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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.

Yes, that is what I use mine for
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