What is "pressure cookers"

Usage examples of "pressure cookers".

Maus abhorred tea bags, pressure cookers, canned fruit cocktail, bottled mayonnaise, instant coffee, iceberg lettuce, monosodium glutamate, eggs poached in geometric shapes, New England boiled dinners, and anything resembling a smorgasbord, salad bar, or all-you-can-eat buffet.

Inside these pressure cookers, the pressure builds up to twice the atmospheric pressure at sea level, increasing the boiling temperature and reducing the cooking time.

Quiss was led by the dwarfish scullions, through the banked ranges, past gleaming tubs, boiling vats, open fires and grills, past rows of massive, wing-nutted pressure cookers guarded by blast screens, under huge n-shaped pipes, bubbling and gurgling and leaking steam, and over the dainty, counter-sunk tracks of a narrow-gauge railway until eventually he saw a wall ahead, and was led up a rickety wooden staircase to a narrow gantry, then stopped at a small wooden door set into the wall.

More things seemed to happen over the weekend than during the week-confrontations of all sorts, exploding out of pressure cookers that had been on low boil for weeks or months or even years.

Maureen had wondered what happened to the pressure cookers from the ranch house.

But the instant he spoke, a whistle blew above one of the plastic pressure cookers as it completed its cycle, making further conversation impossible.

Knives are manufactured with hilts so that they may be grasped safely, stairs possess banisters, electric wiring is insulated, pressure cookers have safety valvesin every artifact, thought is put into minimizing danger.

Two big stainless steel pressure cookers fitted with racks sat on burners over matching low blue flames.

We're melting the stuff down in the pressure cookers, but we couldn't find your property lemon, so no floaters.