Pressure Cooker recommendations?

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Pressure Cooker recommendations?

Post: # 112196Post Karen_D »

My slow cooker is pining for the fjords and I've decided to replace it with a pressure cooker (now I'm home more during the day and want to cook more beans and pulses).

Any recommendations as to a good one within a reasonable price range?

Wassail

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Re: Pressure Cooker recommendations?

Post: # 112208Post MKG »

I may be biassed, but I wouldn't use anything but the Prestige cookers with the very deep lids - around £40.
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Re: Pressure Cooker recommendations?

Post: # 112235Post tiggy »

My mother gave me hers because she didnt get on with it,Boris has managed a spectacular gravy fountain all over the cooker and has threatened it with an engineered solution. It does seem a bit tempermental compared to my old aluminium one which I parted with because of concerns about aluminium in contact with food. So this stainless one is a prestige model 6189 with rise n time indicator and Im glad I didnt buy it!!!!! Why dont they just make a stainless version of the good old highdome. Boris says that Amazon sell assorted pressure cookers and you can look at customer reviews before commiting hard cash.Probably worth asking freinds as well Good Luck

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Re: Pressure Cooker recommendations?

Post: # 112253Post snapdragon »

I bought my stainless one in France, and was sooo thrilled to see so many on the shelves (Carrefour I think) it's a 'spin the weights' job like the old skyline ones
After owning high and low dome presteiges, skylines and tefal (all aluminium) this one is an ultra low but I bought it for day to day rather than preserving.
not as reliable as the old presteige I'd say but that might be my cack-handedness
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