Nine for cooking in Hell (7)
I believe the answer is:
inferno
'hell' is the definition.
(inferno can mean hell as in Dante's Inferno)
'nine for cooking' is the wordplay.
'cooking' is an anagram indicator (cook can mean to falsify or distort).
'nine'+'for'='ninefor'
'ninefor' is an anagram of 'INFERNO'.
'in' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for inferno that I've seen before include "Intense and uncontrolled fire" , "Large dangerous fire" , "hot spot" , "(Hellish) blaze" , "Hellish poem" .)