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Pressure cooker...tips and help appreciated
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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
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Having been brought up in a house where the principal method of cooking was a pressure cooker, I reckon I can give you some tips.
Firstly, always ensure you have enough water inside. Half a pint is sufficient for steaming vegetables.
Put the cooker on full heat without trying to build up any pressure. When steam is forced out, close the pressure vavle. When steam escapes, start your timer and reduce the heat by 1/3. When the cooking time is complete, remove from the heat and cool the bottom of the pan to eliminate the pressure before opening!
Simples! |
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By *he tactile technicianMan
over a year ago
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I wouldn't worry about it! They all have a safety pressure valve that will blow out and release the pressure; and your dinner all over the ceiling rather than letting your pan explode. The last one I had was so abused it had abuckled bottom and wouldn't sit flat on the hob as I'd stoked it up so much, feel the force and go with it, life is too short to be a whimp!
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"these things scare the holy be jayzuz outta me  "
Same here, my dad gave me one when I moved into my first flat, when it started whooshing, I ran and hid in the lounge and it exploded so I could only ever used it as a saucepan, never again  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Having been brought up in a house where the principal method of cooking was a pressure cooker, I reckon I can give you some tips.
Firstly, always ensure you have enough water inside. Half a pint is sufficient for steaming vegetables.
Put the cooker on full heat without trying to build up any pressure. When steam is forced out, close the pressure vavle. When steam escapes, start your timer and reduce the heat by 1/3. When the cooking time is complete, remove from the heat and cool the bottom of the pan to eliminate the pressure before opening!
Simples!"
Wouldn't it just be easier to steam it?? |
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"the instructions scare the hell out of me lol  "
They do that for a reason... to try and do you a favour!
My mum cooked everything in a pressure cooker. I grew up eating veg which just melted onto the plate and then merged into one glob of mush.
Give up now and forget about it.... it's the best thing in the long run. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"the instructions scare the hell out of me lol
They do that for a reason... to try and do you a favour!
My mum cooked everything in a pressure cooker. I grew up eating veg which just melted onto the plate and then merged into one glob of mush.
Give up now and forget about it.... it's the best thing in the long run."
they are brilliant for making soups and stews and the filling for delicious pies ....wouldnt be without mine.... no way !! |
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"the instructions scare the hell out of me lol
They do that for a reason... to try and do you a favour!
My mum cooked everything in a pressure cooker. I grew up eating veg which just melted onto the plate and then merged into one glob of mush.
Give up now and forget about it.... it's the best thing in the long run."
give up m8 get a slow cooker a lot better and a steamer  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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cannot live without a pressure cooker. very quick and very very tasty meals.
Just make sure you put about half a cup or so more liquid in than you want to end up with.
Cook for min time, eg veg 5 mins, turn of and leave another 5 and they are perfect. No greens in there though.
Choose two recipies from your instruction book and get to know them well and then you can extend to others when confident. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Thanks all of you..I bought it & I will bloody well use it...once I get someone to show me how lol, still got steamer, slow cooker and halogen cooker so won't suffer if I only use it the once  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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My mum cooked everything in a pressure cooker. I grew up eating veg which just melted onto the plate and then merged into one glob of mush.
My childhood exactly!
I still have a fear of stew!!!! ICK!
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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
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Wouldn't it just be easier to steam it?? "
Time wise - 4 minutes for vegetables, 6 minutes for large spuds, add your chunks of meat and a couple of stock cubes and you`ll have a stew in about 10 minutes! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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lol glad my mum could cook, alas we never had a pressure cooker , but I will use mine, even if it means I have a bad experience and the food ends up on the ceiling.....once.....now who do I know who is getting married so I can give it to as a wedding pressie ? lol |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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Wouldn't it just be easier to steam it??
Time wise - 4 minutes for vegetables, 6 minutes for large spuds, add your chunks of meat and a couple of stock cubes and you`ll have a stew in about 10 minutes!"
Thanks, this is why I bought the darned thing lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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My mothers was an old fashioned thing with three triangular shaped collander like containers to cook everything in. It exploded once and we all looked lovely covered in beetroot juice. It stank of cabbage when we were forced to wash up after sunday lunch, with bits of cauliflower and floa ty carrots in the water at the bottom. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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lolthat's why I am scraed, but hey if that been at my mum's it would have matched the school blazers so she probably would have put last years ones in the cooker with beetrot lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"lolthat's why I am scraed, but hey if that been at my mum's it would have matched the school blazers so she probably would have put last years ones in the cooker with beetrot lol"
Why don't you just go to your mum's for dinner? Makes perfect sense to me.  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"lolthat's why I am scraed, but hey if that been at my mum's it would have matched the school blazers so she probably would have put last years ones in the cooker with beetrot lol
Why don't you just go to your mum's for dinner? Makes perfect sense to me. "
ermm maybe cause she been dead over 30 years  , be long way to go forn etheral meal? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"If Buddha/Allah/Jehovah etc had really wanted us to use pressure cookers, he/she wouldn't have invented microwaves and ready-meals "
Don't do ready meals and my micro is strictly for defrost or reheat lol |
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my mum gave me hers when i first left home 20 odd years ago, was quite a good one, even had a timer on it, i just used it as a big saucepan fro making stews etc in, its redundant now i have a slow cooker which i love |
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"my mum gave me hers when i first left home 20 odd years ago, was quite a good one, even had a timer on it, i just used it as a big saucepan fro making stews etc in, its redundant now i have a slow cooker which i love"
toop many typo's in deleted reply lol
got one too, the only prob I have is I use it to cook overnight, then when I get up the smells make me so hungry that the food doesn't last long lol |
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"my mum gave me hers when i first left home 20 odd years ago, was quite a good one, even had a timer on it, i just used it as a big saucepan fro making stews etc in, its redundant now i have a slow cooker which i love
toop many typo's in deleted reply lol
got one too, the only prob I have is I use it to cook overnight, then when I get up the smells make me so hungry that the food doesn't last long lol "
I work nights so tend to put it on when i get home, go to bed then when i get up dinner is ready |
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