A metaphor describing a business strategy, decision, or practice that delivers quick or impressive short-term results, but creates serious long-term problems, liabilities, or risks.
Just as using a lead pan might make food seem fine at first but slowly poisons those who eat it, “cooking with a lead pan” implies that a company or leader is pursuing results that look good now but will prove toxic over time - for the business, employees, or customers.
Just as using a lead pan might make food seem fine at first but slowly poisons those who eat it, “cooking with a lead pan” implies that a company or leader is pursuing results that look good now but will prove toxic over time - for the business, employees, or customers.
“Launching that product without proper testing might look good on the quarterly report, but we’re cooking with a lead pan if we ignore the long-term brand damage.”
“Cutting customer support to save costs is just cooking with a lead pan — we’ll pay for it in churn and reputation later.”
“Cutting customer support to save costs is just cooking with a lead pan — we’ll pay for it in churn and reputation later.”
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Get the Cooking with a Lead Pan mug.A term to signify that someone is wrong in their strange opinion and/or statement; that their brain must have been microwaved to produce such words from their mouth. Analogous to "you're fried", this term has been popularized by small part-time streamers such as "Pikabooirl", and other special content creators.
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Hold on, don't interrupt him, he's cooking.
No, no, I see where this is going — let him cook.
Hold on, don't interrupt him, he's cooking.
No, no, I see where this is going — let him cook.
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Get the Cooked mug.An actor but also someone who takes numerous amounts of L's. Well known for his work in HDHS and Star Warsf ew consider him a success. Although he is quite tall, he unfortunately didn't utilize his height for sports other than recreational soccer. Also despite notoriety he is quite clingy.
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An American basic cable channel owned by and spin-off of Food Network. Both are owned by Television Food Network, G.P., a joint venture and general partnership between Warner Bros. Discovery Global Linear Networks (69%) and Nexstar Media Group (31%). The channel airs programming related to food and cooking.
In recent years, Cooking Channel has lost carriage with the growth of streaming alternatives including its parent company's HBO Max, and has generally been depreciated by Warner Bros. Discovery in current retransmission consent negotiations with cable and streaming providers.
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