Some cookers are furnished with valves, permitting the escape of steam when it becomes too abundant.
In most commercial cookers there are wire devices to raise the dishes of food from the stone (Fig.
Stones should not be put in home-made cookerswhich are not insulated with asbestos or other fireproof material.
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.
Hot stones can be used with safety in any of the commercial cookers which come fitted with them.
On the more improved cookers a whistling device (B, Fig.
The steam-pressure and the pressure cookers are more complicated but more efficient.
There are condensed-steam cookers under various names, where the product is cooked in condensed steam.
Pressure cookers are expensive, but they are worth their price, as they are used daily and not just during the canning season.
The Lewis Gun limbers and cookers were now allotted to Companies, and the remainder of the 1st Line Transport occupied a field close to us.
By night there was greater activity, and rifle bullets fell thickly round Cookers Farm and the surrounding country.
The cookers came up and we prepared to make ourselves as comfortable as possible, while we once more had the pleasure of watching the Cavalry waiting to be used, and once more saw them go slowly back.
All that is to say except the cookers and with them Serjeant Thomson and his cooks; these were in a shallow sunken road, and had a shell within a few yards of them, fortunately doing no damage.
This was done by platoons of the support and reserve companies who had frequently to make two or three journeys during the night, along the slippery track past Pond Farm and Cookers Corner--the last a famous and much loathed spot.
Those who have good steamers or fireless cookers will not find it of special advantage.
Those who have firelesscookers and plan their meals properly do not need to spend much time in the kitchen.
We were organized in four-man units: our rations were made up for four men for a week: our tents held four men: our cookers held four mugs, four pannikins and four spoons.
This is an old method of gelatinizing grain, but a better is by the use of cookers or high pressure steamers as described for potatoes.
Where cookers or the Henze steamers are not used every form of grain should be crushed or ground into a coarse flour.
When steamcookers are used, the cylindrical boiler is first filled to the proper degree with water at a temperature of 140 deg.
Some cookers of light construction will not permit of a pressure greater than 5 pounds, but even suchcookers are very satisfactory.
But when cookers are intelligently used they seldom need attention, and if it should become necessary to change them, they are moved without much trouble or any structural work or dirt-making.
The fitments of all modern gascookers are readily removable, and easily cleaned.
One disadvantage is, possibly, that some of the best and most modern fires and cookers cannot be hired.
When the cookers and fires have been installed a lady will then call, free of charge, and demonstrate the use of the various apparatus, and it can also be arranged that the fires, cooker, etc.
Still, one does not hire one's fireplaces and coal ranges, so why do we always expect to obtain gas fires and cookers on hire?
War--it ain't war to smash up the bloomin' cookers .
Cookers and limbers followed the Battalion, and soon after halting, the troops received a pleasant surprise in the shape of hot dinner.
A good way to spread this technology is to encourage small local industries or families to make these simple yet reliable solar cookers for others at low cost.
Jones and Christopher McMillan of Brigham Young University tested different bases for the cooking pot used in the Solar Funnel, published on the web in the article "Tests of the Solar Funnel and Bowl Cookers in 2001.
I also donated two dozen solar funnel cookers for people in Guatemala.
Conclusion: Why We Need Solar Cookers The BYU Funnel Cooker/Cooler can: -Cook food without the need for electricity or wood or petroleum or other fuels.
Most other solar cookers will not cook in the winter in northern areas (or south of about 35 degrees, either).
Quoted by Solar Cookers International from a newsletter.
And individuals can make their own solar cookers easily, or start a cottage-industry to manufacture them for others.
Solar Cookers will then serve year-round, as long as the sun is shining, for these fortunate people.
Also, effective box cookers tend to be more complicated to build than the funnel cooker.
The fireless cookers described in the following pages are not experiments.
The cooks fill them up at the kitchen at the rear, quite out of range, you know, where there's no danger of a shell upsetting the pots, and then the men bring the big fireless cookers up on mitrailleuse carriages that can go anywhere.
And you ought to see our regimental fireless cookers now.
In the evening the field-cookers were brought up and the men had a hot meal and were rested.
This system proved very satisfactory, and the number of hot meals a man could have during a day was only limited by the number of Tommy Cookersthat could be obtained.
There are also electric firelesscookers (see Figure 28).
Moreover, pressure cookers are especially valuable for high altitude cooking, where water boils at a temperature lower than at sea level.
Detailed directions for making a fireless cooker are given in United States Department of Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletin 771, "Homemade Fireless Cookers and Their Use" and in several popular books.
Such cookers are equipped with a heating element which is placed in the bottom of the insulated box.
The cookers were not near the huts and neither stores nor proper fuel existed.
Transport and cookers were near, and for a spell one was on terms of friendship with the world.
When the General came up next morning, the camp was reeking with smoke from braziers and the smell of cookers and the wood alive with sounds of woodchopping and cries of foragers.
There was a rush for shovels to fill the cookers with snow and a race to boil hoosh.
Weighing and bagging food, repairing tents, poles, cookers and other gear damaged on the last journey and sewing and mending clothes gave every man plenty of employment.
The Practical Value and Use of Fireless Cookers This twentieth century is the age of progress in many directions, but most of all in Domestic Science.
The others with frantic haste filled the aluminium cookers with the gritty snow that here lay hard and windswept.
The cookers filled and passed in, we, gathered socks, finnesko, and putties off the clothes lines which we had rigged between the ski which struck upright in the snow to save them from being drifted over in the night.
Our cookers were taken down to the Western edge of the wood behind the village, where we were issued with soup and rum on arrival at about 10 p.
One of the cookers was also badly blown about by a shell in Verquigneul.
There were no baths, and we had to rig up home-made ones with ground sheets and other means, using the cookers for providing the necessary hot water.
Later in the evening, after the 32nd Division had got clear, some of our Transport and cookers came up, and our hardworking Quarter-Master-Sergts.
Several of the riding horses, the cookers and some of the ammunition and Lewis gun limbers were up with the Battalion, so that the amount of transport left behind was not great.
Limbers and cookers joined us about nine, A Company's cooker having fallen overboard in crossing the pontoon bridge but having been extricated without damage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cookers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
