electric pressure cooker

**sinopa27** · 11-07-2011, 09:53 PM

I ordered an Electric pressure cooker. Does anyone have one? Any ideas of what is great to cook in one? I have wanted one for a few years then ran into a good deal yesterday and have forgotten what I was going to cook in it.
*that should have been a hint that I don't need it*

**Josephhgoins** · 11-08-2011, 06:32 AM

I have one and love mine!

I cook rice in mine all the time, tastes just like what you get and teh chinease food places. Its also great for dried beans. I have a pressure cooked fried chicken recipe on here that I love and ribs can't be beat in it.

**greekislandgirl** · 11-08-2011, 10:30 AM

I don't have an electric one, mine just sits on top of the burner and uses the heat from the stove. But you can cook dried beans, rice, dried peas (like split peas), potatoes/carrots and other root vegetables, meat, and more. I am always finding new things to do with mine.

I have found though that the best part of having the pressure cooker is that I no longer felt like I could only cook certain things if I had time to do so. Now that I can make dried beans in 5 minutes or a soup that otherwise would have taken 3 hours is done in 10 minutes... I no longer really think about time. I just make what I want, whenever I want, and it almost never takes me more than 10-12 minutes.

**sinopa27** · 11-22-2011, 01:37 AM

Originally Posted by Josephhgoins

I have one and love mine!

I cook rice in mine all the time, tastes just like what you get and teh chinease food places. Its also great for dried beans. I have a pressure cooked fried chicken recipe on here that I love and ribs can't be beat in it.

I will look for your pressure cooked fried chicken recipe. How do I cook the ribs?

**Josephhgoins** · 11-22-2011, 07:43 AM

Originally Posted by sinopa27

I will look for your pressure cooked fried chicken recipe. How do I cook the ribs?

I will find the recipe and post it for you this weekend.

**Spirit Deer** · 11-22-2011, 02:16 PM

Pressure cooker fried chicken needs a special cooker. It's unsafe to make it in a regular pressure cooker.

I passed up a beautiful electric pressure cooker yesterday at GW for $15. It was hard to leave it there! But I have two stovetop versions so couldn't see any real advantage over what I have, and I don't have room for another one. I also have one of the electronic gee-whiz ones and a pressure canner, so figured I was covered. It'll be a great deal for someone though. But I'm still a little bummed over it.

**Josephhgoins** · 11-22-2011, 02:21 PM

[QUOTE=Spirit Deer;1582380]Pressure cooker fried chicken needs a special cooker. It's unsafe to make it in a regular pressure cooker.
QUOTE]

Didn't we go through this already? It's deep Fried chicken that you need the special deep fryer for, not fried chicken.

**Spirit Deer** · 11-22-2011, 03:09 PM

Okay, my mistake.

**sinopa27** · 11-30-2011, 07:58 AM

Originally Posted by Josephhgoins

I will find the recipe and post it for you this weekend.

were you able to post the recipe for the ribs?

**sinopa27** · 04-15-2012, 02:50 AM

i love the electric pressure cooker still. It is a normal part of my cooking. I just wish I had a chart of pressure timing. So far I have been guessing and have been successful.

**Spirit Deer** · 04-15-2012, 09:20 AM

Check your library for books about pressure cooking.

Is this the type of chart you're looking for? (Click links for various types of foods.)
The ULTIMATE Pressure Cooker Cooking Time Chart