pressure cooker
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- noun
- /ˈprɛʃər ˈkʊkər/
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- I told my mom how a pressure cooker cooks the beans so fast.
- pressure cooker makes this soup
- pressure cooker cooks the beans
- Using a pressure cooker
It looks like some of our first meat is finishing cooking and we got the pressure cooker.
- It looks like some of our first meat is finishing cooking and we got the pressure cooker.
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Maybe invest in a pan that would nest in the pressure cooker for storage.
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On a pressure cooker, this is known as the relief valve.
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You can put the rice in the pressure cooker.
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My big old pressure cooker is in my basement.
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Scrape burnt soup from the bottom of the pressure cooker.
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I cook my Kamut and whole barley in my pressure cooker.
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A pot roast could be made in a paltry 48 minutes in a pressure cooker, or could stew, forgotten, in a slow cooker for exactly 9 hours and 3 minutes.
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And you can make homemade caramel (or dulce de leche) by leaving a sweetened condensed milk can inside the pressure cooker while cooking your beans.
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The folks over at CHOW and Modernist Cuisine explain in this video why pressure cookers are great, complete with a recipe for a caramelized carrot soup that'll get anyone in your household excited.
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You can make a delicious stew in a pressure cooker in under an hour.
How Pressurized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun is compositionally built: 'pressure' modifies 'cooker', so a cooker that uses pressure (a sealed pot) is directly inferable from the constituent meanings. The figurative use (a stressful situation) is likewise a clear metaphorical extension of the literal image, and the compound follows a productive, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Pressure cooker got its name from how it works: pressure means steam pushing inside a closed pot and cooker means a pot for food. Because the trapped steam raises the heat, the pot 'cooks food quickly', which is why we call it a pressure cooker.