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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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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As of November 2023, Cooking Channel is available to approximately 34,000,000 pay television households in the United States-down from its 2016 peak of 66,000,000 households.
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Get the Cooking Channel mug.In October 2009, Scripps Networks Interactive announced that Fine Living would be relaunched as Cooking Channel in 2010, after the Great Recession and a severe decline in American personal income and spending effectively stunted Fine Living Network from any further ratings or programming expansion.
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Despite medical advice, Beth believed her yoni needed cleansing. So she went to an alternative clinic to get a clam cooking. Beth is an idiot.
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Get the Google Cooking mug.A cooking channel that is YOUR source of the best food out there, you wont need any other cooking channel other than this one. See, I guarantee that by the end of the day you will start praying to the mentally insane girl (whom is Haachama) and chant "HAACHAMA COOKING, HAACHAMA COOKING, HAACHAMA COOKING,HAACHAMAHAACHAMAHAACHAMAHAACHAMAHAACHAMAHAACHAM-"
I guarantee, while making any of the dishes or writing an urban dictionary page you will go "what the hell I'm I doing? I'm I bloody high? why am I doing this to an ASMR stream named 'H'? "
I guarantee, while making any of the dishes or writing an urban dictionary page you will go "what the hell I'm I doing? I'm I bloody high? why am I doing this to an ASMR stream named 'H'? "
Person 2: "Hey Fread hows it going?"
Person 1: "HAACHAMA COOKING, HAACHAMA COOKING, HAACHAMA COOKIN-"
Person 2: "Are you okay Fread?"
Person 1: "HAACHAMA HAACHAMA HAACHAMA HAACHAMA HAACHAMA HAACHAMA-"
Person 1: "HAACHAMA COOKING, HAACHAMA COOKING, HAACHAMA COOKIN-"
Person 2: "Are you okay Fread?"
Person 1: "HAACHAMA HAACHAMA HAACHAMA HAACHAMA HAACHAMA HAACHAMA-"
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