Do I need a pressure cooker.

angeltreats

If you are cooking pulses, you shouldn't add salt during the cooking as it stops the skins from softening or toughens them (not just in a pressure cooker). Personally I don't salt mine, I just season the final dish.

But other than that there's no reason not to use salt when cooking in a pressure cooker.

Lilyplonk

Thanks for that - maybe that's the rule that I remember my grandmother telling me, angeltreats .

I knew she had a rule about salt .

moments_of_sanity

I have taken the plunge and bought a pressure cooker, just trying to find a leek and potato soup recipe and then I will be away :j

Popperwell

moments_of_sanity wrote: »

I have taken the plunge and bought a pressure cooker, just trying to find a leek and potato soup recipe and then I will be away :j

You got it! Enjoy...and report back.

There are so many recipes for leek and potato soup.;)

http://www.cookuk.co.uk/soup_starter/leek-potato-soup.htm

moments_of_sanity

The soup turned out lovely and only took about 15mins in total, even my teenage daughters ate some and said how nice it was!

Got to find recipes for dinner tomorrow night. :j

Popperwell

Put in "Recipes for pressure cooker" in your search engine such a lot come up. Even Nigel Slater is a fan of them so I may give in...

kraftykat

I too have both a PC and a SC....I most definitely prefer my PC

My family don't seem to enjoy the texture or taste of most things cooked in the SC, with the exception of beef casserole.

I love the speed of the PC and the fact that it cooks the veg properly everytime without having to worry that they are cut up really finely.

I mainly use my PC for stews, soups, joints of ham, potatoes etc. i would love to try a nice mild homemade curry in it too if anyone has a recipe please

kitschkitty

I never salt the water in my pressure cooker, but occasionally use a stock cube if I'm cooking veg for a stew as the pressure cooking can make some really decent stock anyway.

oldscrimpy

Three things I wouldn't be without in my kitchen.
My food processor, my breadmaker, my pressure cooker!

Living_proof

Popperwell wrote: »

Bit like me I guess, should I resist? Perhaps in time Aldi's will do one as a special. Then again I only started using a slow cooker approx 7 months ago...all those wasted years. I'm sure even Mum would've enjoyed what I make in one these days...

I have just bought an Aldi stainless steel one which is on special at £29.99 and 5 litres. I had been looking at the Kuhn Rikon range but they are around £100 and as I am also single I don't know whether I would get the benefit of it even though it is probably a superior cooker.