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rice cooker

rice cooker

3 1.4
An electric pot that cooks rice using steam and keeps it warm
  • noun
  • /raɪs ˈkʊkər/
: olla arrocera
  • I bought a rice cooker that can steam vegetables while cooking the rice.
  • an electric rice cooker

But yeah, I have a rice cooker now, which is really exciting.

Examples

  • Sometimes I will put rice in a rice cooker as I am getting ready in the morning.

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  • The first time I tried rice from a rice cooker (not the instant variety), I fell in love.

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  • But yeah, I have a rice cooker now, which is really exciting.

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  • I thought rice cookers were supposed to be easy to use?

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  • We were using that rice cooker every single day for every meal.

  • Put the mix in my rice cooker, cover with water or stock, and push "cook."

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  • An easy, healthy vegetarian meal, accompanied by quinoa (cooked in the rice cooker) and Malbec.

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  • Rice is convenient, especially if you have a rice cooker, and it's cheap and somewhat healthy—healthier than Twinkies.

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  • If you eat oats, you can program your rice cooker (fuzzy logic only) to make steel-cut oats in the morning.

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  • Using a rice cooker simplifies meal preparation by cooking rice perfectly every time.

Synonyms

rice steamer
vsrice cooker
1 1.7

An electric appliance that cooks rice by steaming or boiling

is designed to cook rice by steaming or other methods

How Automatic

rice cooker
3 1.4
rice steamer
1 1.7
stovetop
  • US
4 2.4

Surface Forms

rice cooker singular
rice cookers plural

Morphology

rice + cooker

The meaning 'an appliance that cooks rice' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'rice' (the food) with 'cooker' (a device for cooking). This noun–noun compound follows a common and transparent composition pattern found across many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.

Etymology

Rice cooker comes from the simple idea of a pot that cooks rice for you. The picture is a small electric pot where rice goes in and a built-in cooker heats and keeps the rice warm, so the name means 'an appliance that cooks rice automatically'.