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Anyone have a pressure cooker?
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MegS
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Tried searching but they all seemed to be about slow cookers. We cook a lot of curries and thought about buying a pressure cooker. Never had one and my mam never did either so know nothing about them. Anyone recommend them? Any suggestions what to cook in them? Thanks.
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Yes, I have a pressure cooker rather than a slow cooker! It's very good for stews, ( you can do dumplings after pressure released just like in a saucepan), brilliant for soup, also pot roasting tougher cuts of meat. I always use it for Christmas puddings every year.
They aren't so good for vegetables, they seem to come out mushy, and to be honest you don't save much time. The exception is dried beans/pulses which you normally need to boil for quite a while.
I also use the base as a jam-making pan as it's nice and big.
All in all I definitely recommend them!0 -
Hi there
Yes, I have a pressure cooker but not used it for that purpose for a number of years. We got it as a wedding present 36 years ago - a Prestige. Cost of replacing rubber seal etc now a problem and I don't think weights now reliable. I now do things in the slow cooker but just use the size of the pressure cooker for soup, marmalade, jam etc.
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I have a pressure cooker that is about twenty years old and rarely use it but it comes in handy if I forget to put slow cooker on. I do use it at Christmas for pudding and also to boil ham before glazing and baking. Its very good for stews etc when you want a meal in a hurry. I was amazed to find I could still get replacement steam thing that goes on top.0
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I was given one as a wedding present. I used it loads at first, but now use my Rayburn as a *slow cooker*.
Try these older threads:
Is it worth buying a pressure cooker?
Poll - slow cooker v pressure cooker
The poll is evenly divided between slow and pressure
Penny. x:rudolf: Sheep, pigs, hens and bees on our Teesdale smallholding :rudolf:0 -
Wouldn't be without our pressure cooker since it is in use daily.
Like most things, you do have to experiment a bit to get the best use of them although most instruction books seem reliable.
The thing to remember is that different foods require different cooking times so if you cook old tatties, carrots and peas together for 10 minutes, the carrots and peas will become rather mushy yet the tatties will be ok.
Mind you, pressure cooked new potatoes take around 5 to 7 minutes and believe me, you will not taste finer tatties (drizzled with butter and mint sauce oooooh..)
Pressure cookers are safe, particularly the newer ones but avoid letting them boil dry. A safety valve will release the pressure but the contents and the cooker will suffer badly!"It's nice to be important but more important to be nice"
John Templeton 1912-20080 -
I actually have two!! One old one from my mum, something's broken inside it (it did alright though - mom got it in the 1970s!) and it doesn't come up to pressure any more, but i use it as a big pan for things like soups & stews, bulk cooking (I was lucky enough to get a huge box of tomatoes for £3 recently so i cooked them down with some red peppers to make 10 boxes of tomato sauce for pasta - yum), and jam making. The other one is much newer - mom bought it for me last year, and although i only use the pressure part for doing christmas puddings, i also use the base for .. you guessed it, soups, stews, jam making.. *chortles*.
i love them - wouldn't give them up for the world. Don't even have a slow cooker - but then, i'm at home all day so wouldn't need one.
keth
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Thank you all for your comments. Think I might stick with my slow cooker for a while and then reassess after Christmas.0
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I have a pressure cooker have had it for years and it saved me hours of time when I was working, I could cook a stew from scratch in half an hour.....must admit I never used it for veg, I steam veg anyway, always have. Its great for jam and marmalade, but as it aluminium I do not leave anything with tomato in it.........when I can afford it I am going to get a stainless steel one, mine is 20 years old now, got new gaskets etc for it and it still works fine........I had a lsow cooker nad sold it, I hated the thing..............did not get the same results as with the PC....................
By the way the Jamie Oliver PC is made by Tefal and I found it for £100.........on a website, sorry thats way too expensive..............Was 13st 8 lbs,Now 12st 11 Lost 10 1/4lbs since I started on my diet.0 -
Like Grannybroon my prestige was a wedding present in 1970 - used it for potatoes, casseroles, pulses, marmalade, soups, etc. Warped the base a few years ago so had to part with it and never replaced it. Was used very regularly in it's heyday, but OH does most of our cooking these days and clearly uses other things instead.Resolution:
Think twice before spending anything!0
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