Cooking programs
The named recipe presets a programmable cooker offers, each running a built-in time/temperature (and, on a pressure cooker, pressure) profile for a dish, grain, or loaf. A pot-and-base cooker offers e.g. pressure cook, slow cook, white/brown rice, porridge, sauté, steam, soup, yogurt, bake; a bread maker offers e.g. basic/white, whole wheat, French, sweet, gluten-free, dough, jam, rapid, pasta dough. A token category recurring across rice cookers, multicookers, electric pressure cookers and bread makers (L11); a model offers several; growing (L13). Distinct from a toaster oven's oven_function (oven heating modes — bake / broil / convection by element pattern, not stored recipe presets, L10) and from heat_setting (how heat is regulated, not which recipe runs).
Answers the question: cooking program.
30 values the words themselves
- pressure cook
- slow cook
- white rice
- brown rice
- porridge / congee
- multigrain
- sauté / sear
- steam
- soup / broth
- stew / meat
- yogurt
- bake / cake
- sous vide
- keep warm
- reheat
- sterilize / sanitize
- egg
- basic / white bread
- whole wheat
- French
- sweet
- gluten-free
- dough (knead & proof)
- jam
- rapid / quick
- pasta / pizza dough
- smooth soup
- chunky soup
- blend / smoothie
- compote