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Beginners Guide => Hints, Tips, Methods and so on.. => Cooking Equipment => Topic started by: toddk63 on May 05, 2014, 02:05 PM
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I have recently discovered that a pressure cooker is an excellent way to to cook lentils. Some of the Indian dal recipes I have say sumat like "Cook for 3 whistles". So what the heck is a whistle? The traditional Indian pressure cooker is of a different design than we use here in the U.S. or in Europe. Western cookers rely on a constant venting of steam and a constant pressure, whereas the Indian counterpart builds up pressure and vents it off in one dramatic whistle every few minutes. Here is what I found out to convert the recipes to the style of cooker that I use.
http://missvickie.com/library/whistling.htm (http://missvickie.com/library/whistling.htm)
The formatting is buggered at the end of this article. A clean .doc of it is attached.
Bottom line, here is my conversion:
From article, 1 whistle equals about 3 minutes. But first whistle does not count. Start the count after 1st whistles. So if a recipe says "3 whistles". That would 12 minutes (3 + 3x3) = 12. Start counting when rocker starts to rock.
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See http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php/topic,8447.msg74626.html#msg74626 (http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php/topic,8447.msg74626.html#msg74626)