Was there a pressure cooker in your childhood home?
My parents had a big silver thing by Prestige. It came in two parts: a huge lower pan and a massive top. Both parts had a half a handle each, that when joined together formed a full handle.
On top of the lid was a nozzle where the steam blew out. On top of this went the most exotic feature of the whole apparatus, a heavy silver weight that looked like a small rod of nuclear material.
In fact the complete unit reminded me of a nuclear reactor, ready to meltdown at any minute taking out the whole street. It was a time bomb full of spuds and carrots, a veg mine!
Inside were triangular buckets, with handles, full of holes, shaped like mandarin segments. These could be stacked inside so that even more material could go critical inside.
After measuring it with a Geiger counter, my Mum would approach wearing a ginormous kitchen glove in order to remove the top weight.
Upon removal a jet of steam was released second only to Old Faithful itself. Sometimes the weight had to be put back on because the veg wasn't lifeless enough.
Pressure cooked vegetables were sadly devoid of anything. They were basically skin and water, a form of mutation: X-veg.
Were you pressure cooked as a kid?
Yes, I remember a heavy duty, heavy weight, pressure cooker in our kitchen as a kid, Woodsy. I always stayed well away from it. It looked and sounded dangerous, and unfriendly, like an unstable bomb ticking away, about to blow.
ReplyDeleteI found our trusted old toaster far easier to get along with :)
ha ha, best to have kept away from that pressure cooker Tone. Who knows what would happen if you knocked the weight off! Armageddon!
DeleteNo pressure cooker to speak of in my past,but I bought my first one about 2 months ago.They have come a long way and they are now digitally controlled and engineered for safety.All I can say is,a 3 pound roast that used to take almost 3 hours in the oven comes out of the pressure cooker in 50 minutes,tender as ever!
ReplyDeleteWow, now that's fast! Good on ya for keep up the pressure! What ya having with that roast?
DeleteThis gadget has multiple racks so you can put your potatoes and carrots on top of the roast.I added them after the roast cooked for 35 minutes,and the veggies turned out perfect.Frozen Popovers baked in the oven rounded out the meal.
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