What is "roaster"

Usage examples of "roaster".

You saw the cooking apparatus, the boilers, roasters, and steamers, the peelers, shellers, and choppers, which are so useful when food has to be prepared in quantity, but which are not worth buying for every isolated home.

And Sunday, if I have a little time, I may work on my sparker or my chestnut roaster.

Thus it became common for wholesale roasters to add between 6 and 8 percent chicory to their mix, which did not greatly alter the taste.

Freezers, roasters, cookers, appliances of every size and description.

Yet today he is known (and only to a few specialists, at that) for an improved blacksmiths bellows in the year 1785, for a certain modification (not fundamental) in the moldboard plow about 1805, for a better (but not good) method of reefing the lateen sail, for a chestnut roaster, for the Devils Claw Wedge for splitting logs, and for a nutmeg grater embodying a new safety feature.

She had been much relieved to know that, although Kapash's men had taken all the remaining bean sacks in the hold, they had overlooked the beans in the roaster.

Ihryk and Tennetty hunted deer, duck, and rabbit, gathered wild garlic, onions, chotte, burdock, maikhe, and tacktob for the stewpot, stretching the supply of dried beef and putting off the time when it would become necessary to start converting the chickens from egglayers into roasters.

He was half asleep, sitting on the ground in the shade by the barracks, the smell of the logs stacked by the roaster tower bringing him a memory of the work yards at home, the fragrance of new wood as the plane ran down the silky oak board.

Whisper that can be heard ev'rywhere in the great Residence, ev'ry skin seems immediate to ev'ry other, into the morning, Scribes carry ink-pots and quills and quill-sharpeners, in and out of Cells of many sizes, whose austerities are ever compromis'd by concessions to the Rococo, boys in pointed hoods go mutely up and down with buckets of water and kindling, cooks already have begun to quarrel over details of the noon meal, in his rooftop Bureau, an Astronomer finishes his Night's reductions, writes down his last entries, and seeks his Mat, Vigil-keepers meanwhile arise, and limp down to the ingenious College Coffee Machine, whose self-igniting Roaster has, hours earlier, come on by means of a French Clockwork Device which, the beans having been roasted for the desir'd time, then controls their Transfer to a certain Engine, where they are mill'd to a coarse Powder, discharg'd into an infusing chamber, combin'd with water heated exactly, Ecce Coffea!