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cooking rice; (historical) cook (who prepares rice)
The act of cooking rice; historically, also a servant or low-ranking worker whose job was to cook rice. In modern usage, mainly refers to the act of cooking rice or a person who does so.
飯炊きは毎朝の仕事だ。
Cooking rice is a daily morning task.
その武家では飯炊きの者が台所を切り盛りしていた。
In that samurai household, the rice cook managed the kitchen.
炊飯器の普及で、飯炊きの手間が大きく減った。
With the spread of rice cookers, the effort involved in cooking rice has greatly decreased.
Historically, 飯炊き referred to a domestic worker specifically tasked with cooking rice, often of low social standing in the household hierarchy. In the modern context, the term is more neutral and refers simply to the task of cooking rice.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 飯炊きをする: to cook rice
- 飯炊きの役割: the role of cooking rice