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Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

auf die Schnauze gekocht

English translation:

cooked to a tee

Added to glossary by David Hollywood
Dec 8, 2017 00:48
6 yrs ago
German term

auf die Schnauze gekocht

German to English Marketing Cooking / Culinary Gastronomy
This is part of a sentence referring to the cooking of Spätzle. The full sentence is "klarer Geschmack und auf die Schnauze gekocht."
Proposed translations (English)
4 +1 cooked to a tee
2 Cooking and winging it
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Discussion

TonyTK Dec 8, 2017:
If you google ... ... "auf die Fresse gekocht", you'll see what it means. Basically, the Spätzle was perfectly al dente.
BrigitteHilgner Dec 8, 2017:
Uncommon expression The only google hits (2) lead to this question. Was this written by a person whose native language is German? (I doubt it.)

Proposed translations

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cooked to a tee

I would say

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to a tee or to a T

People use to a tee or to a T to mean that something is perfectly or exactly right.

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as in the English expression "on the nose" to mean dead right

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perfect

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and in culinary terms "to a tee/T" is just that

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Note added at 1 hr (2017-12-08 01:55:22 GMT)
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if you don't like "cooked", you could go with "prepared"
Peer comment(s):
agree Teangacha (X) : 'cooked to perfection'. I agree with Brigitte. This wasn't written by a German native speaker.
11 hrs
thanks Irene
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you! Based on your answer, I used the wording "cooked to perfection.""
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Cooking and winging it

This solution only works if this really means "frei Schnauze kochen." Hence, the low confidence level. I've never heard of "auf die Schnauze kochen." Perhaps another way of saying "mundgerecht zubereiten?"

So we need more context and German native speakers to weigh in on this one...
Note from asker:
Thank you for your response. The expression doesn't seem to be typical. The known expression is "frei Schnauze kochen," however, it isn't being used in the sense of winging it in this case. I went with "cooked to perfection."
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