noun
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an apparatus, usually of metal and heated by gas, electricity, oil, or solid fuel, for cooking food; stove
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any large sour apple used in cooking
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Etymology
Origin of cooker
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For a hot dog that best impersonates one you'd get at a ballpark or from those mesmerizing rotating racks at a convenience store, consider using your Slow Cooker, if you've got 4 hours to spare.
From Salon • May 28, 2021
Many home bakers use the Lodge Combo Cooker, a combination cast-iron skillet and saucepan, the saucepan acting like a lid.
From New York Times • May 3, 2021
—Chaim Gartenberg, news editor $14 at Amazon Household and just for fun Proctor Silex Rice Cooker Proctor Silex rice cooker Photo: Proctor Silex Can you cook rice on a stovetop?
From The Verge • Feb. 8, 2021
Cooker deaths: Beko 'ignored problem for two months'
From BBC • Nov. 23, 2020
By the combination of "Nansen Cooker" and primus stove one gallon of kerosene oil properly husbanded is made to last for twelve days in the preparation of the ordinary ration for three men.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir
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