Pressure Cooker and Crock Pot

[Bio-T]

How many people on here still use a pressure cooker to cook meals? My wife is cooking sauerkraut and pork chops right now in a 6 quart that we use. One of my favorite meals, Frank's sauerkraut and pork chops.

Years ago when my wife worked, and the kids were still home in school, she used a crock pot to slow cook meals. Now it is to big for two people. So we are buying a smaller one. I miss my hot chili slow cooked in a crock pot. Forget the diet, slow cooked Hot chili on a cold winter day is to live for.

 

[Al]

We don't use it often. But we use it a couple of times per year to cook my home made kraut an port o n New Year and maybe one or other times to do Kraut and "Hippy Hot Dogs" You haven't lived unless you have eaten home made kraut and Hippy Dogs

Make sure when you buy a new Crock it has the insert (liner) that you can take out and wash.

 

[Shannow]

I love stew cooked all day in a crockpot.

Never had a pressure cooker...scared of them actually (and I walk past a boiler at 2500psi, and 1000F every day) go figure.

 

[sprintman]

We cookup big curries etc in a 5-litre slow crockpot and then eat some and freeze the rest. Saves a lot of time and trouble

 

[eljefino]

Pressure cookers are dangerous in that it only takes around 2 minutes to cook vegetables. Some people don't know this and manage to make green beans into the grossest, limp brown things ever seen!

I like the ones with the PSI gauge on top. Something to watch.

 

[Mamala Bay]

Best stew and chicken soup in crockpot...more veggie better the flavor...you can taste everything what you put in it.

 

[Pablo]

My mum's blew up when I was a kid. Burned my brother with boiling+ food. "safety valve" didn't safety... back then my Dad didn't think of lawyers immediately or I probably wouldn't be chatting with you chimps

Brother is still more handsome than me.

Crock pots are OK. Great for Italian tomato sauce overnight (believe it or not). Mexican pork dishes are awesome in the pot as well...but we use ours maybe 4-5 times a year.

I want a panini cooker....or a George Foreman griller....

 

[XS650]

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Originally posted by Pablo:

Crock pots are OK. Great for Italian tomato sauce overnight (believe it or not). Mexican pork dishes are awesome in the pot as well...but we use ours maybe 4-5 times a year.

I want a panini cooker....or a George Foreman griller....

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We've got 2 G. Foreman Grills. Someone gave us one. We used it quite a bit then discovered it did a good job of grilling veggies. Couldn't fit the meaat and pile of veggies on one grill.

 

[Bio-T]

Pablo,

The small pressure cookers have the rubber safety pop off, plus the pressure is maintained by a weight on a bleed off stem. So the chances of that happening again is very remote.

 

[Pablo]

I was probably 6 or 7 at the time. About 1964. Dunno what the design was, just my dad telling me...

 

[moribundman]

A few years ago I was looking for a decent pressure cooker but saw only really poorly made ones and nothing like the kind I knew first-hand years ago. What brand that is available in the US can you recommend?

 

[Bill J.]

Kuhn-Rikon Pressure Cookers

These have at least 4 safety pressure reliefs.
Heavy duty stainless steel

 

[Bio-T]

Our new one is a Presto 6 quart. It is the less expensive aluminum one, but we do use it alot and it is holding up very nicely for the price. Do a Google and you will find some good info. We like the safety of this pressure cooker. Now the old canning ones with a pressure guage were good as long as you set the bleed off correctly and watched them.

 

[moribundman]

I'm familair a with Kuhn Rikon, but I haven't ever seen them anywhere here. The prices I find online are outrageous.
I just checked the stainless steel 4 and 6 quart Presto. I think the 4 quart one might be big enough for us. The quality looks much better than what I saw in the stores a few years ago. Thanks for the tip!

 

[Ugly3]

Nothing better than corn on the cob prepared in a pressure cooker, nothing!

 

[Shannow]

Ugly, poached in beer, then cooked over a red hot Gas BBQ ain't bad either.

edit: I meant the corn (not that I've had it pressure cooked 'though)

 

[Shannow]

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Originally posted by Pablo:
George Foreman griller....

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We were at a friend's house and used one a while ago.

'kin awesome how much fat gets tipped in to a milk carton filled with kitty litter and given to someone to throw in the fireplace.

Better there than eating the stuff.

 

[Al]

I think the advantages of a pressure cooker are low. Thts why you don't see them

Reallly the only thing they can do is cook faster. Slow cooking with a crock pot is really where its at bc the flavor has time to come out. There are some foods that need the higher temps for canning, but things that have acid don't need a pressure cooker. I can sauerkraut without a pressure cooker.

 

[Scott P]

I've never used a pressure cooker. I honestly don't know whay I would use one. We have been trying to use the crock pot a bit more lately. I recently tried a nice chicken recipie in it that has become a standard for us.

 

[rugerman1]

We have about about 10 pressure cookers and canners.Replacing the safety valve at regular intervals is SOP.Food is not only cooked faster in a pressure cooker,it's better.Tough cuts of meat are incredibly tender.Veggeies taste better too.
We used to can more than we do now.When I was growing up,we'd can about 500 quarts of veggies and meat.Tomatoe juice and whole tomatoes are the biggies.Just about everthing grown in the garden got canned.I even canned the last deer I harvested.
Making hot sausage for yer Super Bowl party? Put the hot sausage and some water in the pressure cooker for about a half hour.Pour off the water/grease afterwards.Now the (basically) low-fat HS is ready for the red sauce.Good Eatin'.