Pressure Cooking

[reiner]

Originally Posted by Bergovoy

i make a chicken curry in a skillet... sliced chicken breasts, thin strips... two onions chopped up into small pieces...

brown onion (dark), then add chicken and brown chicken, then add curry mix.. (i like the kind in the box/tray... and i like medium hot...

then you can add carrots or water chestnuts, and I like the small chinese corn on the cobb thigns..

then cook some rice... and while hte rice is cooking, the curry sauce thickens up.. then when rice is done ladel the sauce with chicken onto the rice


sorry for not measurements of stuff... i never measure anyting except desert stuff.. and baking things...

can't be any good.....it's not cooked in a pressure cooker :-)

Reiner

[downunder]

berg

a few posts ago but

15 psi is close to atmospheric pressues (1 ATM = 14.7 psi) and any metal container will handle that easily

[tager]

I bought a pressure cooker just because of this thread and it was the best $40 I ever spent!

[Bergovoy]

Originally Posted by downunder

berg

a few posts ago but

15 psi is close to atmospheric pressues (1 ATM = 14.7 psi) and any metal container will handle that easily

as stated a few messages prior to the few messages prior to that...

i didnt stated the pressure, somoene else did.. i used it as the'number' with the caveat that i didnt know what the pressure was...'

The pressure , whatever it is , is signficant enough to be potentially catostrophic.. erego the safety measures and devices installed and manufactured into the pressure cooker...

if those fail, the cooker will exceed the design pressure, and the safety devices should kick in, if they dont the pressure will rise and rise until the pot fails, catostrophically..

[lyfbond]

Originally Posted by Hannah on 'Rita T'

Stove broke and I cooked a meat loaf in the pressure cooker last night. I'll never cook one in the oven again. Brown the cold meatloaf in the pressure cooker, I used a 2 1/2 quart small one, then add tomato sauce, I didn't have tomato sauce so used canned tomatoes I junked up with herbs and Worcestershire. Twenty-five minutes at pressure and natural relese. Unbelievable, tend meatloaf with roasted tomatoes is the result.

that sounds yummy! you made me think of trying that procedure. :-)
...for some experiment.

[Hannah on 'Rita T']

My Kuhn Ricoh took a header off the stove earlier this week, luckily it was empty but that is probably why it was light to to fly in choppy seas. And the pressure mechanism flew in pieces around thegalley. I didn't even know what pieces I had and what I had lost. I ended up calling Sara's Pantry and the most knowledgeable person answered the phone. Talked me through every piece and said she would overnight them. After the conversation ended, she called back to explain how I could use the pressure cooker and was I sure I wanted to spend the money for overnighting. That is excellent service in my mind.

[Bergovoy]

definatly nice customer service... something we dont see or hear very often...

[Hannah on 'Rita T']

Correction: Shar's Kitchen Center.

[Brent Swain]

Soak overnight a cup of 18 bean soup mix from the bulk foods source( Very cheap) Sea water is OK.Rinse several times ( with seawater if needed) till the rinse water is clear. Drain.
Add three cups of fresh water, a squirt of ketchup, a teaspoon of chile powder, a couple tablespoons of demerara sugar, a squirt of cooking oil or a tablespoon of lard( to stop it from foaming and plugging the rocker, works with split pea soup as well)a shake of Cajun spice, a chopped onion , and cook it at 17 pounds, for 30 minutes ,with the rocker rocking slowly.
Let cool at its own speed before opening it.
Great bean soup.
To save left overs , bring back up to pressure and leave the rocker on, canned in the pressure cooker. (works well with left over fish ,etc as well)
The soup will thicken to a paste in the next few hours, making an awesome burrito filer.

[Brent Swain]

Rinse a cup of split peas till the water runs clear( to get the farts out, in seawater if neccesary) Add three cups of fresh water , a heaping tablespoon of lard or two of cooking oil, a tablespoon of demerara sugar, a sprinkle of cajun spice , then cook at 17 pounds pressure, with just enough heat to barely keep the rocker moving slowly, ( any more heat will burn it) for 17 minutes . Let cool at it's own speed before opening it.
Good pea soup, extremely cheap. Thickens with time.

[Skylark]

Beans and Rice
This meal is excellent and very satisfying, you can eat it day after day and not get tired of it. Makes 3 servings

Rinse and soak 1 cup pinto beans for at least 6 hours
In a pressure cooker:
Simmer a medium chopped onion and a chopped garlic clove in oil
Add beans and enough water to cover them
Add 1 Tbs each: dehydrated carrot, dehydrated celery, dehydrated leek
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
Cook under pressure 15 minutes, let cool
Add 1 tsp salt and 1 tsp bullion
Heat up to boiling, stir
Drain liquid from beans into a measuring cup
Put beans aside in a bowl
Top up measuring cup with water to 2 cups
Return liquid to pressure cooker
Add 1 cup brown rice
Cook 15 minutes under pressure, let cool
Eat rice and beans on a tortilla with thin sliced cabbage, hot sauce and chopped tomato if you have it.

Good quality dehydrated vegetables here: Leeks

[boatman61]

Jeez.... whats with all this 'survival food'..... rice n beans... I can turn this out in a pan in the same time...

[QUester51]

Originally Posted by GordMay

Greetings and welcome aboard the CF, QUester51.

Thank you, i'm looking forwad to great conversations

[Tbrad]

Hmmm. Now you guys have got me thinkin' pressure cooker. But tell me somethin' Hannah; how do you go about "browning" a meatloaf in a pressure cooker? I have browned pork chops and roasts in a skillet but , being a guy with little culinary skills I picture myself trying to flip a meatloaf several times in an effort to brown it on all sides and then winding up with the basis for chili con carne instead of meatloaf. Help me please!

[harmonytek]

Originally Posted by Tbrad

Hmmm. Now you guys have got me thinkin' pressure cooker. But tell me somethin' Hannah; how do you go about "browning" a meatloaf in a pressure cooker? I have browned pork chops and roasts in a skillet but , being a guy with little culinary skills I picture myself trying to flip a meatloaf several times in an effort to brown it on all sides and then winding up with the basis for chili con carne instead of meatloaf. Help me please!

The rubber seals and other bits are all in the lid. without the lid a pressure cooker is just a pan. Brown meats in the bottom using tongs or wooden spoon to turn as needed. All the brown bits in the bottom of the pan (fond) will disolve in the liquid when you cook. Just make sure you have at least the minimum amount of liqiud in the pan when you put the lid on.