since this is now a cooking site has anybody tried an electric pressure cooker?

Partner has been out of town so I get to watch whatever I want at work.( Yes, I know it's a tough job.) Instead of a steady diet of pawn stars and car auctions I caught an infomercial touting the pressure cooker. I figure some of you have tried it already. I know that when they say chicken wings in 10 minutes that says 10 minutes cooking time. They neglect the 20-30 minutes it takes to pressurize and the 20-30 it takes to cool off so 10 minutes is more like an hour and a half. But how does it taste???

Like chicken. Lol

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Originally Posted by satdoc1

Like chicken. Lol

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Good one!!! Lol

Thanks feeshrman.

To answer your question....I don't know, sounds like a good idea. KFC is pressure cooked, so I'd say it's worth a try. Get one and let us know.

my understanding is KFC is pressure cooked and then battered and fried a little to brown it and make a crust and to make it taste like its fried. dunno for sure tho

got one . now for a 40 minute pot roast

I've had one for 2 years and never tried it. Read a bunch about that frying chicken in a pressure cooker. Using oil is a big no,no in them. Expands so much it can cause them to blow up. KFC friers are special built high pressure cookers. All the frying is done inside the pressure fryer.

Had on blow up on me a few years ago. Thought I'd never get the kitchen clean.

I did maintenance work at Jack Pirtle's chicken restaurants. I could go into the history of Pirtle's and KFC.
Jack designed his pressure cookers, could cook 12 chickens at once. 12 lbs. pressure is what they like to cook at. Henny Penny cookers were the first brand on the market. They could cook 8 chickens at a time, at 15 lbs. pressure.
Pirtle's and KFC original are pressure cooked.

Debbie bought one of those new pressure cookers. Like you said, the down side is the extra time it takes to prep it.

Interesting you fellas brought this up. I was looking at this a couple of days ago. It's very pricey, but would be nice putting fresh produce away from the garden:

Ball® FreshTECH Automatic Home Canning System

Still not sure, we'll see.

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Interesting you fellas brought this up. I was looking at this a couple of days ago. It's very pricey, but would be nice putting fresh produce away from the garden:

Ball® FreshTECH Automatic Home Canning System

Still not sure, we'll see.

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The one I have is pretty much like that except it dosnt have the recipes pre programmed. Everything is automatic. Plug it in put in the amount of water, load it set timer and forget. Just haven't tried it yet to see how it works. Got a couple of different safety's on it for dummies like me. Was around 75.00 when wife and daughter bought it for me.

well, my 40 minute pot roast took about 2 hours since I had to run a bit of water through it before cooking. . Tasty and tender but I overcooked the onions and they while tasting fine were too limp. Carrots and taters were fine after 15 minutes. needs a tad more room. Only had room for 4 pound roast, 8 new potatoes, 4 carrots , a couple of stalks of celery and 3 onions. Came out better than I expected. Now when I can save up enough for a down payment on another roast things will go smoother.

where are the pics