Hi

I am looking for an electric pressure cooker.
Have any of you come across such a thing for sale in the UK?
They exist in the USA but I cant find anyone who will export one to me
in here in the UK.

Background
Basically I am looking for the fastest possible way of cooking my
lunch
without using a microwave oven. I have noticed that water in my
electric
hob boils about 5 times slower than does my kettle. So I figure an
electric
pressure cooker (with element built in) would cook very much faster
(and be better for the environment due to less wasted heat) than would
a passive tradition pressure cooker.

Conceivably I might even use the thing as a SLOW cooker too, whereby
I could set it running on slow when I leave for work and come back and
find my lunch ready.

- Any thoughts

"ship" gmail.com> wrote in message
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ship gmail.com> wrote:

Be aware that not a few people in the know consider electric pressure
cookers to be inferior. See, for example,
<http://missvickie.com/library/electric.html> and
<http://fastcooking.ca/pressure_cookers/electric_electronic_programmable
_pressure_cookers.php>.

The only real advantage of electric/electronic pressure cookers I can
think of, is electronic thermostat, which is bound to be more precise
and easier to set up than regulating the pressure by changing the
temperature of the stove burner. However, you forgo the quick-release
option, among some other things, which, to me at least, is more
important by far.

Victor

Victor Sack wrote:

I had a quick release feature on my Cuisinart pressure cooker. I didn't
think much of it. That cooker was stainless and everything stuck to the
bottom. When I lost it in a wreck I replaced it with a cheapie aluminum
one and I'm much happier with the cheap model. Made DH and I some stew
for dinner in it tonight.

ship wrote:

In article <1ic9wq1.1txex4x1j21162N%%azazello@koroviev.de>,
azazello@koroviev.de (Victor Sack) wrote:

I don't have an electric pressure cooker, Bubba Vic

In article <47b39b65$0$5826$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>,
Janet Wilder yahoo.com> wrote:

Did you use the meat rack in your cooker, Janet? When I cook meat for
stew, I always use the rack for just that reason.

Good question. Not sure yet. Rice? Potatoes? Stews? Root crops?
Even if it can save 3 or 4 minutes of overall cooking time that would
be worth having

Ship

On Feb 13, 9:33 pm, "Michael \"Dog3\"" wrote:

On Feb 13, 10:55 pm, azaze...@koroviev.de (Victor Sack) wrote: