One records steps taken to cook half of meat kept in safe (9)
I believe the answer is:
pedometer
'one records steps' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'taken to cook half of meat kept in safe' is the wordplay.
'taken to' says to put letters next to each other.
'cook' becomes 'do' (I've seen this in other clues**).
'half of' suggests halving the letters.
'kept in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'safe' becomes 'peter' (I've seen this before).
'meat' halved is 'me'.
'do' put next to 'me' is 'dome'.
'dome' placed within 'peter' is 'PEDOMETER'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for pedometer that I've seen before include "Counter of paces" , "Walker's distance measurer" , "Measure of progress" , "Tom peered (anag.)" , "It shows distance walked" .)