Under Pressure

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I got a pressure cooker for Christmas. It’s amazing. How have I cooked for all these years without one?

You throw a 3 lb chunk of beef in it, a couple of potatoes and some carrots. Splash some seasoned fluid of some kind in there. Seal it up. Bring it up to pressure. Cook for 35 minutes or so, and you got yourself a roast dinner for the family.

Tonight I peeled, cored, and sliced 4 apples. Put in in with a half-cup of one of those “Naked” juices. A little cinnamon, nutmeg, and a touch of honey. Sealed it, brought it up to pressure and then immediately took it off the stove, cooled it, opened. You got your hot stewed apples. Delicious, and after no more than 2 minutes cooking at full pressure, almost over-cooked.

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My Mom says that I’m not allowed to use a pressure cooker.

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Do what your Mom says, mutepointe. You could put someone’s eye out with that.

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They can be great from what Ive heard. Time, fuel efficiency, and less water used are just three I can think of, but I am sure there are more. Just wish I could find one that was all metal, then I’d buy one. Can’t stand plastic, rubber, and wood in cookware.

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Prestige pressure cooker

David

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Grandma lost a bit of her nose. Nothing hideous.

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My mom would have been more worried about me experimenting with air to fuel to pressure mixtures with alcohol, oil, and other stuff and what kind of damage it might do to the lab/bunkers I tended to make. She was worried about your safety? Appreciate that one.

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In Ireland the pressure-cooker was a necessity. Boiling spuds? Without the pressure-cooker they take hours.

I sometimes wonder how we manage without one. Then I remember: mostly rice, mostly pasta.

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“virgin aluminium”, so it can obviously stand up to PEER pressure.

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Nela Rubinstein’s Boiled Beef(or Bison) with horseradish sauce and cooked potatoes and cabbage works great under pressure.
Virgin aluminum? I prefer getting foiled again…and again…uses less energy…like a pressure cooker.

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You have to know what you’re doing with a pressure cooker, just like driving a car. Do the wrong thing, and you can end up with the contents of the cooker pasted to your kitchen ceiling, which is better than a head-on collision but just as scary at the time. Pressure cookers make me a bit nervous, I’m afraid to say. I’m always listening to the weight that is jiggling on top of the cooker. If it stops jiggling, that means that the vapor release stem has gotten plugged up (don’t cook beans), and, of course, the only way out at that point is the safety plug also on the top, which is not a pretty sight. My wife says that I worry to much.