I would start with assuming 1 hour at high pressure = 3-4 hours normal slow boiling/simmering.

I haven't had a pressure cooker in years, but I am experienced in cooking large amounts of soup, and think a pressure cooker is not the way to go, because you are limited in the amount of liquid you can cook at a time. Sure you can do it in batches and eventually put it all together....but isn't that counter productive? wouldn't it be easier to start with meat in a pot and add the rest?

PC cooking gets you different food textures from other cooking methods. I don't think you can convert one to the other.

For instance, you can't convert deep frying chicken to steaming chicken.

dcarch

The specific recipe I was looking g at was to use a slow cooker for eight hours. That is a two day project. If I can do it in a pc I could do it all in one day. The soup is put in individual one quart containers so it never had to be all together. So how do you know which recipes you can convert to p c?

Can you tell us what the recipe is?

I would have said the same as John.

I think it has great potential in the kitchen but for quick cooking a bit differently. It is not a crock pot of the long low and slow. A pot of beans quick, etc.

But not a dump it all in and expect a good stew, soup in an hour.

I did try recently, last week in fact, to help a friend with her new pc...a gift her husband bought for the both of them over the holidays...

She put it all in and was disappointed that she had to wait for the 'cool down' time...lol. And hated the smush food outcome. Felt she wasted all that time and effort...and the cost.

I suggested she start her dried beans with some diced veg and get it going...cube her beef, season, then pop it in the oven to roast with some coarse chopped veg and garlic...1/2 hour-ish (?)...beans, garbanzos, or bean of choice in the pc...and even remove half the beans for a later dish when done in the pc....add the beef cubes and veg and pc for the final time...."no way will i ever do that!" was the response. She does not cook and does not want to i think.

Then another veggie dish i suggested, while the grain/beans were pc cooking, she saute' some veg, and further mixed veggies in a side saute' pan, even some greens ...the horror. "oh no, i would never do that". lol.

They actually eat really well. Careful, organic, lots of raw. Simple choices. (she is our medic on staff and a good friend). Just has no interest in cooking.

But i don't even have a pc, so what do i know, haha. oh well.

Maybe there is something (bit of food etc) under the seal. Or the seal isn't set fully in its channel. I've never had a problem with the seal on my PCs but I could see the potential for a glitch.

Oh, when I suggested cooking times, I was thinking of my stovetop PC. If yours is electric, then high pressure is not quite as high and cooking times would be a bit longer. Doubt precision will matter for this dish anyway.

I use a stove top pressure cooker and an electric one. Generally with both I have to reduce the volume of whatever I am cooking in a slow cooker by one third when using a pressure cooker. A stove top PC cooks a mean soup in about an hour. My electric PC cooks the same in about 45 minutes. I cook my soups on "high" which for my electric PC is the "meat" setting.

Sleevendog, I laughed when I read the story about your friend. I too often think it is too much trouble to salute something. I too dream of throwing everything in one magical pot and it will produce a wonderful meal in record time. We want this using just basic ingredients, leaving only a few dirty dishes. Doesn't every one dream of this? Ha ha

I don't know if this will help you, or not, but it might be a good jumping board ---

Minestrone soup

All for naught. I put the meat in and browned it. Then added the other ingredients. Way to much volume to run it as a PC. Thankfully it has a slow cooker button. Have 2 slow cookers running now.

Big pot, low heat, back burner. Less to clean up.

High temperature today was -4 so I have a stove top bias.