Cooking under pressure: In avocado of course

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I love pressure cookers and pressure cooking. In fact there are't many days that I don't in fact use one for something or other. Recently I just bought a totally electronic/automated one which I'm very happy with but I still have a couple of my stove top models. Here's a mint 1970 Presto I found not long ago in beautiful avocado. I haven't used it either, just keeping it for display.
 
Use it for green beans

They would match the cooker. I use ours almost exclusively for snap fresh green beans and they look and taste so much better than when boiled in a pan. I want more recipes too.
 
I here ya Pete...

Just last week I fired up the Presto Cook-Master 404 to make some barbecued beef short ribs. De-lish!
Had to go to several different super markets to find some. They used to be one of the cheapest parts of the cow, but judging from the price they must now be a designer cut.
I used a recipe for barbecued spare ribs and adjusted the cooking time for the meatier short ribs.
Later this week....pork and sauerkraut.

Bill
 
I don't have a bunch of recipes per se but I use the pc for cooking vegetables, rice, pot roasts, chicken breasts, stews etc. It's so much faster to cook potatoes compared to boiling them. What I really like is the ability to cook a beef stew from start to finish including prep time in less than 30 minutes and have it come out as close to and I think as good as one that has been in a slow cooker all day.
Bryan do you use your pc to cook veggies? You don't actually place them in water, just add about 1 and 1/2 cups of water and then put the pototoes or whatever on a trivet,strainer, steamer basket over top of the water in the pan. You can do them directly in water as well.
Pot roasts are simple..brown the roast in the pc cooker with a bit of oil. Add 1 1/2 cups of water flavored with spices/beef broth and that's it. simple and done in very short order.
 
The pressure cooker books

I highly recommend are written by Lorna Sass. Titles include Cooking Under Pressure, and the newest, Pressure Perfect. Most public libraries have one or two of her titles, and can get the others through Interlibrary Loan.

Tom Lacalamita's Pressure Cooking For Dummies is good too, but just not as appealing to me as the Lorna Sass books.

Presto's site has downloadable/printable recipes for pressure cookers.

That is a beauty, Pete!

Link should return to Presto's home page, and you can navigate to the recipes from there.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 
recipe books

Maytagbear is right on the money when he references Lorna Sass. I have four of her books devoted solely to pressure cooking.

Cooking Under Pressure (1989)
Complete Vegetarian Kitchen (1992) - has stir fry recipes, too
Great Vegetarian Cooking Under Pressure (1994)
Pressure Perfect (2004)

Her style is very conversational, upbeat. And while she has many traditional homecooking recipes (roasts, stews, beans), she takes pressure cooking to a new level: curries, risottos, interesting soups (for example, lentil with dried apricots.)

I have found her cooking times to be slightly understated, so I usually add two minutes to the cook time, and the recipes come out fine. She also gives pointers on how to cook a regular recipe in the pressure cooker.

I also have the Official Presto Cookbook, which has many good recipes. They are more on the order of Taste of Home.

For the above books I often substitute the called-for cut of meat with either boneless/skinless chicken breasts or boneless pork chops (all fat removed) and use the following cooking times: 7 minutes for the chicken, 13 minutes for the chops - letting the pressure come down on its own. The results are terrific. (the pork is so tender it flakes like fish.)

I'll pull a couple of my favorites, post them. I'm thinking apple pork chops, carrot soup, and lemon chicken. Yum.
 
Yay for the Pressure Cooker!! I believe it was Venus who said she was going to cook her corn beef in the pressure cooker for St. Patricks Day. I was a little late fixing one this year but this past week I decided it was time. I have always boiled or used the slow cooker in the past. This year I tried the pressue cooker and it was hands down by far the best corn beef I have ever fixed, Just followed the directions with the Presto cooker, 2 cups of water and cooked it for 60 min. Remove from the heat and let the pressure drop on its own. It was outstanding. Another hint with corn beef that my mom always did was when you remove it from the pot, place it on a plate and use another plate on top of it to press the meat. Put something heavy on the top plate. Let this cool to room temp and you will be amazed at how nice the corn beef will slice. Terry
 
Presto pressure cookers are surprisingly popular....

At the shop we sell several gaskets for them a week.

Those ladies know how to cook.

Corey
 
When I was a small lad-my Mom had an old Presto cooker-its bobbing pressure regulator entranced me-and I was given srict orders NOT to touch it.I beleive she still has that pot somewhere.She doesn't use pressure cookers anymore.She is now sort of afraid of it.It looks like the Advocado one has a similar regulator.she cooked all kinds of meals in it-some of the potroasts were so good!!
 
Pressure Cooker Cookbooks

Brian, I love pressure cooking. My mom always used one. Use it for stews, pot roasts, corned beef, pork chops vegetables, soups, Kielbasi and Sauerkraut etc.

Some great pressure cooker cook books are:
Cooking Under Pressure
Pressure Perfect
The Pressured Cook.

These are all by author Lorna Sass.
These are just a few.

You can see these and more at www.amazon.com.
Pressure Cooking really tenderizes meat and makes the whole meal very flavorful. I have a Cuisinart 8qt, Presto 6qt and 4qt, a Fagor 6qt, and a Cookes Essentials Electric. The Presto's I have aquired from family. The others ones were gifts, or I just bought. As far as safety, we have been using for 50 years and never had a problem. THe newer ones are even more safe than the older ones.

Have fun and enjoy.

Ray
 
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... and whoever dies with the most toys WINS.

HMMM does having more than one will ever need or use provide some sort of emotional comfort?

(Ducks and runs like hell.)

I love to bust -em Ray,
TE HE HE HE

Thank you very kindly for the St. Joseph home-sellers kit statuette. That is a heart-felt *thank you*.
 
At flea markets, book sales, used book stores, estate sales, Ebay, almost anywhere, you can pick up old Presto and MirroMatic cooking/instructions booklets. Lots of good recipes in them.

We had the Avocado Presto in a 6 qt, also a Mirro 6 qt and mom's original Presto 4 qt. with wooden handles from just after the war. We used to do eye of round roasts in the 6 qt cookers, then potatoes and carrots in the broth.

Like the situation with my other appliance treasures, I am just about hip deep in pressure cookers also.
 
... and whoever dies with the most toys WINS.

Now Toggles.......... You better be running. (Just kidding). They come in all different sizes... (the pressure cookers that is, LOL) One of them was a gift, two of them were from family members that passed on, and the other two I bought.

Ya see.... I like to have extras just in case some of my BEST FRIENDS would need one, or if they had to set up house again.
There are a lot of duplicates in my appliance/kitchen gadget 7 foot wide, 8 foot high closet with ceiling to floor shelves. This still was not enough room, so the spill over went to the utility room and garage. I think I have way to much. But it is so...much fun to collect.

BTW Toggles...... Did I just see pics of quite a few Vintage Coffee pots that you just posted???? HMMMMMM?? HMMMMM?

PS: I hope St. Joseph helps!
PS: Also have a lot of fun being busted! LOL Keep up the good work. LOL ROLF
 
Well ... I've got 3; two Presto stainless steel ones (one was my Mom's; one mine) AND I've got the Fagor (yes ... Toggles)stainless steel chicken broaster/pressure cooker. Love them all. I've always loved pressure cooking.

Like Ray said ... stews, pot roasts, etc. ... all very good in a pressure cooker. My favorite is chicken; there's something very comforting about pressure-cooked chicken. It just comes apart from the bone (be careful, the bones come apart, too!). The broth is intense and very good. I love homemade chicken and rice and/or chicken and noodles.

I love frying chicken in the Fagor. It is really very good and while there is oil absorption into the meat, it's minimal. I use a good peanut oil to fry in. Pressure frying chicken is wonderful and quick; about 3 minutes per pound of boneless meat.

I take that back ... I've got four!! The 4th one is my huge Presto pressure canner!! It holds 6 (or 8...can't remember) quart jars at a time. :-)
 
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