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Do You Have An Electric Pressure Cooker?

10 years ago

I recently bought a small one, six quarts and it came with only two recipes. Now I have cooked with the stove top pressure cooker for many years and wonder how you know if the times are the same for the electric one or are they different? What do you like to cook in yours and what do you not liked cooked in the electric ones? I do have stove top recipe books but so far no electric pressure cooker cook books.

Sue

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John Liu

10 years ago

http://www.hippressurecooking.com/pressure-cooker-psi-faq-the-stuff-you-didnt-think-to-ask/#standard

The link above should help.

I have an electric pressure cooker and a couple stove top PCs. But I don't make things that require precise timing.

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ci_lantro
10 years ago
Stove top pressure cookers usually cook at 15#'s of pressure. Most, if not all, electric cookers operate at less pressure--usually around 12#'s. Some have a couple of settings, high & low, with low being around 8-9#'s as I recall. Can't answer the other questions because I don't have an electric cooker.

Less pressure--add more time to compensate.
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plllog
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Thanks! I was given an electric PC but haven't figured out what to do with it yet...
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shambo
10 years ago
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I have an electric pressure cooker and use it regularly. I especially use it after roasting a whole chicken. I save all the bones & skin and pressure cook them with water and aromatics to produce really tasty and easy chicken broth. I've cooked beets, potatoes, and other hard veggies in it too. I make pork chili verde in it often.

I will tell you this. The pressure of an electric is lower than a stove top cooker, as ci-lantro mentioned. That means that you need to cook things longer than what you'd normally do with your stove top version. Also, my cooker had a lousy recipe book with incorrect times for cooking. I eventually figured out how long a pot roast would take all on my own. Then I went searching for other brands and found the recipe booklet for Cuisinart. It seemed to have more realistic times.

I've linked to the Cuisinart recipe booklet and two websites that have recipes specifically for electric cookers.

Cuisinart Electric Pressure Cooker Recipe Booklet

Pressure Cooking Today

Hip Pressure Cooking
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plllog
10 years ago
Ooh! Thank-you, Shambo!
User
10 years ago
Instant Pot has a sort of cult following and there are many youtube videos and websites dedicated to using it. You can find out how to adopt a ton of recipes to the electric pressure cooker.
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dcarch7 d c f l a s h 7 @ y a h o o . c o m
10 years ago
I don't recommend you do this.

Bones have a lot of nutrition. So I modified my pressure cooker. It can go up to 265F.

Bones get to be fork tender at this temperature. Tasty and healthy treat.

dcarch
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