Discover the Pressure Cooker
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Cooking with a Pressure Cooker
I received my first pressure cooker in my early 20's. It was a handy-me-down from my aunt that had already seen many years of service. It was a 4 quart Mirro-Matic that made quite a clamor when cooking. I was single at the time and I seldom used it, but once I got married I discovered some of it's finer points as I began cooking regularly.
This page is dedicated to cooking with a pressure cooker. You'll find handy information about how to use and care for them, pressure cooker recipes, as well as an opportunity to shop for a pressure cooker and related parts.
The Advantages: Or, Why I Love My Pressure Cooker
Who Makes Pressure Cookers?
In the end, you need to find the features you want and the ones that match up to your budget as there are a wide range of options.
Choosing a Pressure Cooker
A Few Tips On Using a Pressure Cooker
However, in general:
Pressure Cooking Times
- Pressure Cooker Cooking Times
- Find estimated cooking times laid out in easy to read tables for vegetables, beans, meats, poultry, seafood, fruits, and more.
- Miss Vickie's Pressure Cooking Time Charts
- Find more tables for cooking times when using a pressure cooker.
Taking Care of Your Pressure Cooker
However, in general:
Stove Top Pressure Cookers
Electric Pressure Cooker
A Pressure Cooker Canner
Pressure Cooker Cookbooks
Pressure Cooker Recipes: Beef
- The time is right for a fresh salad
- "I am hopeful a reader may be able to help," Tammy writes. Recently, I published recipes for pressure cooker baked beans in response to a request from Ed Prange. Ed reports that he used his new pressure cooker for the first time.
- Forget the wings, pass the meatballs
- As with Buffalo wings, you'll want to serve these balls with blue cheese dressing. A few weeks back, Roy Loweke of Sebring asked for a recipe to make pressure-cooker baked beans. Many readers replied and we ran recipes. Since then, we've had more ...
- The Feijoada From Ipanema
- I think the love is definitely important, but further investigation (involving many hours of cooking as many feijoada recipes as I could find) revealed that most Brazilians use a pressure cooker to serve one up in less than an hour.
- Your views on the news: The truth about McJobs & teachers on Facebook
- Its not rocket science or a great mystery to be able to cook stews,soups and loads of recipes with mince bulked out with bread crumbs or cheap cuts of meat. I was brought up with leg beef stew, ash (soup) dumplings, yorkshire puddings , oxtail ...
Pressure Cooker Recipes: Chicken
- Forget the wings, pass the meatballs
- To me, they look a lot easier to prepare and less work to eat than chicken wings. As with Buffalo wings, you'll want to serve these balls with blue cheese dressing. A few weeks back, Roy Loweke of Sebring asked for a recipe to make pressure-cooker ...
- The time is right for a fresh salad
- "I am hopeful a reader may be able to help," Tammy writes. Recently, I published recipes for pressure cooker baked beans in response to a request from Ed Prange. Ed reports that he used his new pressure cooker for the first time.
- The Feijoada From Ipanema
- Dragging our sack of sandwiches next to the cool, still Atlantic Ocean and chitchatting with regulars wasn't exactly a hard job; it just meant we had to wake up early and cook chicken and chop celery. At 11 am, I'd slide into a fio dental (those ...
- New Liberty raises local food IQ
- The workshops are held following the winter farmers market, which is also housed in the church basement and takes place from 9 am to noon on Saturdays. Upcoming workshops will be on pressure cookers (Jan. 21), root cellars and root recipes (Feb.
Pressure Cooker Recipes: Pork
- Spectrum student chef wins top honours
- It's a real pressure cooker and she did really well.? Cafeteria manager Michelle Darling commends St. Pierre on her ability to stay focused ? a trait many of her high school counterparts had yet to fully develop. ?She gets it,? Darling said.
- The Feijoada From Ipanema
- I think the love is definitely important, but further investigation (involving many hours of cooking as many feijoada recipes as I could find) revealed that most Brazilians use a pressure cooker to serve one up in less than an hour.
- Explainer House Call: What does sloth meat taste like?
- Everett prefers to tenderize the meat in a pressure cooker for 40 minutes, season it with cilantro, garlic, salt, and chili sauce, and add it to tacos. Some among the debaters in Ann Arbor reasoned that, since a sloth rarely moves more than a few ...
- New Liberty raises local food IQ
- The workshops are held following the winter farmers market, which is also housed in the church basement and takes place from 9 am to noon on Saturdays. Upcoming workshops will be on pressure cookers (Jan. 21), root cellars and root recipes (Feb.
Pressure Cooker Recipes: Soups and Stews
- Braised oxtail with celery
- Oxtail can take anything from 1-2 hours to cook ? in a pressure cooker, however, it takes only about one hour, and you'll find there are no fumes in your house, either. Preheat the oven to 220C/gas mark 7. Season the pieces of oxtail and lightly dust ...
- Dutch Treat: Beef, Italian Style
- Maybe it's the weight of the lid, which serves as a low-level pressure cooker. Maybe it's the taste of the cast iron. Or, maybe, it's just because cooking in a Dutch oven is usually done outdoors and the surroundings are so beautiful that anything ...
- Delicious And Nutritious Beans Soup
- Boil for 35 minutes until soft and almost cooked ( if you have a cooker, it's even faster) pressure cooker. Cook your beef and stock fish with salt and seasoning, add the beans paste to the boiling pot of beef, stock fish and dry fish stir well.
- New Liberty raises local food IQ
- Upcoming workshops will be on pressure cookers (Jan. 21), root cellars and root recipes (Feb. 11), emergency planning (Feb. 25), extending the garden season on both ends (March 10), and seeds, bread and soup (March 24) and will feature presentations, ...
Pressure Cooker Recipes: Desserts
- Mother-daughter team from Roseville win TV cook-off
- Their camaraderie and cooking experience together helped give them an edge once the TV cameras started rolling. They'd first heard about the competition last summer on Twitter, and submitted a video of themselves making a cookielike dessert out of a ...
- Giants take tough road to Indy
- What began in a driving Northern California rain storm concluded with Candlestick Park turned into a pressure cooker, the intensity building with each successive snap as the Giants held their ground against a group that believed themselves the chosen ...
- Boys basketball: Huskies top Cougars, move closer to playoff berth
- ?We're under the pressure-cooker right now,? Reno coach Kyle Schellin said. Keenly aware of what was at stake Tuesday, Reno (12-12, 9-6) was loose during pregame senior night ceremonies and Schellin went with an all-senior starting lineup that featured ...
- Madrid Fusión 2012: Day Two
- With his book collaborator Maxime Bilet helping, Myhrvold demonstrated ? both live onstage and with video ? such processes as pressure rendering, in which he turned bacon into its fat and bits of crisp meat in a jar inside a pressure cooker (the ...
Pressure Cooker Recipes: Casseroles
- The time is right for a fresh salad
- "I am hopeful a reader may be able to help," Tammy writes. Recently, I published recipes for pressure cooker baked beans in response to a request from Ed Prange. Ed reports that he used his new pressure cooker for the first time.
Pressure Cooker Recipes: Side Dishes
- The Feijoada From Ipanema
- I think the love is definitely important, but further investigation (involving many hours of cooking as many feijoada recipes as I could find) revealed that most Brazilians use a pressure cooker to serve one up in less than an hour.
- Your Students, Your Schools - Des Moines west
- Food labs have focused on international cooking and students are working on creating cookbooks from another culture. Eighth-graders began a crash course on money management in which they learned how to balance needs and wants while also keeping some ...
- Robin Ellis remembers Poldark
- It was called Poldark, and it aired over two seasons on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre.1 Robin Ellis shows off his cooking skills which led him to write a cookbook for diabetics. The Emmy and BAFTA-nominated miniseries, based on the beloved novels by Winston ...
- Community Calendar for Feb. 17
- The following events will take place at the Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake Cook Road in Glencoe. For more information call (847) 835-5440 or visit www.chicagobotanic.org. Registration for the 2012 summer day camp programs has begun.
Pressure Cooker Recipes: Vegetarian
- Cooking Basmati Rice Just Perfectly!
- Although cooking procedure of basmati is as same as any normal rice, some tips will help you to cook better and easier. Today, we will discuss on those cooking tips. Have a look. For pulaos, basmati needs to have the right consistency.
- The Best Indian Food in Chicago May Not be Where You'd Think
- The samosas, the dosas, the prices, the pressure cookers, the tea, the international groceries, the saris, and the families going out to dinner around 8 or 9:00 pm There are some good places here, especially for South Indian food.
Pressure Cooker Recipes: Diabetic
- Chefs struggle to stay healthy in pressure-cooker setting
- TV chef Paula Dean's announcement last week that she has Type 2 diabetes shed some light on a dark corner of the restaurant industry. For men and women working long, odd hours ? especially those struggling with eating-related addictions ? the ...
- Methi: Green gold in your kitchen
- There are hundreds of recipes that have evolved on this green gold. It is proven to be a powerful panacea in the treatment of diabetes and high blood pressure. Fenugreek also holds the promise to cure certain types of arthritis.
Pressure Cooker Canning
- You Too Can Can
- ... or using pressure cookers to can non-acidic goods, just sounds like too much work. Perhaps a class in canning fruits and vegetables will dispel the myths and give me the confidence to get in the kitchen and start making my own foodie gifts.
- Blue pea shortage signals profitable opportunities for high-quality crops
- "The natural gas burners give off a certain wavelength (infra red) that causes cooking from the inside." Peas are pre-soaked and each grain acts as a pressure cooker and as the moisture expands, heat travels outwards and cooks the starch.
- New Liberty raises local food IQ
- Upcoming workshops will be on pressure cookers (Jan. 21), root cellars and root recipes (Feb. 11), emergency planning (Feb. 25), extending the garden season on both ends (March 10), and seeds, bread and soup (March 24) and will feature presentations, ...
- Mother Earth News Tips for Affordable Better Food
- Preserve Your Own Food?preserving food is actually easier to do than most fear and does not require a pressure cooker. A large canning kettle (essentially a big pot with a special jar bracket and inner wall lips to hold the jar bracket), some canning ...
Pressure Cooker Instruction Manuals and Parts
- Presto Pressure Cookers
- Find Instruction Manuals for a variety of Presto products as well as replacement parts.
- Cuisinart Pressure Cooker Instruction Manual
- Get the instruction manual for Cuisinart's electric pressure cooker.
- Nesco Pressure Cooker Instruction Manual
- Here is the manual for the Nesco 3-in-1 pressure cooker.
- Fagor Pressure Cookers
- Find Fagor replacement parts here.
- Kuhn Rikon Pressure Cookers
- Find replacement parts here.
- Fagor Instruction Manuals
- Find links to PDFs for the various cookers by Fagor.
- Kuhn Rikon Instruction Manuals
- You'll find some Kuhn Rikon Instruction manuals here.
- Mirro-Matic Pressure Cooker Manual
- The instruction manual is available as a download.
- All American
- Find parts for All American Pressure Cookers/Canners.
- All American Pressure Cooker Instructions
- Find a PDF of the manual here.
- Cuisinart Pressure Cooker Instruction Manual
- The Cuisinart parts and accessories online.
- Mirro-Matic Parts
- A resource for replacement parts for Mirro-Matic pressure cookers.
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cffutah
Jan 24, 2012 @ 10:16 am | delete
- haven't bought one yet but we really want to. my mom made a roast in like 30 minutes!
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cffutah
Jan 24, 2012 @ 10:16 am | delete
- haven't bought one yet but we really want to. my mom made a roast in like 30 minutes!
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Ronlove Dec 19, 2011 @ 7:52 am | delete
- Thank you for this great lens. I love using our pressure cooker.
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blanckj Jun 13, 2011 @ 9:06 pm | delete
- Thanks for sharing all this information.
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JodiCox
Aug 31, 2010 @ 9:49 am | delete
- Just wanted to say you cand find a great list of pressure cooker times www.popcookbook.com
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CherylK
Nov 9, 2009 @ 8:31 am | delete
- Tons of terrific information here about pressure cookers! Great job. That's a cute video, too.
I had a pressure cooker and used it for canning...gave it to my daughter with all of my canning stuff and have been kicking myself ever since. I'm getting another one, for sure.
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partybuzz
Nov 3, 2009 @ 9:45 pm | delete
- What a nice lens, and great choice of subject. I do have a pressure cooker, but have always been afraid to use the pressure! I've seen those things blow before! :-) Maybe I'll consider purchasing a newer model that is more safe.
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mulberry
Nov 3, 2009 @ 12:26 pm | in reply to JaguarJulie | delete
- Yes I can believe it. I was scared of them too, thought they were old fashioned etc. But they've gained more popularity in recent years as they've improved and now provide an eco friendly, healthy,and quick way of making delicious foods.
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JaguarJulie
Nov 3, 2009 @ 7:30 am | delete
- We had a pressure cooker when I was a kid -- I was always afraid to use it would you believe? So, I never owned one. Do people really use pressure cookers today?
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AndyPo
Nov 3, 2009 @ 4:40 am | delete
- Excellent lens. I haven't used a pressure cooker for years.
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Irenemaria
Nov 3, 2009 @ 3:47 am | delete
- Yes - this is a fantastic invention. The first time I used mine, I stood there staring at it waiting for it to explode and hit the ceiling...hehehe
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Upon-Request
Nov 2, 2009 @ 7:46 pm | delete
- I think you've made an excellent case for me to re-familiarize myself with the pressure cooker!
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