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Pressure cooker

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, pressure cooker means: A sealed cooking vessel that cooks food using steam under pressure.

In Turkish: düdüklü tencere

How it is used

Used as an equipment name; cooking settings depend on the appliance and recipe.

Example sentences

  1. The kitchen used a pressure cooker for the bean stew.

    The vessel cooks the ingredients under increased pressure.

  2. This pressure cooker has a removable inner pot.

    The removable inner pot holds the ingredients inside this pressure-cooking appliance.

Common collocations

  • electric pressure cooker
  • pressure cooker lid
  • steamTo cook food in the hot vapour rising from boiling water, without the food touching the water itself.
  • stoveA piece of kitchen equipment with burners or hot plates on top for cooking in pans, often with an oven underneath.

More terms: Kitchen Equipment

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