Cooking Emoji

Food

A silver-colored frying pan containing a single sunny-side-up egg being cooked over a flame. The egg whites are spread across the bottom of the skillet, with a bright yellow yolk resting in the center.

Usage Context

Used to talk about cooking at home, eating breakfast, or indicating that you are currently preparing a meal. It is frequently sent alongside 🥓 for a complete breakfast vibe or 👨‍🍳 to signal that someone is working in the kitchen.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of the initial emoji wave meant to digitize common kitchenware and cooking actions. Before this, similar icons were standard in Japanese mobile carrier sets to help users communicate dinner plans via SMS.

Details

Glyph

🍳

Unicode

U+1F373

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f373:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF73;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Food

Subcategory food-prepared

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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