pressure cooker

See also: pressure-cooker

English

Alternative forms

• pressure-cooker

Noun

pressure cooker (plural pressure cookers)

1. (cooking) A sealed cooking vessel that allows cooking in greater than atmospheric pressure and at a temperature above the boiling point of water.
2. (figurative) A stressful situation that is liable to erupt.
   • 2006, J. P. Cardone, Tales Under a Full Moon, page 208:

     Look, I had a pressure cooker of a job along with more responsibility that any one person should have. I had an office of twenty-five people under me all needing help like little birds in a nest.

   • 2007 July 19, Leslie Feinberg, “Cuba education about same-sex love reached every home”, in Workers World‎^[1]:

     Wall Street hopes that economic deprivation will turn up the pressure cooker on internal relations.

   • 2011, Augusto Cury, The Dreamseller: The Calling, page 173:

     Humanity lives in a pressure cooker of stress because of the ruthless way in which we compete, because of our lack of respect for the international rules of commerce, because of social conflicts, because of the devastation to the environment.

Translations

cooking vessel

• Arabic:

  Hijazi Arabic: قدر ضغط m (gidir ḍaḡṭ)

• Catalan: olla de pressió f
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 壓力煲 / 压力煲 (aat³ lik⁶ bou¹)

  Mandarin: 高壓鍋 / 高压锅 (zh) (gāoyāguō), 壓力鍋 / 压力锅 (zh) (yālìguō)

• Czech: papiňák m, Papinův hrnec m, tlakový hrnec m
• Danish: trykkoger (da) c
• Dutch: hogedrukpan (nl) f, snelkookpan (nl) f
• Esperanto: premmarmito
• Estonian: kiirkeedupott
• Finnish: painekattila, painekeitin
• French: cocotte-minute (fr) f, autocuiseur (fr) m, marmite à pression (fr)
• Galician: ola de presión (gl) f
• German: Dampfkochtopf (de) m, Schnellkochtopf (de) m, Dampfdrucktopf (de) m
• Greek: χύτρα ταχύτητας f (chýtra tachýtitas)
• Hungarian: kukta (hu)
• Indonesian: presto (id) (colloquial), panci tekan
• Irish: brúbhruthaire m
• Italian: pentola a pressione f
• Japanese: 圧力鍋 (ja) (あつりょくなべ, atsuryoku nabe)
• Korean: 압력솥 (ko) (amnyeoksot)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: trykkoker m, trykk-koker m

  Nynorsk: trykkokar m, trykk-kokar m

• Persian: زودپز (fa) (zudpaz)
• Polish: szybkowar m
• Portuguese: panela de pressão f
• Russian: скорова́рка (ru) f (skorovárka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: претис ло̀нац m

  Roman: pretis lònac m

• Spanish: marmita (es) f, olla de presión f, olla a presión (es) f, olla express f (Mexico, Spain)
• Swedish: tryckkokare c
• Turkish: düdüklü tencere (tr)
• Vietnamese: nồi áp suất (vi)
• Welsh: sosban bwysedd f, sosban frys f