pressure cooker

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   autoclave for cooking at temperatures above the boiling point of water

   Broaderautoclave

Questions about pressure cooker

What does pressure cooker mean?

pressure cooker means "autoclave for cooking at temperatures above the boiling point of water".

Is pressure cooker a common word?

pressure cooker is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.