Pressure cookers

[don4l]

The OH and I are both great fans of the pressure cooker.

This Christmas we cooked the ham in it, and later made a turkey soup/stew with the remnants of the turkey. We also used it for the Christmas pudding.

All turned out fantastic.

We often do Irish Stew, and the wife likes to do a chick peas and bacon dish in it.

I would like to use this fantastic implement a bit more.

Does anybody else use one, and if so, what do you cook in it?

[don4l]

Mobile Chicane said:

Heston advocates making stock in it as the rapid heating and short cooking time keep the volatile flavour molecules in.

The turkey soup that I made involved three seperate stages. The first was just turkey bones and neck for 50 minutes.

The bones were removed, and vegetables were added. Potato, carrot, onion, celery, nutmeg, bay leaf, oregano and pepper. Lots of pepper. Back in the pressure cooker for 30 minutes.

Finally some broken up thin noodles were added and left to sit for 6 minutes.

It ended up as a delicious stew.

It looks like not many people are using pressure cookers these days.