As a common cooking utensil, the pressure cooker is often overlooked when searching vehicles, residences or merchandise crossing the U.S. borders.

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Sure, toasters have gotten bigger, more colorful, and more likely to burn down your house since its conception, but unlike refrigerators, dishwashers, and microwaves, this cooking utensil just hasn't gotten much attention over the years.

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In recent years commentators have noted the existence of the so-called Delia Effect, whereby her endorsement of a food product or cooking utensil, be it sea salt, vegetable bouillon or a balloon whisk, sees shoppers falling over themselves in a buying frenzy.

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Generally when the sons and daughters of Australian immigrants appear on prime-time reality television shows it is with a cooking utensil or a recipe in hand (good food, combined with self-deprecatory humour, have long offered new arrivals here the quickest route to acceptance and assimilation).

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