pressure-cookv.
/ˈprɛʃəˌkʊk/, U.S. /ˈprɛʃərˌkʊk/ transitive. To cook in a pressure cooker.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook [verb (transitive)] > steam
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1922 [see pressure-cooked adj. at Derivatives].
1926 Star & Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) July 10 The cans are placed in large vats and pressure-cooked for 28 minutes.
1958 Woman 27 Sept. 4/3 I pressure-cooked it until the meat left the bone.
1990 Maclean's (Nexis) 22 Oct. 50 The food..is steamed, boiled, baked or pressure-cooked..in order to minimize the fat content.
Derivatives
ˈpressure-cooked adj. cooked in a pressure cooker. Also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adjective] > steamed
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1922 Republican & Times (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) Jan. 28 Pressure cooked baked beans prepared by Miss Sparks.
1979 P. Carey War Crimes in Fat Man in Hist. (1980) 165 It was pressure-cooked marketing.
1990 Atlantic (Nexis) Sept. 110 A friend from North Carolina, enlightened in culinary matters, became dreamy while recounting the pressure-cooked green beans of her youth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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