Hide cooked meals inside item of furniture (6,4)

'hide' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't see how they can define each other.

'cooked meals inside item of furniture' is the wordplay.
'cooked' is an anagram indicator (letters cooked into a new form).
'inside' indicates putting letters inside.
'item of furniture' becomes 'chair' (I've seen this before).
'meals' is an anagram of 'amels'.
'amels' going inside 'chair' is 'CAMELS HAIR'.

Can you help me to learn more?