Excelsteel 6 Quart Stainless Steel Stove

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 at 12:11 pm

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Forget whatsoever horror stories you heard when it comes to your grandmother’s pressure cooker. For time saving, flavor and nutrition no cooking method beats today’s safe and authenti pressure cookers. You may get home at 7:00 and have a complete, fresh, homecooked meal on the table by 7:30 or even earlier. Put those soggy, bland microwave meals behind you, and get ready to receive the adulation of your adoring family.

Here is how a pressure cooker works it is magic. The cover or lid locks in place creating a closed scheme at a usual 15 pounds of pressure. At this pressure water boils at 257 degrees F rather of the standard 212 degrees F. The higher temperature cooks the feed faster. About three times more immediate than regular stove top cooking methods. Small to medium-sized potatoes cook in five minutes, and a whole “roast” chicken dinner cooks in only twenty minutes. All foods, vegetables in particular, keep their color and their flavor. Nutrients stay trapped in the pot rather of dissipating in a cloud of steam.

For family use the Kuhn Rikon 7 liter stainless steel pressure cooker is the gold standard. An aluminum disk in the base, sandwiched by stainless steel, cooks evenly on gas, electric, ceramic and induction stovetops. That old, dancing pressure valve that frighted the beejezus out of your grandmother is substituted with progressed safety features that quietly regulate pressure and keep the lid safely locked while the contents are pressurized.

Presto pressure cookers have been around for a long time and offer a potpourri of dissimilar sized stainless steel and aluminum pots. Professional chefs prefer a stainless pressure cooker because it is nonreactive and may be safely cleaned in a dishwasher, but aluminum is likewise a good choice if weight is a consideration. You want heat immune double handles, one on each side of the pot, in each case. A 6 quart pressure cooker is minimum family size. Go more spectacular if you will use it as a canner.

You are better off sticking with a name brand manufacturer even when price is your essential consideration. Quality control is likely to be better but more significantly you want to be competent to get substitute parts when you need them five or ten years from now. Valves get lost. Gaskets wear out or get damaged. A loose fitting lid doesn’t affect your stock pot but it will put your pressure cooker out of business.

Many models come with utile accessaries like racks, trivets or vegetable steamers which keep feed from sticking to the bottom of the pot. Most chefs brown meats before attaching the lid so sticking does occur. You may still want to refrain from nonstick interiors, however. The occasional inconvenience of a little extra cleaning far outweighs the peril of a pitted or peeling interior coating. Nonstick interiors are less of a potential problem with electric pressure cookers.

Cuisinart makes a programmable electric pressure cooker worth considering. Priced amongst the Presto and the Kuhn Rikon pressure cooker it is push-button controls and digital display make an beautiful package. The Cuisnart may be programmed for high or low pressure cooking, browning, simmering, sauteing or warming. And you got to confess that an electronic thermostat is more foolproof than setting a stovetop control to a precise position. You do give up a lot of flexibility, however, because you can’t open the lid until the cooker says you can. With the stove top models you may instantaneously drop the pressure and open the lid by putting the unit underneath cold water.

Dozens of specialized pressure cooking recipe books are available.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Works Great!
By K. Mauk
I got this for a friend who goes through the electric deep fryers like toilet paper. He loves this deep fryer. I holds just the right amount of food. It does not take up any precious counter space. And it works perfectly.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
Great for the price
By yet another alias
Stainless pot, chrome-plated basket. I like the basket design with the integrated handle. The whole thing folds up so the lid can be placed over basket, handle, and all for storage. Looks well made in general.

Two quarts of oil is almost too much without it bubbling over when submerging the basket with 1.5lbs of fries. With 2qts of oil the level just reaches the bottom of the basket in the raised position.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Does What It’s Suppose To
By NEO
Not too much to say here. I bought this to make french fries, onion rings, etc. It stayed nice and hot once the oil was up to temperature and the basket handle didn’t get too hot when the food was ready to comeout. It might serve as a backup pot of some kind but, for the price, I think I’ll just keep it as a deep fryer and leave it at that. Recommended!

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