Pressure Cooker Cooking and Safety
"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
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> Robert (Plymouth) wrote:
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>> "Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
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>>> Robert (Plymouth) wrote:
>>>> Can anybody help please. My aunt has just bought a replacement Prestige
>>>> 3 litre pressure cooker and has been worried to death by the
>>>> instructions. She has an electric flat hob stove, not an electric ring,
>>>> where the heat will not reduce for a few minutes. Is it safe to use?
>>>> She has used her previous pressure cooker for many decades with no
>>>> problem until it started leaking steam recently. any advice will be
>>>> very helpful.
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>>> I might not be comprehending the technical stuff in your terms, but if
>>> you are talking about using a pressure cooker on one of those
>>> glass/ceramic-top ranges, I use mine all the time. I just remove it from
>>> the burner to cool down. Most of the time I am doing a quick cool-down
>>> in the sink under running water. My pressure cooker is a cheap aluminum
>>> one from the big US discount chain and it's never given me a problem on
>>> the glass-top range.
>>>
>>> I hope I understood you correctly.
>>>
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>>> Janet Wilder
>>> Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
>>> Good Friends. Good Life
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>> It's not the glass / ceramic type but it is a flat metal plate that gets
>> hot so it is similar but there is not the immediate reduction in
>> temperature when the pressure cooker comes up to full steam as there
>> would be on a ring or gas hob. Thanks for your reply
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> I have the same factor in the electric range. I have solved this by
> turning on another "burner" at approximately 3 minutes before I expect the
> pressure to come up. Then I simply move the pot to the other burner and
> shut off the one that is still high.
>
> Not perfect, but it works for me.
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> Janet Wilder
> Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
> Good Friends. Good Life
Thanks again
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