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Pressure Cookers Anyone?
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Hello Everyone,
I’ve been trying to figure out which pressure cooker to buy for the past couple of months. Our family is a total of 8 people, (children from 17 down to 6.) I’ve been looking over all of the posts for grocery shopping, menu plans etc.I feel our next step is the pressure cooker for beans and some quick meals. My current questions are for price and size of cooker. I’m kind of leaning toward a 6 quart maybe 8 quart.
I’m really wanting your opinions and recipes for refried beans and cooking large meat meals to possibly freeze or can while using the pressure cooker.
Thankyou for any help/advise
MeadowLark
I am interested in this as well, I don’t own one, and wondered what I would use one for and if it would be a benefit or not. Looking forward to the answers.
I can’t help but my friend has an ELECTRIC pressure cooker. I have always been scared of the steam coming out of the top and trying to figure out how long to do everything. She loves the cooker and says it’s really easy to use. I can envision using it especially when we move (PCS) while staying in hotels (TLF). When I lived in Brazil every family had a pressure cooker and we had black beans and rice every day. It was heaven. They also made soups, stews and cooked meat quickly to put on top of rice. I’m pretty sure you can can all the stuff with the electric one that needs to be canned in a pressure cooker (boy, that was a lot of cans!).
If you cooked up a big roast you could have any of these meals: roast, bbq sandwiches, french dip sandwiches, tacos/burritos/tostadas, a big main dish salad with beef, enchiladas. Same with chicken – if you cooked up a batch you could use it for a ton of recipes either made ahead and frozen, or just keep small portions of the cooked meat to use later.
Heather
I’m with you Heather, all that steam makes me nervous as well – I can see it being useful for a PCS or in a pokey TLF when space economy is essential – and it sounds like it works great – so does anyone have one and use it??
PCS is a military term for moving. Permanent Change of Station. ummm… TLF? Temporary Living (something?) LOL!
We’re Air Force Reservists and I was an AirForce baby with Dad that transferred to the Army… Military Brat 🙂 I still don’t know all of the terms!
I’ve been questioning this Pressure cooker for a while and have been nervous about the steam as well. Still, the idea of great meals with quick cooking times and possibly lowering the cost of some meals sounds like something I want to do more of.
Temporary Living Facility – it means “small hotel room into which you must cram your entire family and cheerfully stay there for a month or more.” Typically they have no ovens, just a stove top, fridge and microwave.
One of my friends has the electric one and she loves it because it doesn’t have the scary steam stuff going on. It does have it, but it’s controlled by the machine and not as “much” as the stovetop kind. I know she uses it frequently as do all the women in her family (one year every woman got one for Christmas, all the sisters, sisters-in-laws, etc).
I think the woman over at Urban Homemaker uses a pressure cooker frequently and she has some recipes and ideas.
Heather
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