Re: Need recommendations on security

Ellen wrote:
> "Mike Easter"

>> I'm a big pressure cooker cooking dude/fan, but I don't do any
>> pressure cooker canning.
>>
>
> Taking the thread and wandering with it .... I got a pressure cooker
> this year and it really is the neatest thing ... have no idea why it
> took me this long to get one.

You'll find that creating recipes for your pressure cooker is great fun.
You start with following the guidelines provided by the recipes which
typically come with the cooker or in pressure cookbooks, because almost
all cooktimes are drastically reduced, so those adjustments need to be
made from your normal and previous cooking experiences.

Then you build your own recipe ideas from the 'elements' of how to cook
various vegetables or meats or whatever and adjusted for what you like.
Some things are greatly reduced in cooking time, like dried beans from
scratch, while others, like rice, aren't affected very much.  But the
'difficult' rices, like brown or wild [which is actually grass seed] are
helped a lot by the cooker.  Since I like rice a lot and like different
cooking time rices together, I have a technique for two staging my rices
in a metal container inside the cooker.  Sorta like you would cook rice
in the oven.

One of the reasons I like to build my own recipes is because I don't
like to spend a lot of time with prep or cleanup -- or with the actual
cooking for that matter.  So I design my recipes to be as painless and
lazy as possible.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin