Patent ID: 7373874

Claim:
A household appliance for cooking food under pressure, the appliance comprising: a bowl ( 1 ) and a lid ( 2 ) designed to be mounted on and locked onto said bowl ( 1 ) to form a leak-tight cooking vessel; locking/unlocking means ( 3 ) having jaws or segments, and moving between a locking position in which the lid ( 2 ) is locked relative to the bowl ( 1 ) and an unlocking position; and decompression means ( 6 ) for decompressing the vessel, which means are activatable regardless of the pressure level prevailing inside the vessel; wherein said locking/unlocking means ( 3 ) and said decompression means ( 6 ) are connected functionally to a single, common control member ( 7 , 7 A, 7 B), said control member ( 7 , 7 A, 7 B) making it possible to cause the lid ( 2 ) to be locked onto and unlocked from the bowl ( 1 ), and to cause the vessel to be decompressed.