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Boils water hotter than boiling, then dares you to open it too soon.
means A sealed pot that traps steam to raise the internal pressure, cooking food faster than an open pot ever could.
from The device dates to the 1600s, when French physicist Denis Papin built his 'steam digester'—a lidded vessel with a safety valve, meant to extract more nourishment from bones by cooking them under pressure. His design was really the ancestor of both the pressure cooker and the steam engine's safety valve. The modern kitchen version took off in the 20th century as home cooks embraced faster meals; the metaphorical sense—a tense situation ready to blow—followed naturally from the pot's own reputation for building invisible pressure until something gives.
- physics trick
- traps steam, raises boiling point past 100 C
- speed gain
- cooks beans in minutes, not hours
- myth factor
- modern valves make explosions nearly impossible now
- energy saver
- uses less fuel by trapping heat inside