New cooking pot for the kitchen!

Jonny69

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I've been meaning to buy a pressure cooker for ages for doing stews and stuff in and it doubles up as a huge cooking pot. Watch this space for some Cooking with Jonny69 posts once I've got the hang of it. Hopefully it won't explode or spray its contents all over the ceiling because I got a good old style one with weights on the top and no safety valve :D

Best thing is it fits!

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£34.99 in Argos, it's the big 6 litre one.
 
Yeah I've seen the shop in Penge for years but never gone in, I guess because it looks like a trade only shop. Don't often stop there unless I'm going in the Polish supermarket. The one in Beckenham is great for browsing though, mmm all those expensive things I never knew I needed :D

Stew is hissing away nicely in the kitchen, should be ready in about 30 minutes.
 
nice pot ,mate:)

I´m also upgrading my kitchen hardware,cause I had a lot of aluminium pans,and I read somewhere that aluminium is no good for the health in the long term...

so,2 weeks ago I put 11 aluminium pans in the bin:mad:

and I start the "upgrade" with a nice stainless steel 18/10, 6 litre pressure cooker from "Fagor" (a good Spanish brand)
it´s seem smaller because it has a convex form,and it has a nice and fast opening system and two speeds:D
44 euros in MediaMarkt

ps- first thing I cooked on it ,was an octopus-was ready and tender in 20 minutes,eheh
and please don´t make some jokes with the brand "Fagor" ,eheheh




 
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Hxc said:
If I'm rich one day I'll buy a full set of circulon pans we sell at work; they are stupidly good quality.
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I've got a circulon chef's pan and stockpot as well as a couple of anolon frying pans made by the same company.
They are expensive, but worth it. It just makes cooking so much better if you're using decent equipment.

Same with my Le Creuset too, that's actually a hand me down from my Gran and is probably 30 years old, yet it's still as good as new.
That's what you get by spending the extra on decent stuff.
 
The best thing for doing stews in is a Slow Cooker. Make it up in the morning. Dump it all in the slow cooker and let it cook all day on Medium heat, then for the last hour put it on high - LOVELY!
 
I just cooked a stew in my pressure cooker today, it was spot on, the meat was so tender it broke apart on your tongue :cool: and the best bit is there's loads left.

Pressure cookers really are great for winter food like stews, casseroles and the like.
 
Pressure cookers save energy and are a great way of making 'one pot' meals with the cheaper and tastier cuts of meat.

Circulon pans are great and to make you jealous, Haircut, we got our 2 at a car boot sale and they cost us £2 each.

We have recently bought a small induction hob and it's great. It's almost like magic as it doesn't heat up, so the room stays cool and it's totally portable, so you just plug it in anywhere and away you go. I would love a whole stove top like this.
 
OMG!! Memories of my mum buying the new fangled Prestige Pressure cooker when they first came out(showing my age now).

She loved blanching veg to put in the freezer with it. Heard her scream from the kitchen one day and I ran in to find she had knocked the weight off the top of it and painted the ceiling with beetroot juice.:D Those were the days!
 
Netby, I thought long and hard about the aluminium pan thing but couldn't resist the chance of genuine madness one day.

Nitefly, it was surprisingly easy to clean actually. Pleasant surprise.

Now I've got to figure out where to put a gallon of leftover stew. Logistics problem with Tupperware and freezer space :D

Edit: we've got Anolon non-stick pans which were very expensive and if I'm 100% honest they were great at first but they haven't lasted as well as my old Tefals.
 
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