TTMA Pressure Cookers

[jessila]

So I saw the announcement that biblio made about that pressure cooker being on sale. And now I'm trying to figure out if I need one of these in my life.

How does it work?
What can you make in it?
Does it make life easier?
Are they hard to clean?
Is it more practical than a slow cooker? Is it the same thing?

I know nothing about these. Tell me all the things.

[beersandweirs]

We have a pressure cooker, but not like the one posted, just one that goes on the stove. I honestly have no idea how it works, husband is the only one that has used it and he was the one who insisted we put it on our wedding registry.

We have made 1 dish with it, that's it. It didn't seem like something we couldn't have made in a normal pot, but it was much quicker.

[belle0720]

I just bought my mom a plug-in one for her birthday (because her stove top is seriously janky) and it's AMAZING! It's like a slow cooker on crack.

[jessila]

I asked my sister if she had one. She said she didn't and her only frame of reference was this picture from Reddit.

[belle0720]

FYI though there is some ethical controversy with the Instant Pot company regarding the use of the "R-Word"

www.sheknows.com/living/articles/1119585/instant-pot-r-word

I think this is the one we got my mom:

www.amazon.com/Power-Pressure-Cooker-XL-Quart/dp/B00MZZXO4W/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1462467336&sr=8-7&keywords=pressure+cooker

[billyhorrible]

We have one like beersandweirs, not an insta-pot.

I love it, but FFTC, I'm terrified of it and won't use it. (I also have a fear of adding air to car tires) Anything that gets pressure cooked I make DH be in charge of. We use it for artichokes mostly, but also make our corned beef in it for St. Patrick's Day.

One of my friends has the insta-pot and she adores it:
www.wanlifetolive.com/search/label/instant%20pot

[sugarkissed]

I don't have one, but DH wants one to add to his never ending list of appliances.

Kind of unrelated but appliance so it's related: NOT the same thing, not even a pressure cooker, but we have this, and it's currently on sale: anovaculinary.com
It's a sous vide cooker and it's been amazing!

[beersandweirs]

May 5, 2016 13:50:56 GMT -5 sugarkissed said:

I don't have one, but DH wants one to add to his never ending list of appliances.

Kind of unrelated but appliance so it's related: NOT the same thing, not even a pressure cooker, but we have this, and it's currently on sale: anovaculinary.com
It's a sous vide cooker and it's been amazing!

We have one of these, too. A different brand, but the same thing. Husband is ALWAYS looking for an excuse to use it. We actually do use it pretty frequently to bulk cook a bunch of meat for lunches.

[belle0720]

sugarkissed At a work lunch a while back a couple of the guys were talking about sous vide. I still don't even understand how it works.

[belle0720]

sugarkissed Well now that your link explained it way better than my coworkers, I kinda want to buy it for my mom for Mother's Day. I do think I'd feel weird eating slightly pink chicken though!

[beersandweirs]

I was looking at the sous vide recipe page and I noticed a lot of them are from Kenji from the food lab. I am pretty sure my husband would leave me for Kenji if given the chance!

[sugarkissed]

May 5, 2016 14:56:38 GMT -5 belle0720 said:

sugarkissed Well now that your link explained it way better than my coworkers, I kinda want to buy it for my mom for Mother's Day. I do think I'd feel weird eating slightly pink chicken though!

The chicken we've made has never really looked pink, for the record. Chicken is one of those things that I always over cooked but this has made it awesome.