Inside a cooking pot; cooked or being cooked in a pot.
Describing ingredients or food items that are placed or prepared in a pot.
2.
All Spanish-speaking regionsneutraltechnicalculinary
Contained within a mixture or vessel used in a production process (for example, bones or materials placed in a pot as part of manufacturing or processing).
3.
Varies; attested in literary or regional usagearchaicproverbial
Part of an old proverb or fixed expression meaning literally 'look in the pot'; used proverbially to encourage inspection, attention to results, or caution (usage and precise meaning may be regionally specific or archaic).
Examples:
ES: "Mira en olla".
EN: "Look in pot."
ES: No, no. "Mira en olla" es un antiguo proverbio chino.
EN: Oi, vay! No, no. "Look in pot" is old Chinese proverb.
ES: Galletas, langosta en olla, sardinas, todo lo que un mole pueda desear.
EN: Biscuits, potted lobster, sardines, everything a mole could want.
ES: Estoy cagando en olla, meando en jarros.
EN: I'm shitting in pans, peeing in pitchers.
ES: Zanahorias, cebolla y patatas cocinadas en olla a presión.
EN: The pan of pressure-cooked carrots, onions and potato.
ES: Su mujer desapareció, y la policía encontró sus huesos y dientes en olla de hacer las salchichas.
EN: His wife disappeared, and the police found her bones and teeth in his sausage-making vat.
ES: ¿Por qué no te adaptas al arroz hecho en olla?