Definition of "uncook"

uncook

verb
third-person singular simple present uncooks, present participle uncooking, simple past and past participle uncooked
1. (transitive) To undo the act of cooking.
  Quotations
  You can't uncultivate anything, in the same way you can't uncook your food.
  2019, Andy Brennan, Uncultivated, page 65
2. (computing, slang, transitive) To repair (an MP3 audio file) that has been damaged ("cooked") by being converted through a text format and having line breaks applied to it.
  Quotations
  Hi all! I have developed a freeware utility to uncook MP3's...
  1999, y2kilroy, “New Freeware Utility to uncook mp3's!”, in alt.music.mp3 (Usenet)
  If you "uncook" a file that isn't "cooked" you will just mess it up (and I don't know of any way to fix it then) - so uncooking should be used with caution (I'd suggest never over-writing the original file).
  2000, Xorys, “Creating audio CD from mp3 files”, in alt.music.mp3 (Usenet)