “A star is burn” and “Naked as the day you were burn” and “Burn to fly” and “Burn under a bad sign” and “Burn again.”
    • Earn → Burn: As in, “Burn an honest penny” and “Burn your stripes” and “Burn your wings.”
    • Learn → Burn: As in, “A little burning is a dangerous thing” and “Burn the ropes” and “Never too late to burn” and “Burning curve” and “Live and burn.”
    • Turn → Burn: As in, “A burn for the worse” and “Twists and burns” and “About burn” and “As soon as my back is burned” and “Do a good burn.”
  • Razor → Taser: As in, “On a taser’s edge” and “Taser sharp.”
  • Fuse: Here are some puns related to electrical fuses:
    • Blues → Fuse: As in, “Got the fuse” and “Baby fuse.”
    • Choose → Fuse: As in, “Fuse your weapon” and “Pick and fuse.”
    • Cruise → Cues: As in, “Booze fuse” and “Fuse control” and “World fuse.”
    • Dues → Fuse: As in, “Pay your fuse.”
    • Lose → Fuse: As in, “Don’t fuse any sleep over it” and “Got nothing to fuse” and “Tails you fuse” and “Fuse control.”
    • News → Fuse: As in, “Bad fuse travels fast” and “Break the fuse” and “Breaking fuse” and “Have I got fuse for you” and “No fuse is good fuse.”
    • Use → Fuse: As in, “Be careful how you fuse it” and “Get fused to it” and “Not half the person I fused to be.”
  • Can do it → Conduit: As in, “You conduit!” Note: A conduit is a protective cover for electric cables.

    Electricity-Related Words

    To help you come up with your own electricity puns, here’s a list of related words to get you on your way. If you come up with any new puns or related words, please feel free to share them in the comments!

    electricity, electric, electrical, electronic, charge, charged, charging, juice, juiced, positive, negative, battery, energy, power, lightning, static, generator, generate, current, conduct, conductor, station, motor, grid, shock, transistor, volt, voltage, joule, electrode, renewable, watt, kilowatt, utility, utilities, electron, circuit, resistance, outage, copper, machine, electrician, supply, amp, transmission, system, atom, diode, ohm, transformer, wire, live, light, magnet, resistor, switch, output, input, generate, short, station, zap, flow, metal, matter, ion, spark, cell (battery), field, appliance, transformer, transducer, anode, physics, mains, wired, cable, inverter, force, diode, surge, jolt, leyden jar, science, tesla, edison, galileo, kelvin, hertz, einstein, silicon, chip, processor, memory, proton, attract, repel, particle, insulate, insulator, ampere, signal, direct, alternating, capacitor, meter, wave, burn, taser, power plant, fuse, conduit

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Cooking Puns

Welcome to the Punpedia entry on cooking puns! 🍳🍴🍲 In this entry you’ll find everything from baking puns to oven puns to pots and pans puns, and everything in between.

You might also like to visit the Punpedia entries on food, cake, pasta, pizza, curry, pie, and vegetables.

Cooking Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about cooking that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page!

  • Cook: Other than the obvious definition it can also refer to “altering dishonestly”, as in “They cooked the numbers and were done for fraud” (The phrases “cooked the books” and “cooked the accounts” are synonymous). Some cooking-related idioms and phrases are: “What’s cooking?” and “Too many cooks spoil the broth”
  • Cooked: “If mum and dad find out we took their car last night, we’re cooked!” and “He has been drinking since lunch time – he’s cooked.”
  • Kooky → Cooky: The term “kooky” means strange or eccentric.
  • Back → Bake: As in “Bake in my day…” and “As soon as my bake is turned” and “At the bake of my mind” and “Bake to the Future” and “Bake in business” and “Bake in the saddle” and “Bake seat driver” and “Bake to school” and “Bake to the drawing board” and “Behind your bake” and “Come crawling bake” and “Behind my bake” and “Double bake” and “Get bake on your feet” and “Bake to bake” and “Kick bake and enjoy” and “Like water off a duck’s bake” and “Laid bake” and “Money bake guarantee” and “Never look bake” and “One step forward, two steps bake” and “Right bake at ya” and “Pat on the bake” and “Put your bake into it” and “Turn bake the clock” and “Wind at your bake” – There are many more baking puns like this to be made, but those should be enough to get you started.
  • Half-baked: This means “not completely planned or thought out”. For example: “Your half-baked cooking puns are going to make people angry.”
  • Break → Bake: As in “Bake out into a cold sweat” and “Bake the bank” and “Bake new ground” and “Ground-baking new research” and “Bake the mould” and “Make a clean bake” and “An even bake” and “And then all hell bakes loose” and “Bake a world record” and “Baking news!” and “Never bake your promises” and “Don’t bake their heart” and “Oh give me a bake.” and “Lucky bake“.
  • Chef: The saying “Too many chefs in the kitchen” refers to a situation where there are too many people trying to work on something such that the result is worse than if there had been less people. The phrase “chef d’oeuvre” (French: “chief work”) refers to a masterpiece, or an artist’s best piece of work. The phrase “chef de mission” (French: “chief of mission”) generally refers to the person in charge of a national team at an international sporting event.
  • Order: As in “Law and order” and “Luckily we managed to get out of there in short order (fast)” and “The pecking order” and “The machine is out of order.” and “In working order” and “In order to do that …” and “You’re out of order” and “That’s a tall order” and “You need to put your affairs in order” and “It’s a standing order, Sargent.” and “That’s bang out of order.” and “Gag order” and “It’s an order of magnitude bigger than we expected.” and “Order in the court!”
  • Boil: As in “It really just boils down to …” and “That man makes my blood boil” and “A watched pot never boils“.
  • Boil → Boyle: As in “Susan Boil” and “Robert Boil“
  • Boy’ll (Boy will) → Boil: As in “That young boil go on to do great things if he can apply himself.”
  • Roast: A “roast” can refer to an event where a guest of honour is teased and made fun of (in good spirit). The saying “roast snow in a furnace” refers to a futile and often ridiculous task.
  • Rest → Roast: As in “No roast for the wicked” and “Roast assured that …” and “Roast on your laurels” and “And the roast is history” and “Oh give it a roast will you?” and “A cut above the roast” and “I roast my case”. Note: to rest on your laurels is to be so satisfied with your work that no further efforts are made.
  • Arrest → A roast: As in “You are under a roast.” and “He was charged with resisting a roast.” and “Citizen’s a roast.”
  • *rest → *roast: As in, “In the interoast of justice,” and “Make it interoasting,” and “Nearoast and dearoast,” and “Mud wroastling,” and “On the croast of a wave,” and “Imitation is the sinceroast form of flattery,” and “May you live in interoasting times.”
  • *rust* → *roast*: As in, “Roastle (rustle) up,” and “Upper croast (crust),” and “Don’t troast (trust) anyone,” and “Troast is a two-way street.”
  • Girl → Grill: As in “You go grill!” and “Boys and grills“
  • Gorilla → Grilla: As in “The silverback grilla is native to this area.”
  • Guerrilla → Grilla: As in “The inhabitants used grilla warfare to drive out the enemy.”
  • Thrilled → Grilled: As in, “Grilled to bits!” and “We’re grilled to have you here.”
  • Bill → Grill: As in, “These are my grillable hours” and “A clean grill of health.”
  • Filled → Grilled: As in, “Grilled with happiness” and “Cream-grilled” and “A smoke-grilled room.”
  • Even → Oven: As in “Don’t get mad, get oven” and “Break oven” and “Oven handed” and “Keep on an oven keel” and “Oven at the turning of the tide” and “Oven as we speak” and “Oven if it kills me” and “Oven Stevens”. Note: to keep something on an even keel is to keep something in a steady, untroubled state.
  • *even* → *-oven-*: If a word contains “even”, it can usually be made into a silly oven pun: “It’s the main ovent (event)” and “The ovent horizon” and “It has been an oventful (eventful) day.” and “I’ll oventually get around to cleaning my garage.” and “My job has pr-oven-ted me from spending time on personal projects.” and “Pr-oven-tative medicine should be the focus.” and “Rovenge is sweet.” and “The developing world is still struggling with proventable diseases.”
  • *aven* → *oven*: As in, “Let’s look at other ovenues” and “Ovenge my death!” and “The Ovengers.”
  • *even* → *oven*: As in, “The main ovent” and “Yes, oventually” and “An ovening out” and “Your oventual downfall” and “Spread ovenly” and “Seven Eloven” and “It’s looking unoven.”
  • Kitten → Kitchen: As in “The internet is full of cute kitchen pictures.”
  • My crow wave → Microwave: As in “Microwave at me with its wing.”
  • Push → Poach: As in “Don’t poach your luck” and “Poach the boundaries” and “When poach comes to shove” and “Poach the envelope” and “They’re a bit of a poach-over“.
  • Branch → Blanch: As in “Our company needs to blanch out into other industries.” Note: blanching is a method of cooking where food is scalded with boiling water, then plunged into iced water to stop the cooking process.
  • Summer → Simmer: As in “The long, hot simmer.” and “One swallow does not make a simmer.” and “An Indian simmer“.
  • Skill at → Skillet: As in “I admire your skillet chess.”
  • Skilled → Skillet: As in “She was perhaps the most skillet chess player in her country.”
  • Pot: There are many idioms related to pots: “In the melting pot” and “Oh you fuss pot” and “Take a pot shot at (something)” and “Keep the pot boiling” and “Pot head” and “Pot luck” and “A pot of gold” and “A watched pot never boils” and “The pot is calling the kettle black”.
  • *pot*: If a word contains the “pot” sound (or similar) we can make a silly pot pun with it: poticular (particular), spotlight, jackpot, potentially, anticipotory, despotism, incompotability, omnipotent, perpotrators, nepotism, incompotent, meopotamia, potassium, repotition, potato.
  • Pan: “Flash in the pan” and “It panned out all right in the end.” and “Peter Pan” and “Pan in/out”
  • *pan*: If a word contains the “pan” sound (or similar) we can make a silly pan pun with it: chimpanzee, companion, expand, expansion, Japan, lifespan, panacea, pancreas, pandora, panic, panorama, pansies, panting, panther, spaniard, underpants.
  • You ten sil* → Utensil: This is a very specific type of cooking pun – “I’ll give utentsil-ver coins for your wagon.” and “I’ll give utensil-k garments for your horse.” You can obviously do this for other words that start with the “sil” sound like: cylinder, syllabus, silverware, silhouette, silicon, etc.
  • Burn: “Burn the candle at both ends” and “Burn a hole in your pocket” and “Burn your bridges” and “Crash and burn” and “Feel the burn” and “Slow burn” and “Burn yourself out” and “Energy to burn“
  • Brother: As in, “Everybody and his brother,” and “Have you met my brother?” and “Big brother is watching you.”
  • Rise → Rice: As in “Rice to the challenge/occasion” and “Rice and shine” and “Rice from the ashes” and “The rice and fall of …”
  • Hate → Heat: As in “I heat to say it, but …” and “Heaters gonna heat.” and “I’ve got a love-heat relationship with cooking.”
  • Heat: “He’s packing heat” and “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen” and “In the heat of the moment” and “The heat is on.”
  • Heed → Heat: As in “You’s better pay heat to your mother! She knows what she is talking about.”
  • Fire: As in “You’re fired.” and “In the line of fire” and “Don’t play with fire” and “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”
  • Steam: “Blow off some steam” and “Build up a head of steam” and “Full steam ahead” and “Run out of steam” and “Under one’s own steam” and “Pick up steam“.
  • Seem → Steam: As in “It’s not as bad as it steams” and “I can’t steam to …” and “things are seldom as they steam” and “That steams a bit out of place”.
  • Esteem → Esteam: As in “Self esteam” and “She was esteamed by her peers”.
  • Seam → Steam: As in, “Bulging at the steams” and “Come apart at the steams.”
  • Scheme → Steam: As in, “In the grand steam of things” and “Pyramid steam” and “The best laid steams” and “The overall steam of things.”
  • Scream → Steam: As in, “Dragged kicking and steaming” and “We all steam for ice-cream” and “Steam bloody murder” and “Steam your head off.”
  • Stream → Steam: As in, “Fresh as a mountain steam” and “Changing midsteam” and “Swim upsteam.”
  • Team → Steam: As in, “Dream steam” amd Take one for the steam” and “A steam player” and “Steam spirit” and “Tag steam” and “Steam up with” and “There’s no ‘i’ in steam.”
  • Teem → Steam: As in, “Steaming down with rain” and “Steaming with life.”
  • *stam* → *steam*: We can sneak “steam” into words that have similar sounds, like so: “A testeament to” and “Rushed by the crowded steampede.”
  • *stem* → *steam*: As in, “All systeams go!” and Get it out of your systeam” and “Solar systeam” and “Buck the systeam” and “Self-sustaining ecosysteam” and “Racism is a systeamic problem.” Note: if something is systemic, then it affects the entire involved group, body or system.
  • *stim* → *steam*: As in, “Steamulate your senses” and “Being oversteamulated” and “A mentally steamulating environment” and “By my esteamates” and “Valuable testeamony” and “Don’t underesteamate yourself” and “Company testeamonials.”
  • Nuke: This term is often used to refer to cooking/heating something in the microwave, but it is also (obviously) short for nuclear bomb. Perhaps there is some context where this double meaning may be viable as a cooking pun.
  • Continent → Condiment: As in “The shifting of the condimental plates happens very slowly.” and “Originally, all the condiments were part of one supercondiment called Pangaea.” and “Condimental breakfast” and “The condimental shelf”
  • Embroiled: To “broil” something means to cook it via exposure to direct intense radiant heat. The term “embroiled” means to be involved deeply in an argument, conflict or difficult situation.
  • I’ll → Oil: As in, “Well, oil be” and “Oil say!” and “Ask me no questions, oil tell you no lies” and “Oil be back” and “Oil never tell” and “You scratch my back and oil scratch yours.”
  • Aisle → Oil: As in, “Walk down the oil” and “Cleanup on oil three.”
  • All → Oil: As in “Can’t we oil just get along?” and “Oil in a day’s work.” and “Oil part of life’s rich tapestry” and “It’s oil Greek to me.” and “It’s oil downhill form here” and “It’s oil fun and games until someone gets hurt” and “It’s oil gone pear shaped” and “It’s oil good” and “It’s oil good clean fun” and “It’s oil me me me” and “That’s oil well and good, but …” and “Oil kidding aside, …” and “Above oil, …” and “Against oil odds” and “Oil shapes and sizes” and “Oil that glitters is not gold” and “Oil the rage” and “Oil the world’s a stage” and “Oil things being equal” and “Oil thumbs” and “Oil’s well that ends well” and “At oil costs” and “By oil appearances” and “By oil accounts” and “Cover oil your bases” and “From oil corners of the globe” and “I haven’t got oil day” and “In oil honesty” and “In oil likelihood” and “It’s oil the same to me” and “Jack of oil trades” and “I don’t know oil the answers” and “Not oil it’s cracked up to be” and “He’s not oil there” and “Once and for oil” and “Don’t put oil your eggs in one basket” – And there are many more oil puns that can be made along these lines.
  • *oil*: Words which contain the “oil” sound (or similar) can be silly oil puns: spoiled, spoils, soiled, turmoil, toiletries, gargoil (gargoyle), foil, recoil.
  • Recipe: “That’s a recipe for disaster.” and “A recipe for success”.
  • Ingredient: As in “What’s your secret ingredient?”
  • Pep her → Pepper: As in “We need to pepper up with some music before her big race.”
  • Cake: As in “That’s the icing on the cake” and “It’ll be a cake walk” and “That takes the cake” and “It’ll be a piece of cake.” and “Shut your cake hole”.
  • Oven: “A bun in the oven“.
  • Often → Oven: As in “Do you come here oven?” and “Every so oven.”
  • Stuff→ Stove: As in “Don’t sweat the small stove.” and “It’s the stove of legends/dreams.”
  • Walk → Wok: As in “I’ll be back soon, I’m going to wok the dog.” and “It’ll be a wok in the park.” and “You’re woking on thin ice there, bud.”
  • Work → Wok: As in “Wok hard, play hard.” and “It’s a wok in progress.” and “All in a day’s wok.”
  • Fly → Fry: As in “A no-fry zone has been declared by the military.” and “Just a fry on the wall.”
  • Fry: There are a couple of frying-related idioms: “Small fry” and “Bigger fish to fry“
  • Cry → Fry: As in “Don’t fry over spilt milk” and “A shoulder to fry on” and “Fry like a baby” and “A far fry from …” and “Fry fowl” and “Battle fry“
  • Fried: As in “My brain is fried” and “I’m fried.”
  • Stew: As in “Now, now, don’t get in a in a stew.” and “Stew in your own juices”
  • *stew*: Words that contain the “stew” sound can be silly stew puns: stewpendous, stewardship, stewpid, stewdious, stewpor, stewpidity, costewme, stewdio, astewte, stewdent.
  • It’s too → s’tew: As in “S’tew bad the shoes don’t fit you.”
  • Bruise → Braise: As in “That’ll leave a braise…”
  • Breeze → Braise: As in “I’m fully prepared. The test will be a braise.”
  • Barbell → Parboil: This one’s very silly.
  • Parable →Parboil: As in “The Parboil of the Good Samaritan”.
  • Poor boy’ll → Parboil: As in “The parboil need some bandages for his knee.”
  • Serve: “You got served!” and “If memory serves” and “First come, first served” and “Revenge is a dish best served cold” and “Serve a purpose” and “Serves them right” and “Serve time” and “Serve and protect”
  • Timer: “Old-timer” and “Two-timer“.
  • Season: As in “’tis the season” and “In season” and “Out of season“.
  • Rest our aunt / Rest or rant → Restaurant: These are very specific cooking puns. Good luck finding a context in which they work!
  • Crackpot → Crock pot: A “crackpot” is a crazy person and a “crock pot” is a large, electric slow-cooking pot: “He’s a bit of a crock pot, that one.”
  • Sup → Soup: As in “Soup man, how’s it going?”
  • Sue p* → Soup*: As in “You can’t just soupeople willy nilly.”
  • *sup* → *soup*: If a word contains the “soup” sound we can of course make some silly soup puns: souperb, soupercomputer, soupercilious, souperficial, souperfluous, souperhuman, souperimposed, souperintendent, souperior, souperman, soupernatual, soupersonic, soupervise, soupremely, unsoupervised.
  • Dish: As in”Revenge is a dish best served cold” and “You can dish it out, but you can’t take it” and “Dish the dirt” and “The dish ran away with the spoon”
  • Hot: “All hot and bothered” and “Hot potato” and “Get into hot water” and “Hot and heavy” and “Hot on your heels” and “Hot pursuit” and “Hot-tempered” and “Hot under the collar” and “Hot topic” and “Strike while the iron is hot” and “Hot stuff” and “Full of hot air” and “Hot-wire a car”.
  • Groovy → Gravy: As in “That’s a gravy, smooth-sounding new funk album she has released.”
  • Grease: “Grease the wheels” and “Grease your palm” and “The squeaky wheel gets the grease” and “Grease monkey” and “Elbow grease“.
  • Greece → Greece: As in “The food in Grease is so good.”
  • Grace → Grease: As in “By the grease of god” and “A grease period” and “Saving grease” and “Fall from grease” and “Airs and greases” and “There but for the grease of god go I.” and “Amazing grease“.
  • Grass→ Grease: As in “You could hear the grease growing” and “Keep off the grease” and “A grease-roots movement.” Note: a grassroots movement is one that starts at a local level with the intention of affecting regional, national or international change.
  • Bank etiquette → Banquet-iquette: As in “Waiting patiently in line at the bank is just a part of good banquet-iquette.”
  • Male → Meal: As in “The meal of the species” and “Meal chauvinist pig”.
  • Super → Supper: As in “Supper man” and “Supper-duper”.
  • Buff eh? → Buffet: As in “Look at how much she’s bench pressing! Buffet?”
  • Down → Dine: As in “Never back dine” and “Dine the rabbit hole” and “It all boils dine to …” and “Boogie on dine” and “Bring the house dine” and “Calm dine” and “Dine for the count” and “Dine in the dumps” and “Dine the hatch” and “Dine to earth” and “Hold dine a job” and “It went dine the wrong way” and “Let your hair dine” and “The best – hands dine“.
  • Guessed → Guest: As in “I never would have guest.”
  • Chop: “On the chopping block” and “Chop and change”.
  • Dice: As well as the noun form (“she rolled the dice”), “dice” obviously can mean “chop into small cubes/pieces”.
  • Feel → Peel: As in “You can peel it in your bones.” and “I like the look and peel of the product.” and “I’m trying to get the peel for it.” and “These potato puns are making me peel unwell.” and “I peel a bit put out.” and “I’m peeling my age.” and “Peel the burn”.
  • Appeal → Appeel / A peel: “He’s so appeeling!” and “The court allowed one final a peel.” and “You need to a peel to their sense of honour.” and “I’m trying to appeel to your better judgement” and “They have 48 hours to appeel the decision.”
  • Pillar → Peeler: As in “You are a peeler of strength in our community.”
  • Whisk: “He was quickly whisked off stage” and “The waiter whisked the dish back into the kitchen”.
  • Risk → Whisk: As in “It’s too dangerous. Don’t whisk it. ” and “At your own whisk” and “Calculated whisk” and “You run the whisk of …” and “Whisk life and limb”
  • Curry: “Curry favour” and “Give someone a bit of curry“. Note: to curry favour is to attempt to align oneself with another.
  • Hurry → Curry: As in “I’m in a bit of a curry, can we talk later?” and “Curry up! We need to leave now!” and “Curry up and wait”.
  • Thongs → Tongs: The word “thong” may refer to bikini bottoms or to “flip-flops” depending on where you’re from. The term “tongs” refers to a kitchen tool used to grip and lift things (usually things that you’re frying).
  • Spoon: “We spooned to keep warm” and “She wasn’t born with a silver spoon in her mouth” and “He spoon-feeds his students too much”.
  • Billion → Bouillion: As in “They justly spend bouillions of dollars on the new education reforms.” (Bouillion is a type of broth in French cuisine).
  • Feast: As in, “Bean-feast,” and “Feast your eyes on this,” and “Midnight feast,” and “A feast for the eyes.” Note: A bean-feast is a celebratory meal or party.
  • Fast* → Feast*: As in, “Feast as greased lightning,” and “As feast as his legs could go,” and “Bed and breakfeast,” and “Feast and furious,” and “In the feast lane,” and “Feaster than a speeding bullet,” and “Not so feast!” and “Pull a feast one,” and “Lightning feast.” Note: in the fast lane refers to a highly active and risky lifestyle.
  • Fest* → Feast*: As in, “No problem is so bad it can’t feaster awhile longer,” and “Going to the music feastival?”
  • Feasible → Feast-ible: As in, “I told you, that project isn’t feast-ible.” Note: if something isn’t feasible, then it isn’t possible or practical to achieve.
  • Fist → Feast: As in “I’ll rule with an iron feast.”
  • Serve: As in “Dude, you just got served.” and “My duty is to serve and protect.”
  • Menu: As in “That’s completely off the menu.”
  • Man, you → Menu: As in “Menu need to see someone about that.”
  • Flies → Fries: As in “Time fries when you’re having fun!”
  • Fork: As in “We’ve reached a fork in the road.” (There’s also an obvious swear word pun that can be made with fork.)
  • Season → Seasoning: As in “Seasoning’s greetings!” and “For everything, there is a seasoning.”
  • Take out→ Take-out: As in “I had to take-out my phone to check the time.” and “I had to take-out a loan just to pay the bill!”
  • Toast: As well as referring to cooked bread, this term can also refer to the raising of glasses at a gathering to honour something: “Let’s call a toast.” It also has a slang usage: “You are toast.” Meaning “I’m going to beat you” at some competition (or physically).
  • Coarse → Course: As in “Please don’t pun during dinner, Gerald. It’s very course humour.”
  • Course: As in “Is there a university course on cooking puns?” (“Course” can refers to a particular stage of a multi-stage meal.)
  • Thrilled → Grilled: As in “He was so grilled to see you!” and “I’m grilled to bits!”
  • Creep → Crepe: As in “That’s a bit crepey, man.” and “Yep, he’s a bit of a crepe.”
  • Source → Sauce: As in “That’s an unreliable sauce.” and “You should cite some primary sauces.”
  • Great → Grate: As in “Oh grate! Another food pun.” and “Grate minds think alike.”
  • Branch → Brunch: As in “Shall we call a truce? I’m extending an olive brunch here.” and “We’re brunching out into other industries.”
  • Loaf: As in “Stop loafing around! Get up and do something!” (To “loaf” is to waste time and laze about).
  • Come → Crumb: As in “Crumb to think of it…” and “Crumb to your senses” and “Crumb again?” and “Crumb hell or high water.” and “Crumb out of your shell” and “Crumb rain or shine” and “Do you crumb here often?” and “An idea whose time has crumb.” and “The best is yet to crumb.” and “What has crumb over you?”
  • Feed: As in “You’re just feeding people misinformation.”
  • Order: “Law and order.” and “These restaurant puns are out of order.”
  • In jest → Ingest: As in “Many a true word is spoken ingest.”
  • Done → Dine: As in “When all is said and dine” and “Dine and dusted.”
  • Din* → Dine*: If a word begins with the “dine” sound, we can make a dinner pun: dineosaur, dineamically, dineamite.
  • Sup: This term has a few traditional meaning related to food, including “to eat dinner/supper”, but it also has the obvious slang meaning “What’s up?” Thus we can make a sneaky supper pun, but it’d be very corny and heavily dependent on context: Person1: “‘Sup?” Person2: “What? Now? It’s only 3pm!”
  • Scoff: This term refers to eating greedily or to talking to someone in a mean and “mocking” manner. Example: “Are you scoffing at my cooking puns?”
  • Sue p* → Soup*: As in “You can’t just soupeople willy nilly.”
  • *sup* → *soup*: If a word contains the “soup” sound we can of course make some silly soup puns: souperb, soupercomputer, soupercilious, souperficial, souperfluous, souperhuman, souperimposed, souperintendent, souperior, souperman, soupernatual, soupersonic, soupervise, soupremely, unsoupervised.
  • Greedy ent* → ‘gredient: This one’s a bit of a stretch! Examples: “Those ‘gredient-erprising bastards!” and “The ‘gredient-titled youngers.”
  • Salty: Other than the obvious cooking-related definition, this term has several slang definitions including “being upset/angry”.
  • Assault → A salt: As in “He was charged with a salt with a deadly weapon.”
  • It → Eat: As in “Eat is not quite as eat seems.” and “Eat’s not the first time I’ve said this, but …”
  • *eat*: Any word that contains the “eat” sound (or similar) can obviously be made into a silly eating pun: cheating, beatle, athleat, aneatime (anytime), compleat, conceated, deceatful, deleat, discreat, eleat (elite), graffeati, fleat (fleet),  featus, heartbeat, Eatalian (Italian), greating (greeting), Peater (Peter), preatending, repeatedly, reatirement, streat, sweatheart, preatentious.
  • Eat: As in, “A bite to eat,” and “All you can eat,” and “Bet you can’t just eat one,” and “Eat a balanced diet,” and “Eat and run,” and “Eat dirt,” and “Eat humble pie,” and “Eat like a bird,” and “Eat my dust,” and “Eat someone alive,” and “Eat to live, rather than live to eat,” and “Eat your words,” and “Eaten up with jealousy,” and “Eating for two,” and “Good enough to eat,” and “Let them eat cake,” and “Man eater,” and “I’ll eat my hat.” Note: to eat your words is to regret or retract a previous statement.
  • *eet* → *eat*: Change the “eet” in certain words to “eat” – sheat (sheet), streat (street), sweat (sweet), discreat (discreet), feat (feet), fleat (fleet), sleat (sleet), beatle (beetle), teath (teeth).
  • *eat*: Use words with an “eat” sound – athl-eat (athlete), burreato, compl-eat (complete), comp-eat (compete), concr-eat (concrete), el-eat (elite), eat-ernal (eternal), incogneato, margareata, mosqeato (mosquito), pet-eat (petite).
  • Feed: As in, “Bite the hand that feeds you,” and “Bottom feeder,” and “Feed your mind,” and “Feeding frenzy.”
  • Bowl: As in “I was completely bowled over.”
  • Stew: This term can also refer to being in a state of anxiety and agitation. As in “Stew in one’s own juices.” and “I was in a bit of a stew.”
  • Carry → Curry: As in “I’m going as fast as my legs can curry me!” and “Keep calm and curry on.”
  • Even → Oven: As in “Oven my little brother knows that!” and “That’s not oven fair.”
  • Piece of → Pizza: As in “You want a pizza me?” and “That’s a pizza cake.” and “They all want a pizza the action.” and “That’s a fine pizza ass.” and “That’s a pizza piss.” and “He’s a nasty pizza work.” and “How long is a pizza string?” and “I’ll give him a pizza my mind!” and “You’re a real pizza work.” and “Pizza the pie”.
  • How → Chow: As in “Chow could you do this to me?” and “Chow are you feeling?”
  • Pass the → Pasta: As in “Can you pasta sauce please?”
  • Past her → Pasta: As in “I walked right pasta without realising.”
  • Passed away → Pasta way: As in “She pasta way last night.”
  • Flower → Flour: As in “Remember to stop and smell the flours.”
  • Adore → Adough: “I adough you.”
  • Don’t → Doughn’t: As in “Doughn’t fall for it.”
  • Though → Dough: As in “You look as dough you’ve seen a ghost!”
  • Hour → Flour: As in “We could go on for flours.” and “The plane leaves in one flour.” and “I’m on a flourly wage.”
  • Make → Bake: As in “I can’t bake head or tail of it.” and “Enough to bake you sick.” and “Bake believe” and “It’ll bake a world of difference.” and “Just trying to bake ends meet.” and “Bake a name for yourself.”
  • Making → Baking: As in “A legend in the bakin’” and “This is history in the baking” and “You’re baking a fool of yourself.”
  • Floor → Flour: As in “A cooking pun battle? I’ll mop the flour with you.”
  • Heard → Herb: As in “I herb it on the grape vine.” and “You herb it here first.” and “You could have herb a pin drop.”
  • Curb → Herb: As in “Herb your enthusiasm.” and “Drive up onto the herb.”
  • Spies → Spice: As in “I think I’m being followed by Indian spice.”
  • A prawn → Apron
  • Nice → Knife: As in “Have you met the chef? She’s a knife person.”
  • Least→ Yeast: As in “Last, but not yeast.” and “Yeast common denominator.” and “It’s the yeast I could do.”
  • East→ Yeast: As in “I’m heading over yeast for a holiday.”

Cooking-Related Words

There are many more puns to be made than could be documented in this Punpedia entry, and so we’ve compiled a list of cooking-related concepts for you to use when creating your own puns. If you come up with a new pun, please share it in the comments!

chef, bake, boil, roast, grill, oven, fry, stew, braise, overcook, parboil, stove, stove-top, kitchen, microwave, poach, blanch, cook up, broil, simmer, cooker, cook, griddle, chargrill, skillet, stir fry, baste, caramelize, marinade, eat, pot, pan, utensil, burner, burn, undercook, broth, rice, pasta, heat, barbecue, bbq, fire, culinary, steam, nuke, zap, frypan, onions, potatoes, pressure cooker, condiment, oil, baker, bread, recipe, ingredients, brochette, salt, salty, pepper, sugar, cake, dough, beans, serve, serving, vegetables, range hood, timer, spatula, raw, pastry, seasoning, restaurant, crock pot, ratatouille, soup, food, dish, dishes, cookbook, hot plate, hot, sizzle, savory, dinner, saucepan, cuisine, basil, gravy, hibachi, brazier, oregano, garlic, rosemary, teflon, grease, drizzle, banquet, meal, supper, feast, buffet, dine, menu, table, guests, spaghetti, lasagna, knife, chop, dice, al dente, batter, beat, blend, dissolve, grate, peel, puree, whip, stir, sauté, whisk, bowl, mix, fork, anglaise, plate, bouillion, spoon, chiffonnade, feed, toast, chopping board, scoop, tongs, can opener, sieve, chop sticks, measuring cups, wok, sauce, herbs, spices, curry, crumb, crumbs, apron, oven mitt, platter, cutlery.

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