The Test Kitchen: Tips for Using a Pressure Cooker - Gourmet Magazine

[andysgrl33]

@zzzzzzsnooze2nd You can't deep fry in a pressure cooker.

[zZZzzzSnooze2nd]

How can you deep fry chicken or fries in there, No video about that?

[brydenshiells]

Missing beans - absolutely stupid not to mention the quantity of beans and when to add them.... thanks for commenting on the one cup quantity.... Bryden

[HeavenNNature]

They never showed THE BEANS being placed into the pot. If you look at the video, you can see the DRY BEANS sitting in a one cup measure to the right of the pressure cooker on the stovetop. Once she talks about giving it another stir, you can see the white beans floating around in the boiling liquid. They somehow cut that out of the video. A big omission, since it's "Lamb Shanks with White Beans."

[aseglkj]

0:58 "I'm going to sautee my vag"

LOLWUT?

[raficsulejmanovic]

I am just worried all the good stuff in the veggies are gone. Am I wrong?

[HeavenNNature]

@raficsulejmanovic

The big deal about pressure cookers is that they retain the nutrients and flavors. I just made a porcini mushroom risotto in my pressure cooker in 15 minutes, and the flavors were so enhanced and the risotto was so creamy, it was amazing. I could taste the full impact of the porcini's throughout. Nothing was "boiled out" like when you are boiling and stirring for an hour!

[Soldier957]

Could you do fresh white beans in there with the other ingredients or are they on another cook time?

[generatrix999]

The reason stuff burn (on the bottom) in a pressure cooker is b/c the heat is too damn high, that's the only reason. Lower the heat unless you want to fast steam with just water at the bottom.

I never pressure cook with more than medium heat, otherwise the bottom burns/sticks.

[silentfades]

Ruth Reichl is so condescending she needs to be cooked in a pressure cooker

[carlosmurphy4u]

My God woman, you knew you were guna be doing this vid and you went and stuck your head in a blender??? Nice hair...

[MstrMnd420]

How do you tell how long your suppose to cook foods in the cooker for?

[twoblink]

@MstrMnd420 My pressure cooker is a Kuhn Rikon, and it has a 2 bar system. At 1 bar is the lower setting and 2 bars is the higher (pressure) setting. My rule of thumb is 15 minutes @ 2 bars in pressure cooker = 1 hour in a non-pressure cooker (so 4x faster). So if the recipe called for 4 hours of cooking time, then only need to cook it for an hour in the pressure cooker.

[helenmarella]

Where did the beans come from?

[norxcontacts]

That's a very white kitchen.

[TheVittleVlog]

Sounds great!

[xshadw]

lol her face is funny

[shadyalien]

I love the way she said "mmm" right after she opened the pot.

[gxtoast]

Great video promoting pressure cookers. Can you advise what size the cooker is and why you chose that size?

I am trying to decide between a 6L and 8L cooker.

[FlashOhJoy]

You made this look so Good...

I had to make this myself, It was delicious! Please show us more pressure cooker videos.

[brendasim72]

maybe you can show us more on pressure cooker

[gracelabar]

She makes it seem as if the cooker is supposed to steam continually throughout the cooking time. Not so. Once that stream of steady steam appears, the heat is reduced to maintain pressure to just a "puff" of steam every 10 seconds. Keeping a steady stream of steam can cause the cooker to go dry, and burn the food, before the cooking time is up. I'm glad magazines like Gourmet are finally giving pressure cookers some recognition, but they should teach proper procedure too.

[gracelabar]

"Food cooked in pressure cookers doesn't look or taste good..."? You're painting with a very broad brush here. Obviously you have never had anything prepared properly by someone who knows how. Right here on Youtube there are videos of beautiful dishes done right.

In addition, there are several excellent pressure cooker cookbooks available today. My personal favorite is "Miss Vickie's Big Book of Pressure Cooker Recipes." Do your homework & stop bashing PC's out of ignorance.

[mamaduck81]

That looked delicious!

[ck360]

The whole point of a pressure cooker is letting the food cook with the lid on. Otherwise what's the point?

[gracelabar]

The prep work you see being done here, browning the meat, sweating the vegetables, and stirring all together before putting on the lid, is vital to getting the most flavor out of all the ingredients. The actual cooking was done under pressure with the lid on.

[TheVQ]

Pressure cookers rock. There's no reason to be afraid of the new ones. Fast food never tasted so good and fresh.

[RJBURG]

If you cooking for people should have a hair net.