Appliance for cooking food under pressure

摘要

The invention provides a domestic appliance for cooking under pressure and comprising: a cooking bowl and a lid for being fitting and locked on said bowl to form a substantially leaktight cooking enclosure; means for locking and unlocking the lid relative to the bowl; pressure regulator means arranged to maintain a relative pressure inside the enclosure at a substantially constant predetermined "cooking" pressure value; and activatable and deactivatable decompression means arranged, when activated, to allow the pressure that exists inside the enclosure to drop; wherein the pressure regulator means is designed so that the cooking pressure lies substantially in the range 10 kPa to 30 kPa.