Tower Pressure Cooker - help needed!

Annie1612

Hello all,

Hopefully someone has experience of using a Tower 6L pressure cooker who can give me a few tips. The instruction booklet is pretty unhelpful.

I should say, I have been using a pressure cooker for quite a few years and bought this one to replace my trusty Prestige 6L which had come to the end of its life.

Their timings and water amounts in the Tower instructions seem totally at odds with the Prestige. When cooking veg I would normally add half a pint of water and cook for 3.5 minutes under pressure. The Tower instructions are saying 1 and a half pints of water with a cooking time of around 6 minutes which doesn’t seem right at all.

There are also no water amounts given for rice, lentils and pasta etc which I know from experience need to be a lot more than vegetables because of the absorption.

Wishing I had now bought a Prestige again. Can anyone help please?

maryb

Is it because the Tower only goes up to 12 PSI or thereabouts whereas the Prestige goes up to 15? European style pressure cookers usually only have two settings and the top pressure is less than 15 PSI.

I agree that sounds way over the top. I'd only do 6 minutes if I was making soup! If it is because it works at a lower pressure I can only suggest you experiment by, say adding a minute to the times you used for your Prestige

Annie1612

I’m not sure about the pressures Mary, but like you I would use 5-6 minutes for soups and bolognese etc. There are 2 pressure settings on top and one is low and the other high. Like you say, there is going to be a degree of experimentation.

Flugelhorn

I agree - the veg are going to be at soup level at 6 minutes

experimenting is the way to go -

PipneyJane

As mentioned by @maryb the difference may be the pressure reached. I would contact the manufacturer and ask. (I did this with my own pressure cooker, which reaches 13 PSI, not 15 PSI, so have to adjust recipes. Was not impressed.)

HTH

Pip