Not cooked — food still in its raw state, with no heat put through it yet. Uncooked rice, uncooked meat, uncooked pastry. In everyday speech, people usually say 'raw'; 'uncooked' turns up more in recipes, packet instructions and food-safety notices, where it is doing careful, precise work: '250g uncooked weight', 'Do not eat uncooked', 'Keep uncooked meat away from ready-to-eat food'. There is a real difference in feel between the two. 'Raw' can describe a whole style of eating (raw fish, a raw food diet) and sounds natural at the table; 'uncooked' quietly points at the missing step — it means this SHOULD have heat and does not yet. That is why 'uncooked' often carries a hint of a problem: if someone bites a dumpling and says 'This is uncooked', they are complaining. Also useful for parts of something: the middle can still be uncooked while the outside is done.