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I bought one recently and am just doing my first lot of stewing steak (for steak & kid pie). Any tips or recipes anyone??

When I was young, I read a cautionary tale about a little girl who used her mum's pressure cooker to make a cake. I think it ended with an explosion, and a hole in the ceiling. I've been terrified of them ever since!

somewhere hidden deep in the back of the kitchen cupboards
yes i have a pressure cooker
its probably full of webs or maybe rusty lol

I had two.... they were brilliant... sons purloined them when they went all studenty on me, and I have never seen them since....... pots, that is... seen the boys, lolol ;¬))

Love

Daff xxxx

I had one nearly forty years ago, frightened the life out of me so I ditched it...lol If I remember rightly I had to drop the weight on when it was hissing like hell :-((
My sister always used hers and when she did I stayed out of the kitchen !

x

I agree with Jeanette, would not be without mine. Food in a pressure cooker keeps all its flavour and gravy made from the stock and juices..........................mmmmmmmmm to die for

Wmsl at scaredy cat, lololol

Thanks all for your input........I just did some beef for a steak & kid pie, think I over cooked tbh.......but it is very tender,,,,. I have the Tefal cooker, it has just the one weight on top (not like the various weights my mum had on her one)...

Now, can I add my gravy from the start or should I not...........

& should i cook stewing steak on high pressure or is it ok on low??

Daff, no weeing on me fred pleaeeeeeeeeeese.lol

*blushes* oops.... forgot me tenna, lol

I was always told to thicken afterwards..... and used to start off stewing steak on high, then go to low... but this was 15 years ago..... can't remember how long for... have you googled? Or go to About.com... they have some pretty good info on that site.

Love

Daff xxx

flings a pack of industrial strengh Tenna's Daff's way.......................


Yes I did look at a forum, and it said cook high for 15 mins and then turn the pressure down..............and I have to make sure I got enuf liqued in.........

when the weight on top started spitting, I hid behind the door...............

*catches tenna and readjusts quickly*

Wmsl (sticks tongue out at Whirley)

Have to say, the first couple of times I used my first, I'd hide behind the door, lol..... but I did get used to it.... some friends of hours nearly had heart failure when I had both going full blast, lol.... the noise! But it does settle down.

Love

Daff xxxx

well i hid behind the door,,,,,,,,,,and had a tea towel on me head................

i shall persyvere with it...........

Erm..... tea towel on your head? What blinking use would that be if your pan exploded, lololol

*changes Tenna*

Love

Daff xxxx

you owe me a keyboard Daff for that remark.................

Well, you owe me a new chair cos I've ruined this one, lololol....... ;¬))

I will always have this image whenever I think of pressure cookers, now!

Love

Daff xxxxx

Daff, haaaaaaaaaaaaa GOOD!!, you can call it ya Whirley Cooker...........

and you owe Di a few Tenna's................

BTW.............are Tenna;s them pad thingys..or we talking dosh??

*flings Tenna's over to Dianne*

Pad thingy's, dosh doesn't mop up spills, lolol

######### for the big man, lol I haven't sent him one for a while.... my sister has the ugliest one ever... crossed with a mastiff... but she is sooooo sweet, lol!!

Love

Daff xxxx

Pass me some tenna quick! What are you all like?
Whirley you wil grow to love it and wonder whatever you did without it. Especially with Christmas coming. The best ham you've ever cooked! The best stews the best veg.so quick.
I never tried puddings though or jams.
I have memory of my Aunty scraping jam off the ceiling!!!
Mine went to saucepan scrap yard in heaven about a year ooh maybe two years ago, so served us about most of our married life..
I am still waiting for tight wad hubby to buy me another!!!

Good to see you back
Love Tricia xx

Thank you Tricia, love to you and Monty,xx