Pressure Cooker 6l - Classic High Dome Pressure Cooker with Heat Resistant Locking Safety Handle, Grey

Perfect for large meals

I wanted one to cook rice and veggies and this fits the bill perfectly. I have had this for 6 months now and it works fine. Because it is a bit heavy, which it has to be if its going to steam cook for you, it takes some effort to clean. You just need to have about 250ml water inside the vessesl and allow it to cook under pressure for 25-30mins and then let it cool down for another 15 mins, then your rice, dal and vaggies are cooked to perfection. Of course you will need those extra pans to put your rice, veggies etc., but if only rice you don't need separate pan, you can directly cook in the cooker. Allow 3/4 whistles for soft white rice and dal cooking and do not remove the lid immediately after switching off the stove, it has to cool down for 20mins because it is still cooking even after you switch off for sometime.

Good and fast, but getting scratched up very easily.

This is not my first pressure cooker, however, it has many benefits compared to some others you can buy: 1. It is a lot lighter than stainless steel - this is quite significant, though of course if it is filled up to its limit the difference is obviously not as great. 2. Most pressure cooker recipe books assume a high pressure of 15 psi, a lot of the domestic cookers available that I have come across these days, only achieve 12 psi, needing about 20% additional cooking time. 3. Pressure is achieved by the old fashioned weight system, you do not have to keep an eye on coloured bands, it is either up to pressure or it isn't - simple. 4. It comes with a simple bent wire trivet - not as good as my granny used to have but it does the job and the perforated steamer with dividers is actually quite good. 5. The instruction book is also quite good and includes hints, useful info and some recipes that is enough to get you going and allow you to convert your favourite stews etc., to pressure cooking - it does far more than stews, but I found that they are good to start with. 6. The pressure regulation sytem is far less fragile than on some other inexpensive pressure cookers. 7. It is a fraction of the cost of most stainless steel cookers, and will cook at least as well if not better than most. The downsides: 1. It is aluminium which is easier to damage than steel, putting away leaving water in the base will cause pitting for instance, avoided by drying it. 2. It may stain - but this can be cleaned off. 3. It has to be hand washed. 4. There is no pressure quick release, you use the cold water method. There may be other pros & cons, but these stick out. I also have WMF stainless steel cookers which I also recommend, but are far more expensive and heavy, but the base and lid minus the handle are dishwasher safe. Both designs do the job - what more can you ask.

This was bought to replace my 89-years-old mother's smaller and heavier, 60+ years old, Prestige High Dome Pressure Cooker - a wedding present in 1949 - which finally fell apart. Although it still worked, the handle had fallen off making it unsafe to use. My mother won't be using it, but my sister and I cook our mother's meals in it ready for or pureeing and freezing, in bulk I wash, and cut up anything and everything into 1-2" cubes - meat, onions, swede, sweet potato, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, etc. and throw them all in the cooker together.... with the skin/peel still on (all but the onion),plus the stalks, as most of the goodness is in the vegetable skins. I usually fill it almost to the top with the raw food as, being mostly water, the vegetables quickly reduce down under pressure (if you're not familiar with a pressure cooker follow the instructions, as overfilling is not advised). However, I counteract that by adding liquid to less than the halfway mark, and then I add 3-4 stock cubes. More water can be added after cooking, but it's difficult to remove it if there's too much! It all takes just minutes to cook, and then it's ready for liquidising or pureeing. This is just one of many, many, ways of using a pressure cooker - baby food can be prepared in bulk in exactly the same way. If the vegetables are not being pureed, I do peel them, and cut them into smaller chunks for stews, or for partially blending toddler food. Pressure cookers are great for making rice pudding, soups, and more. I have the same model in my own home, and I even cook my dog's food in it. I was brought up with a pressure cooker, and could never be without one.

I grew up to the sound of the hissing of my mother's Prestige pressure cooker. She liked it so much that she had two! (High dome for steamed puddings (it would take 2 Christmas ones in one go) and a low dome. She cooked everything in them - from vegetables to stews to puddings to jams ... When I grew up and got married I inherited the low dome - then, as it must have been 50yrs old, it became difficult to get the parts for that model. I did without for a decade .. But when my own children 'fled the nest' and I wasn't cooking in such large amounts - and I saw this advertised - I bought it. Know what? It's as good as ever! All the veg in one pan and cooked in less than half the time and no nutrition lost, everything in half the time or less. And all the above, as my mum used to do. Like her, I do think the high dome is the better buy as obviously you can get more in there. Give it ago!

Very low quality. I would like to return this item

Having been bought one of these, as a wedding presant in 1970 and had it constantly in use since then, I decided to buy one as wedding presant for my granddaghter, what a diffrence, why is the lid so difficult to fit ? To fit it one has to press down on the lid with one had and slide the handles together. My old pan lid just slides on and locks in place. The instruction gook is rubbish compaired to the 1970 one - which has 83 pages of instruction's (10 [pages) and the rest of recipes - aql inall the Prestige in a good buy - but not as good as the 1970 version.

Ordered one and got an open package with a clearly used produkt inside. The screws on the lid were loosened before and are crooked now. Lid cannot be closed properly on the pot. What a joke.

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