Can pauses ruin cooking utensils (9)
I believe the answer is:
saucepans
'cooking utensils' is the definition.
(saucepan is a kind of cooking utensil)
'can pauses ruin' is the wordplay.
'ruin' indicates an anagram.
'can'+'pauses'='canpauses'
'canpauses' with letters rearranged gives 'SAUCEPANS'.
(Other definitions for saucepans that I've seen before include "Cooking vessels" , "Cooking pots" .)