If a pressure cooker is to be used, keep the cans in it for 6 to 40 minutes, depending on the steam pressure employed, the ripeness of the food or the necessity for cooking it, and the size of the cans employed.
It is the high temperature that may be developed in a pressure cooker that greatly shortens the time required for cooking jars of food and making them sterile.
In case a pressure cooker is used, however, this is not necessary.
The heavier the material used for a cooker and the more solid the construction, the higher may go the steam pressure, and, of course, the temperature.
For canning meat or fish, processing in a pressure cooker is the most successful, as the high temperature reached in it kills bacteria, which are difficult to destroy at the boiling point.
Larry replied, "I suppose we can use the bully little kerosene gas cooker tonight.
The fireless cooker helps here, but not for all processes.
With the fireless cooker and other slow-cooking apparatus, the heavy work may sometimes be done far ahead of mealtime.
It is an easy task to cook a cereal, especially now that the fireless cooker in some form is present in so many homes.
If you have a fireless cooker, put the cereal in the double boiler into the cookerovernight for the second stage.
Everything was put in its place, the Primus lighted, and the cooker filled with snow.
At that time it took half an hour to turn the snow in the cooker into water; now it was done in ten minutes, and the cook ran no risk whatever of getting his fingers frozen in the process.
This cooker utilizes the heat more completely than any other; but I have one objection to make to it -- it takes up space.
When the cookerwas filled to provide water for dinner, the half-melted mass looked like sago.
The case with the cooker was hanging by its last thread; it was secured, and again saw the light of day.
Just don't touch that pressure cooker till I get home, dammit.
Could you get my pressure cooker down before it does any more damage?
With a gas range, a fireless cooker and all the conveniences of our little kitchenette, it's mere play after my Wigwam experiences.
The chief advantages in the use of the fireless cooker are these: 1.
Dried fruits--Soak overnight, bring to the boiling-point, and leave in the cooker at least three hours.
During the hot weather, the use of a kerosene or other liquid-fuel stove and a fireless cooker is a great convenience, since it not only accomplishes a saving in fuel, but helps to keep the kitchen cooler.
Sometimes, when a higher cooking temperature is desired, an additional source of heat, in the form of a hot soapstone or brick or an iron plate such as a stove lid, is put into the cooker with the food.
The saving in fuel resulting from the use of a fireless cooker is greatest in the preparation of foods such as stews, which require long and slow cooking.
Rice--Boil, then place in the cooker for one hour.
We took a little provision and a cooker and our sleeping-bags.
They found a cooker and provisions and remains of a hastily abandoned meal.
Our tent is up and cooker going in the shortest time after halt, and we are able to break camp in exceptionally good time.
The hiss of the primus and the fragrant steam of the cooker issuing from the tent ventilator.
Place it into steamer or fireless cooker until so tender that the flesh readily falls from the bones.
Place over boiling water or in the fireless cooker to cook slowly for a long time.
Perhaps you will see how this might help on a hot summer's day and what a comfort a fireless cooker might prove in a sick room.
To make a fireless cooker you will need: (1) A cookeror container, which should be an agate pail with a close fitting cover.
When securely covered in the cooker they will go on cooking for several hours because the heat is retained by the protecting case.
You may be very sure that if you make a fireless cooker you will understand all about it.
The fireless cooker is especially valuable for cooking cereals, but a longer period of time must be allowed than for cooking in a double boiler.
The ice chest is built much as the fireless cooker is made.
The Fireless Cooker When a Girl Scout gets to thinking about all the work to be done in a kitchen she will ask some very important questions.
The prepared food is put into one of the food receptacles belonging to the cooker and is placed over a fire, until it has boiled for a few minutes.
The stone may be necessary for one of the following reasons-- (1) Because the amount of food put into the cooker is too small to contain much heat.
Where there is no refrigerator, an ice-box made on the principle of the home-made fireless cooker will do excellent service.
Illustration: A fireless cooker] The principles of the fireless cooker are based on a knowledge of the laws governing the conduction and radiation of heat.
Either a thermometer, which the housewife may watch, or thermostat, which controls the current, must be attached to electric cookers to prevent burning the food or injuring the cooker with too much heat.
After thecooker has been used, it should be wiped out clean; otherwise it will retain some of the odors of the cooked food.
Such care is needed to prevent the cooker from taking on the odor of dishes previously cooked and transmitting some of them to those cooked later.
The cover, as well as the sides, of the fireless cooker has to be padded with the insulating material.
One of the difficulties of this cooker is that the water in the lower pan cannot be watched and may boil dry.
Since the food has to be shut in a fireless cooker to keep in the heat, fireless cookery is a method of steaming of food.
The fireless cooker is a box or can having a diameter somewhat larger than that of the largest vessel to be placed in it.
Whilst Worsley and Crean were digging a hole for the lamp and starting the cooker I climbed a ridge above us, cutting steps with the adze, in order to secure an extended view of the country below.
A slide down a slippery slope, with the adze and our cooker going ahead, completed this descent, and incidentally did considerable damage to our much-tried trousers.
I told all the boats that immediately we could find a suitable floe the cooker would be started and hot milk and Bovril would soon fix everybody up.
We had flung down the adze from the top of the fall and also the logbook and the cooker wrapped in one of our blouses.
It was uncomfortable, but we found consolation in the reflection that without the decking we could not have used the cooker at all.
A little breeze made cooking difficult in spite of the shelter provided for the cooker by a hole.
An aluminized-mylar Solar Funnel Cooker was also tested in Bolivia, during the Bolivian winter.
Another design of the Save-Heat Cooker holds up to seven quart-sized canning jars.
It looks like a large, deep funnel, and incorporates what I believe are the best features of the parabolic cooker and the box cooker.
This will keep the Solar Funnel Cooker working at its best.
While there are better materials (such as solar-selective absorbers), our goal has been to keep the cost of the Solar Cooker as low as possible, while maintaining safety as a first priority.
Prototypes of the Solar Funnel Cooker were tested in Bolivia, and outperformed an expensive solar boxcooker and a "Solar Cookit"-- while costing much less.
How to Build Your Own Solar Funnel Cooker What You will Need for the Funnel Cooker: 1.
For long-term applications, a hole in the ground will hold the Funnel Cooker securely against winds.
The Solar Funnel Cooker is set-up just as you would during sun-light hours, with two exceptions: 1.
How to Build Your Own Solar Funnel Cooker - What You will Need for the Funnel Cooker - Construction Steps IV.
Cooking with the Solar Funnel Cooker What do you cook in a crock pot or moderate-temperature oven?
So we finally chose a 60-degree opening angle so that the cooker is effective for about 1.
Students at Brigham Young University have performed numerous tests on the Solar Funnel Cooker along with other cookers.
Thus, a solar cooker can supply food for mid-day, evening and the next morning, as desired.
If placed in cooker at night it should remain warm enough to serve for breakfast.
Put into cooker with one or more radiators which have been heated for 10 or 15 minutes over hot fire.
Place in large dry vessel; put very hot radiator in bottom of cooker well; place vessel containing roast on radiator, and place another very hot radiator on top.
The roast may be browned in a very hot oven before putting into cooker or just before serving.
And out went the open fire--to be lit again later, but never again as a cooker of food and a warmer of the whole house.
The fireless cookerprepares the meals 'with a perfection and deliciousness unrealized in the old days.
The other kinds require cooking, of course, but this need not be a hindrance, for they can be prepared on one day and reheated for breakfast the following day, or they can be cooked overnight by the fireless-cooker method.
As in the preceding methods, the cereal is first set in the pan that fits into the cooker compartment.
To use a fireless cooker properly, the food must be cooked for a short time on the stove; then it must be tightly covered and placed in one of the insulated compartments.
The food loses its heat so gradually in the fireless cooker that the cooking proceeds slowly but effectually.
The heat that the cereal holds when it is placed in the cooker is retained, and this is what cooks it.
When the previous heating has been sufficient, the food will be cooked and still warm when the cooker is opened hours later.
The food in the cooker is allowed to cook over the lighted burner until sufficient heat has been retained or the process has been carried sufficiently far to permit the cooking to continue without fire.
In reality, it is an advantageous way in which to cook cereals, since, if they can be set and placed in the cooker in the evening, they will be ready to serve at breakfast time on the following day.
I would that I could once again Around the cooker sit And hearken to its soft refrain And feel so jolly fit.
Birdie made a bottom for the cooker out of an empty biscuit tin to take the place of the part which was blown away.
The cooker was there and a primus--Scott lighted it and cooked a meal; we often used it afterwards.
Each of these three parties was self-contained with tent, cooker and weekly bag, and the times of starting were so planned that the three parties arrived at the end of the march about the same time.
Two bits of the cooker having been blown away we had to balance it on the primus as best we could.
Between us we got the primus alight somehow, and by hand we balanced the cooker on top of it, minus the two members which had been blown away.
Very slowly the snow in the cooker melted, we threw in a plentiful supply of pemmican, and the smell of it was better than anything on earth.
Luckily we had another tent, and there was the cooker and primus we had dug out of Shackleton's tent.
The cooker was unlashed from the top of the instrument box; some parts of it were put on the bags with the primus, methylated spirit can, matches and so forth; others left to be filled with snow later.
The blubber left in thecooker got burnt and gave the tea a burnt taste.
Some one whacked out the biscuit, and the cook put the ration of pemmican into the inner cooker which was by now half full of water.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cooker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: burner; cooker; cookery; element; furnace; heater; range; stove
