What do you use a pressure cooker for?
"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> Assuming that you do use one. My mom used to have one but used it
>> rarely.
>> She was always afraid it would explode. And I've read countless old
>> timey
>> stories where they did explode. I gather that the new ones don't do
>> that.
>
> Mostly to sterilize Petri dishes back
> when I attempted to grow mushrooms.
> It takes a full hour to sterilize a
> starch agar -- 50 minutes ain't enough.
>
> I cooked a raw chicken carcass in one,
> after cutting off the desirable parts
> of meat. It did a nice job of cooking
> the remaining meat, so I could pick it
> off and use it for other things.
Thanks!
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