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For me, I’ve always gone by the typical english definition of “combining and heating” ingredients.
If you’ve combined more than one item together and applied heat somehow, that counts as cooking, otherwise you’re doing something else. Like, if I made myself a cold sandwich, I wouldn’t say I ‘cooked’ a sandwich and the same for if I threw a burrito in the microwave.
So, from that, as long as you either warmed up the beans or threw the bread in the toaster and those items weren’t pre-combined somehow, I’d personally say you cooked it.
I think we’re coming up to the point where we’re going to realize that we’ve just ruined the internet and being connected to everything all the time will start to become less popular. It’s kinda sad, but feel like the internet might be preparing to shift away from being a social thing and towards being something you just use for work or when you need to shop, etc.