A vibe assessment to determine whether a situation, person, or plan has crossed into genuinely beyond-saving territory. A cooked check is the moment you pause and honestly ask: is this recoverable, or are we fully cooked? It's used the way a doctor checks a patient — but the diagnosis is usually bad. The term carries dark humor; you're not hoping for good news, you're just confirming what everyone suspects. Often delivered as a rhetorical question right before catastrophe lands.
Real cooked check: we've got three hours until the presentation and the slides don't exist yet. We're cooked.
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