Cooker may refer to several types of cooking appliances and devices used for
cooking foods.
Types
AGA cooker – a heat storage
stove and cooker, which works on the principle that a heavy frame made from
cast iron components can absorb heat from a relatively low-intensity but continuously-burning source, and the accumulated heat can then be used when needed for cooking. Originally heated by slow-burning
coal, the Aga cooker was invented in 1922 by the
Nobel Prize-winning Swedish physicist
Gustaf Dalén (1869–1937), who was employed first as the chief engineer of the Swedish
AGA company
Induction cooker – heats a
cooking vessel with
induction heating, instead of
infrared radiation from electrical wires or a gas flame as with a traditional cooking stove. For all models of induction cooktop, a cooking vessel must be made of a
ferromagnetic metal such as cast iron or stainless steel or at least compounded with a steel inlay. Copper, glass and aluminum vessels can be placed on a ferromagnetic interface disk which enables these materials to be used.
Kitchen stove (British English) – a
kitchen appliance designed for the purpose of cooking food. Kitchen stoves rely on the application of
direct heat for the cooking process and may also contain an
oven, used for
baking.
Pressure cooker – heats food quickly because the internal steam pressure from the boiling liquid causes
saturated steam (or "wet steam") to bombard and permeate the food. Thus, higher temperature water vapour (i.e., increased energy), which transfers heat more rapidly compared to dry air, cooks food very quickly.
Rice cooker – also referred to as a rice steamer, is an electric
kitchen appliance used to boil or steam
rice. Apart from cooking rice, there are multiple recipes cooking options in modern rice cookers such as
cooking lentils in rice cooker recipe, etc. Electric rice cookers were developed in Japan, where they are known as suihanki (Jap.: 炊飯器).[1]
Slow cooker – also known as a Crock-Pot, (a trademark that is sometimes used
generically in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand), is a
countertop electrical cooking
appliance that is used for
simmering, which requires maintaining a relatively low temperature. It allows for the unattended cooking for many hours of
pot roast,
stews,
soups,
"boiled" dinners and other suitable dishes, including dips, desserts and beverages.
Solar cooker – a device which uses the energy of direct sunlight to heat, cook or
pasteurize food or drink. Many solar cookers presently in use are relatively inexpensive,
low-tech devices, although some are as powerful or as expensive as traditional stoves,[2] and advanced, large-scale solar cookers can cook for hundreds of people.[3]
In popular culture
The Cooker is the given name to a coin-activated robot made out of an oven and storage cabinet that patrols the moon, as seen in the 1989
Wallace and Gromit short, A Grand Day Out. It is very protective of the moon and becomes hostile when it discovers that
Wallace and Gromit have landed there. It secretly has a lifelong dream of skiing. As well as being called The Cooker, an audio adaptation of A Grand Day Out refers to it as "The Moon Machine".[citation needed]
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Cooker may refer to several types of cooking appliances and devices used for
cooking foods.
Types
AGA cooker – a heat storage
stove and cooker, which works on the principle that a heavy frame made from
cast iron components can absorb heat from a relatively low-intensity but continuously-burning source, and the accumulated heat can then be used when needed for cooking. Originally heated by slow-burning
coal, the Aga cooker was invented in 1922 by the
Nobel Prize-winning Swedish physicist
Gustaf Dalén (1869–1937), who was employed first as the chief engineer of the Swedish
AGA company
Induction cooker – heats a
cooking vessel with
induction heating, instead of
infrared radiation from electrical wires or a gas flame as with a traditional cooking stove. For all models of induction cooktop, a cooking vessel must be made of a
ferromagnetic metal such as cast iron or stainless steel or at least compounded with a steel inlay. Copper, glass and aluminum vessels can be placed on a ferromagnetic interface disk which enables these materials to be used.
Kitchen stove (British English) – a
kitchen appliance designed for the purpose of cooking food. Kitchen stoves rely on the application of
direct heat for the cooking process and may also contain an
oven, used for
baking.
Pressure cooker – heats food quickly because the internal steam pressure from the boiling liquid causes
saturated steam (or "wet steam") to bombard and permeate the food. Thus, higher temperature water vapour (i.e., increased energy), which transfers heat more rapidly compared to dry air, cooks food very quickly.
Rice cooker – also referred to as a rice steamer, is an electric
kitchen appliance used to boil or steam
rice. Apart from cooking rice, there are multiple recipes cooking options in modern rice cookers such as
cooking lentils in rice cooker recipe, etc. Electric rice cookers were developed in Japan, where they are known as suihanki (Jap.: 炊飯器).[1]
Slow cooker – also known as a Crock-Pot, (a trademark that is sometimes used
generically in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand), is a
countertop electrical cooking
appliance that is used for
simmering, which requires maintaining a relatively low temperature. It allows for the unattended cooking for many hours of
pot roast,
stews,
soups,
"boiled" dinners and other suitable dishes, including dips, desserts and beverages.
Solar cooker – a device which uses the energy of direct sunlight to heat, cook or
pasteurize food or drink. Many solar cookers presently in use are relatively inexpensive,
low-tech devices, although some are as powerful or as expensive as traditional stoves,[2] and advanced, large-scale solar cookers can cook for hundreds of people.[3]
In popular culture
The Cooker is the given name to a coin-activated robot made out of an oven and storage cabinet that patrols the moon, as seen in the 1989
Wallace and Gromit short, A Grand Day Out. It is very protective of the moon and becomes hostile when it discovers that
Wallace and Gromit have landed there. It secretly has a lifelong dream of skiing. As well as being called The Cooker, an audio adaptation of A Grand Day Out refers to it as "The Moon Machine".[citation needed]
This
article includes a list of related items that share the same name (or similar names). If an
internal link incorrectly led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.