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(lit.) a pot of porridge / (fig.) a complete mess
HSK 7-9
air fryer
electric rice cooker
HSK 5
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  *鍋* | 鍋* | *鍋
pot; pan; wok; cauldron / pot-shaped thing / CL: , 隻|只
HSK 5
non-stick pan (Tw)
hotpot / (basketball) a blocked shot; a block
HSK 7-9
erguotou (sorghum liquor)
to put into the pot (to cook)
fryer
(of food) to burst out of the pot / (fig.) to be in an uproar
to cook again / to rewarm food
pressure cooker
lit. to climb mountains of swords and enter cauldrons of boiling oil (idiom) / fig. to go through trials and tribulations
(dialect) to set up separate households / (sports etc) to analyze the reasons for a defeat
steamer
lit. eyeing what's in the pot as one eats from one's bowl (idiom) / not content with what one already has / (of men, typically) to have the wandering eye
(neologism c. 2017) to shift the blame; to pass the buck
lit. to eat from the common pot (idiom) / fig. to be rewarded the same, regardless of performance
to be made a scapegoat; to be unjustly blamed
a deep fryer
lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
non-stick pan
twice-cooked pork
frying pan
dry pot, a type of dish in which ingredients are wok-fried, then served hot in a clay pot or on a metal pan
fried dumpling / potsticker
fondue
reused cooking oil
dish containing a variety of meats and vegetables arranged in a broth in a clay pot / chafing dish
hot pot containing stinky tofu and other ingredients (Taiwanese dish)
portable steam engine
stew pot / stew pan / saucepan
(like) a cat on a hot tin roof / anxious / agitated
a big wok / cauldron
to fail
top of a kitchen range
a still (for distilling alcohol)
lit. the meat falls apart as it stews, but it all stays in the pot (idiom) / fig. some of us may lose or gain, but in any case the benefits don't go to outsiders
the bottom of a pot or pan / hotpot broth
to take even the cooking pots (idiom) / to clean out / to wipe out
to be unable to afford food
shabu-shabu (loanword) / Japanese hot pot
hot pot / a dish where thinly sliced meat and vegetables are boiled briefly in a broth and then served with dipping sauces
to casserole / to stew / vacuum flask / cooker
one ladle (of sth bad) spoils the (whole) pot (idiom) / one bad apple spoils the barrel
to season a wok / to take the lid off a pot / (of the contents of a pot) to start to boil / (fig.) to become rowdy
(Tw) electric rice cooker
(chemical engineering) reaction vessel; reaction tank
frying pan
coal burning boiler
pressure cooker (Tw)
steamer (for cooking)
casserole / earthenware pot
stove / cooking burner
bowl cut (hairstyle)
"mandarin ducks" pot (hot pot with a divider, containing spicy soup on one side, mild soup on the other)
cooking pot
budae jjigae, a type of Korean stew
lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
don't act until the time is ripe (idiom)
large round baked wheat pancake
nabeyaki egg noodles
to block a shot (basketball)
to be willing to sacrifice everything one has (idiom)
colander / strainer / sieve / leaky pot
pressure cooker
to hunch one's back (coll.) / a hunchback
tinker / artisan who fixes leaky pots
pot; pan; wok; cauldron / pot-shaped thing / hotpot
guoba (scorched rice at the bottom of the pan)
colander
trivet / pot-holder
meal cooked in a large pot / communal meal / (fig.) system that rewards everyone equally regardless of merit
to go to the bottom of things (idiom)
kitchen utensils (literary)
boiler
pan
paper hot pot (hot pot using a single-use pot made of Japanese washi paper with a special coating to prevent burning and leaking, used for cooking at the dining table)
saucepan lid / (satellite) dish
wok / frying pan
claypot (used in cooking)
iron cooking pot
wok spatula; cooking spatula
a humpback bridge
(slang) (neologism derived from 背黑鍋|背黑锅) to carry the can; to be a scapegoat
variant of 砂鍋|砂锅
erhua variant of 羅鍋|罗锅


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