Pressure cookers - anyone use them ?

pressure cooker just turns everything into mush :) thats why its so good for soups, espcially nice thick ones!

personally, the secret to a perfect mashed potato is cooking all your potatoes in a pressure cooker. Best eva!
 
ld13 said:
It regulates itself and seals in such a manner that it is impossible to open while it is under pressure.
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Haven't seen any in the last few year that allows you to open them up under pressure, stove top or electronic. Go and look closely at the electronic ones, they are mostly a normal stove top plate with a cooker on top, just a pressure switch built in that cuts the electricity when the cooker part is empty.

All that you gain by buying an electronic one is that the pot is not on the stove.
 
Haldex said:
Its amazing!! Also have the Electric one, awesome for curries, soft meat in 20 minutes!
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There is something to be said about a curry that has been cooked slowly, and left to stand for a healthy period of time, and only THEN eaten...

Sure a pressure cooker will yield soft meat (due to the pressure! ;)) but you cant force the flavour imho.

That takes time, and I reckon it always will.
 
techead said:
There is something to be said about a curry that has been cooked slowly, and left to stand for a healthy period of time, and only THEN eaten...

Sure a pressure cooker will yield soft meat (due to the pressure! ;)) but you cant force the flavour imho.

That takes time, and I reckon it always will.
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Theres a technique to get the curry tasting right, its in the indian delights cookbook.
Seal the meat in the PC, braise the spices in oil on the stove, add the other ingredients, throw all in the PC, add water, add potatoes 15 minutes later and voila!
Like its been simmering for the past 3 hours.
 
grantza said:
Some time back i bought a fancy AEG pressure cooker. It was on special - but to this day is still living as a virgin in its box.

Thing is, i have no idea when last i even saw one being used - probably back in the day when my mother used one of those stove top jobs that had the family cowering in terror when it started hissing !

So, what are they good for besides frightening children ?
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Hmmmmm
mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/521683-Explosion-at-the-Boston-marathon
 
Hosehead said:
Yeah I'd use that word to describe the world's largest pressure cooker. It bumps up the heat to 177 degrees c while your typical home pressure cooker bumps up your meal to 116 degrees c .Here we're talking about an inedible soup with a difference of 61 degrees C more than your home cooker. :sick:
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eew
shudder at the thought of that thing hissing and exploding
 
My dad wanted to make pea soup for my mom and sister while she was busy with her shift at the hospital....he forgot to turn the heat down though and the thing blew its lid. My mom was greeted by a kitchen where soup was dripping from the ceiling. True story.

Thank god there was no one in the kitchen when it happened.

I have not used one myself. Think I am scared too.
 
The people that don't care for the pressure cooker have too much electicity to burn.
 
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