0 a cooking pan with a tightly fitting lid that allows food to cook quickly in steam under pressure --
1 a situation in which people are under a lot of pressure : --
2 a container with a tightly fitting lid that cooks food quickly in steam --
Manufacturers provide steamer baskets to allow more foods to be cooked together inside the pressure cooker.
The containers can be used for cooking foods that are prone to burning on the base of the pressure cooker.
We basically lived together in a van while writing the new album, and that put us in a pressure cooker.
The natural release method finishes cooking foods or recipes that have longer cooking times because the inside of the pressure cooker stays hot.
Milk quotas are like a pressure cooker: you cannot keep the pressure on right to the end and then take it off, because it just bursts.
One way in which steam can escape from a pressure cooker is through the valve marked "asylum route", particularly when most other valves are now blocked.
The atmosphere in our acute hospitals, however, continues to feel like that of a pressure cooker.
The pressure cooker is no longer a luxury, but a real necessity in a home where the woman goes out to work.