Possible Clues:

• Cook's vessel, one seen in rain, beam obscured
• Means to slowly cook 23 bananas with cheese crust
• What may be used to cook a main dish covered in cheese?
• Scholar, popular girl, encountered in kitchen
• Water-filled slow cooker
• Cooking vessel manufactured near 7
• Water-bath cooking-pot
• A chef may use one making me in a bar, I suspect
• French cheese a fashionable mum introduced as something for the kitchen
• A man and I prepared to tuck into cheese from a large pan of hot water