rice cooker
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- noun
- /raɪs ˈkʊkər/
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- 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.
- But yeah, I have a rice cooker now, which is really exciting.
Examples
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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.
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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
An electric appliance that cooks rice by steaming or boiling
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Morphology
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'.