a device or appliance used for cooking food, especially a stove or pressure cooker
from 'cook' (from Old English 'cōc', from Latin 'coquus') + agent suffix '-er', first recorded in this sense around 1884
The pressure cooker was actually invented in 1679 by a French physicist, but it didn't become popular until the 20th century. Modern electric cookers have made cooking much safer and more convenient!
The domestic appliance was heavily marketed to women in mid-20th century advertising, embedding gendered assumptions about women's kitchen labor and domestic role. This association persists in language use, though weakly.
Use device-neutral language (e.g., 'pressure cooker', 'slow cooker', 'cooking device') in professional contexts. Alternatively, use the object-name without gendered agent implications.
["cooking device","pressure cooker","slow cooker"]
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