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Pressure cooker

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Does anyone else use a pressure cooker? What do you usually cook in it?

We mainly only use ours for cooking soup beans. It's so much easier than letting them soak all night and then cooking them for hours. This way it takes about 1 1/2-2 hours. And SOMEHOW it also takes the uhm.... "the gas" out of the beans. That's the best part. LOL
 
I never trusted presser cookers heard to many horor stories of them blowing up
 
I was making candy with my grandmother and aunt for Christmas. The pressure cooker exploded and my aunt had third degree burns on her hands, face and neck. I have never bought a pressure cooker and will not after seeing what happend to my aunt. I dont want it blowing up in my face.
 
I've never used one, my grandma had one but I don't remember her ever using it either. After reading these posts about them, I don't think I'll be getting one anytime soon either. shannone, I'm sorry about your aunt. I hope everything is all right now...
 
This happend a year ago and she ended up with no scares. My aunt will not go near a pressure cooker now. When my grandma calls her and asks if she wants to help make candy she says I dont think so.
 
My mom and dad uses presser cookers all the time but I do not trust myself to use this I would blow up the house and kill myself.
 
I've never used one, but my mom has for canning (so have both of my grandmothers). She has never had any horror stories, but I'm scared.

Are there any things you can do to help prevent accidents with these?
 
mtmomj said:
Are there any things you can do to help prevent accidents with these?
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I used to use a pressure cooker to cook soup but I hardly use it nowadays since I switched to using a slow cooker.

To prevent accidents using a pressure cooker, you can cover that steam outlet with a piece of damp cloth so that when you turn the dial to release the pressure, it's not so scary.

I am not sure how the pressure cooker explodes though. Sorry to hear about that.

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I'm not sure if she meant the whole thing exploded or maybe a can or whatever was inside the pressure cooker? I've never heard of one exploding as a whole, but have heard of things glass exploding while canning.
 
I never use a pressure cooker. I usually use a crockpot. I wonder if there is a huge difference between the two. What type of pressure cooker is a good type?
 
Pressure cookers

I've been using my pressure cooker (a presto cooker) an awful lot lately.
Rice (I use a separate bowl inside the cooker with metal canning jar rings placed on the bottom of the cooker, allows for water to be placed at the bottom of the cooker and the bowl doesn't touch the bottom of the cooker). I love the gooey (similar to Chinese restaurant) texture. You don't even need to measure the water, just place 1/2 inch of water above the level of the rice!
Soups and stews, yummy and fast. If I have the rice and beans precooked, all I have to do is add the other ingredients and in 10 minutes I have dinner (yum!)
Chicken (very tenderly cooked)
veggies (yum) cooks them through and retains the nutrients. I even cook the broccoli stems. Carrots can retain their color and have a soft texture like butter (yummy!)


Cooks things fast and safely. Saves on energy too. Once it reaches the optimum 15 PSI, all you have to do is reduce the heat.

You can buy one on ebay for a song. I especially like the 6 quart presto cooker (1970's) edition. I own an aluminum one.
 
I have been around, and used pressure cookers my whole live. When young we canned everything we ate. We also grew all or most of our food. Even beef, goat, fish and wild game were canned. Nowadays we don't pressure can as much. I do however still own several (large and small ones) and do use the smaller ones often. I always will pressure cook my stew meat or any tough cut of meat before putting it into my dish.
I think pressure cookers are safe as long as you understand how it works, and pay very close attention. CF:)
 
Canman, you are so right. I use the smaller pressure cookers for cooking. I have not cooked in the pressure canner. I do still think you have to understand the machine. As I have been told if all else fails read and understand the book. CF:)
 
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