Pressure Cookers

by ninrn 6 years ago

Many Indian recipes indicate cooking time in a pressure cooker as "two whistles" or "three whistles". How does that translate into minutes, or is it variable depending upon what's in the cooker? ...

by DuffyH 10 months ago

Please join us in cooking with your electric pressure cooker and posting about your experiences here. You can cook from any book or any recipe and any model or kind of pressure cooker, but please n...

Is the instant pot for people who are too busy to make a stew on the stove or is it truly a great addition to the kitchen? I have made three very different recipes in the pot. They all looked gre...

How to find out a size of pressure cooker 6, 8 or 10 quarts?

I'm looking to buy a pressure cooker, and I want a high quality cooker but don't want to get a massive All-American style pressure cooker or anything like that. Price isn't much of a concern. ...

by Melanie Wong 7 months ago

For all you new Instant Pot owners . . .

I spent a long time deciding that I didn't want an electronic pressure cooker. In the process, I bought two stovetop pressure cookers, a 6 quart and then an 8 quart when the 6 quart just wasn't la...

Most people know that one of the "secrets" to KFC (personally, I'm a fine of the stuff) is the fact that they fry it in a pressure cooker. Now, an industrial pressure fryer is a pretty scary thing ...

by Pipenta 6 years ago

The bastard child of a pressure cooker and a toaster oven. Might be really nifty, might be ridiculous. I'm wondering what's involved with cleaning the thing. Anybody got one? Review it for us plz?

I have a 3 pound boneless center cut pork loin roast. I intend to boil it in my pressure cooker, and taking the resulting meat (along with some home made chicken bone broth and potatoes) to mak...

by Nyleve 9 months ago

Was talking to my daughter-in-law the other day. By the time they get the one-year-old twins down for the night they are too tired to cook real food and have sunk to terrible depths. They are both ...

Hi there, I have a vintage hand me down made in France SEB pressure cooker I've been using for years. The other day I tried to steam some potatoes using a basket with water on the bottom. I left it...

by DuffyH 1 year ago

Please join us in cooking with your electric pressure cooker and posting about your experiences here. You can cook from any book or any recipe and any model or kind of pressure cooker, but please n...

Help needed to reduce cooking time for David Chang's Bo Ssam (recipe here: http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/12197-momofukus-bo-ssam). My schedule makes it hard for me to carve out time to have th...

My husband got me them above pressure cooker for Christmas as the Instapot was out of stock. I'm just wondering if anyone can give me any reviews on it. Thanks!!

by 1sweetpea 5 years ago

My mom gave me her pressure cooker several years ago, but I've never used it. I dug it out of a very high cupboard and decided to learn how to use it. The lid was on tightly ... so tightly that m...

Having thought I mastered my new Fagor Duo, I tried to cook 4 pounds of cut-up chicken this morning, with 3 cups of water. After 8 minutes, steam was coming out of the top handle/valve area. Ba...

(I tried to search the CH website for IP ideas but something must've gone wrong with my search as it only yielded 35 results and not very much info. If you have better success, please just post th...

by erica 11 months ago

I'm intrigued by the idea of a pressure cooker for beans and chicken stock. Never used one. Reviews of the stovetop versions seem to lean heavily towards the Fissler. We are a 2 person househol...

Still new to the instant pot (only used the pressure cooker function so far) and my crock pot decided to call it quits. And to be fair to my IP - I really haven't played around with it much. So...