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  • From: VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Homestead] pressure cooking.
  • Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:25:15 -0800 (PST)

-- On Mon, 12/15/08, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:

> Lynn, I'd be concerned that there was something wrong
> with the pressure
> cooker. Unless the vent is plugged, it should be just
> about impossible on any
> electric or gas stove (or wood stove for that matter) to
> move the pressure much
> above that regulated by the weight. If one turned the
> flame full force, I
> suppose you could get a few extra pounds. But, on the type
> of canner where the
> weight sits on the vent (rather than screws down to the
> vent) the force of the
> steam should lift the weight clean off the vent before you
> can get much more than
> the pressure the weight regulates.
>

Agreed! The valve should first blow off the pressure cooker, steam will
escape. We learned the hard way not to cook rice in the pressure cooker.
After the safety plug blew, we went back to the book and discovered that they
did suggest never cooking rice in the pressure cooker because rice would stop
up the vent.
When cooking was done we learned to wait until the valve stopped jiggling,
then remove carefully then after steam stopped coming out to take to sink and
run cold water on before opening. Though I seem to remember some recipes the
directions said to take to sink immediately to stop cooking?
Van Dell




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