Well, technically there is usually bubbling going on, when making a steak, but would you "cook a steak" in english? In german you would not, one would roast it

Well, technically there is usually bubbling going on, when making a steak, but would you "cook a steak" in english? In german you would not, one would roast it. (but we have 2 words, roasting "rösten" on the bbq and "braten" would be in a pan. But a "Braten" would be in an oven.) Kind of not that consistent (like it usually is with natural language). In general I think those terms were invented, before there were things as a rice cooker.