Pressure cookers

[Hoover.]

a few years back I cheapo aluminium russell hobs pressure cooker, primarily to make saltbeef/corned beef...... changed my hob to an induction so the ali pressure cooker wad sent to the recycling place in the sky......

wanting to replace this bit of kit, and not wanting one of them new fangled electric things, I started doing some research,,,,, and god there is some rubbish on the market at some expensive prices...... trying to find a 15psi cooker is a needle in haystack..... eventual ordered a Fagor from the US... it looks like we don't get sold some of the better pressure cookers, and just get the ones that top out at 12 psi....

I love my pressure cooker as some nice meals v quick, n better then a microwave

[Pferdestarke]

I'm always a bit wary using mine. I see it as a boiling beef bomb which could redecorate my entire kitchen-diner in a coat of greasy gravy.

Still, they are good for making tough cuts tender in no time at all.

I find that the UK is behind many other countries in relation to quality and expectations of cooking kit. I've been looking for home hot and cold smokers of late and the range is poor compared to The U.S.

[calibrax]

Pferdestarke said:

I'm always a bit wary using mine. I see it as a boiling beef bomb which could redecorate my entire kitchen-diner in a coat of greasy gravy.

This is where the electronic ones win. There's no sense of danger to them at all. I have the Instant Pot and unlike many kitchen gadgets it has lasted the course, got it 4 months ago and I still use it every week. Also works as a slow cooker and rice maker, so it actually saved me space on the worktops too.

Yes, it operates at 12psi rather than 15psi, but it still does a wonderful job.

[Hoover.]

I've never looked at a pressure cooker as a bomb ,that is so 1970's and modern ones have 4 or 5 fail safe valves ...........albeit my last one was a cheapish Murphy Richards Ali job with rotating whistling weight

I did consider electric but decided on hob top one instead

Been looking for a few weeks on the net and doing some reading etc .......most are 11/12 psi with only a handful achieving 15psi ........and this doesn't fall in the marketing literature BUT is hidden away in the manuals and then it's recorded in bar or kn/mm2 or some other form of measurement, which you then have to convert for comparison purposes

Waiting for my package from the U.S. now

[DeuxCentCinq]

Hoover. said:

I've never looked at a pressure cooker as a bomb

Well then you've never entered the Boston Marathon.

[smack]

Kuhn Rikon Pressure Cookers work at 15psi. I have had one for a year and very happy with it.

Talking to my mum when I bought it, she said her father who was an Engineer was working I guess late 50's or early 60's for the Government Department which was the National Standards Body/Food Standards Agency at the time, and was testing and certifying commerical or consumer equipment.
At the time pressure cookers started to come out and the manufacturers were sending in there protoype units, and he brought home many for my grandma to use, and many ended up blowing up and making a mess of the kitchen celling!
Mum recalled the sound of things blowing up in the house was common (he was in the Engineering Corps during the war, so probably enjoyed blowing stuff up, my grandma I am sure didn't think the same way, after another cooker fails and blows up for her!)
The best made one that didn't fail, she kept.