"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "graham" > wrote in message
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>> I used to own one and thought I'd try and make some pork cheese/head
>> cheese/brawn in it. My mother used to make it simmering the meat and
>> pigs' feet and hocks all day. Disaster. The higher temperature in the PC
>> extracted a bitterness out of the bones (presumably) and the dish had to
>> be chucked.
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> I tried to use mine for stock from chicken bones. I had the same
> experience. Bitter and had to be chucked. Now if I make that I just
> simmer.
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Mum had one of those high-dome ones (Prestige?) but after a woman in the
village was badly scalded when hers blew up, she stopped using it as a pc
but the thick aluminium made it an ideal stewpot.
Graham