Slow cooker vs pressure cooker

dawnybabes

I have an electric PC, its great, you can brown meat/onions in it, then set the pressure and time you want it cooking and walk away. The bowl comes out and goes in the dishwasher. Home made stock is fab in it. I use it at least 2-3 times a week - my SC gets used 1/2 a week.

The only thing I wish is my PC came with a plastic lid to pop the bowl straight in the fridge.

Eenymeeny

Thanks Popperwell, and eveyone else for the lots of useful advice given. I'm going to dig the pc out and try again. It was just the fact that a stew stuck and burnt in the pan and I'd never had that happen before. Maybe I'd let it cook for too long, can't remember now. I didn't know about electric pcs either, very interesting.

PipneyJane

Hi Everyone

Can I draw on your collective wisdom, please? Last week, I cooked a batch of chickpeas in my pressure cooker and they created so much foam/froth that it sprayed out of the valve when the cooker came to pressure. This has never happened to me before, so I'm not sure what to do to prevent it happening again. What would you recommend?

For the record, it's a 10L Tefal cooker and I was cooking 1kg of chickpeas that I'd soaked for 12 hours and frozen-then-defrosted first. (I normally cook at least 500g of dried beans or chickpeas in a batch.)

Thanks.

sleepless_saver

PipneyJane wrote: »

Hi Everyone

Can I draw on your collective wisdom, please? Last week, I cooked a batch of chickpeas in my pressure cooker and they created so much foam/froth that it sprayed out of the valve when the cooker came to pressure. This has never happened to me before, so I'm not sure what to do to prevent it happening again. What would you recommend?

For the record, it's a 10L Tefal cooker and I was cooking 1kg of chickpeas that I'd soaked for 12 hours and frozen-then-defrosted first. (I normally cook at least 500g of dried beans or chickpeas in a batch.)

Thanks.

Did you add a spoonful of oil? It's meant to help reduce frothing from beans, lentils etc. I add oil and don't fill the PC more than half way up for bean cooking. Not had a problem so far.

PipneyJane

sleepless_saver wrote: »

Did you add a spoonful of oil? It's meant to help reduce frothing from beans, lentils etc. I add oil and don't fill the PC more than half way up for bean cooking. Not had a problem so far.

No. I didn't. But I will add oil next time and see what happens.

Thanks for the suggestion.