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Pressure cooker   /prˈɛʃər kˈʊkər/   Listen
Pressure cooker

noun
1.
Autoclave for cooking at temperatures above the boiling point of water.





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"Pressure cooker" Quotes from Famous Books



... sibilation; zip; hiss &c v.; sternutation; high note &c 410. [animals that hiss] goose, serpent, snake (animal sounds) 412. [animals that buzz] insect, bug; bee, mosquito, wasp, fly. [inanimate things that hiss] tea kettle, pressure cooker; air valve, pressure release valve, safety valve, tires, air escaping from tires, punctured tire; escaping steam, steam, steam radiator, steam release valve. V. hiss, buzz, whiz, rustle; fizz, fizzle; wheeze, whistle, snuffle; squash; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... through heat and it is now common practice to boil sources with the extracting reagent and to use the steam bath freely to concentrate and evaporate these extracts. We have recently investigated the effect upon cabbage of cooking in a pressure cooker at eight pounds pressure. The cabbage so cooked, when dried and mixed so as to form 10 per cent of a basal vitamine free diet, yielded all the "B" vitamine necessary to produce normal ...
— The Vitamine Manual • Walter H. Eddy
... also be taken not to steam vegetables for long periods at a very high temperature as is sometimes done in using the pressure cooker. This results in both ...
— School and Home Cooking • Carlotta C. Greer


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