Complete Definition of "cooking with gas"

see|now you're cooking
English
Etymology
From the suggestion that stoves using natural gas as a fuel cook better or more efficiently than, for instance, wood burning or electric stoves.
Idiom
cooking with gas
#idiom A phrase meaning that the subject is now doing something the "right" way, or in the most powerful or efficient way.
#: Once I switched to the new API, I was really cooking with gas. I got the project done in half the time.

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