Topic: Whistling Pressure Cooker

[toddk63]

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

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. 

[Peripatetic Phil]

See http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php/topic,8447.msg74626.html#msg74626