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Offline Petrolhead360

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Re: Pressure cookers
« Reply #30 on: January 16, 2013, 05:24 AM »
Hi unclefrank,
What was the outcome to your pressure cooker purchase?

Just feel the need to get one myself and am currently looking at the Prestige 7L model

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Re: Pressure cookers
« Reply #31 on: January 16, 2013, 07:39 AM »
The Tower 11253 7 l is a popular model. You can get it online for around

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Re: Pressure cookers
« Reply #32 on: January 16, 2013, 09:24 AM »
While obviously a business pushing the products it sells, I found that this site has some useful general info re the importance of high vs low pressure, aluminium vs stainless, etc: http://fastcooking.ca/pressure_cookers/stainless_steel_pressure_cookers.php

Yes, they would say that as those are the models they specialise in, but from my general (non commercial) internet based research, the consensus does seem to be that stainless is preferred to aluminium, and for the best performance you should look for a model that operates at 15psi.

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Re: Pressure cookers
« Reply #33 on: January 16, 2013, 10:12 AM »
While obviously a business pushing the products it sells, I found that this site has some useful general info re the importance of high vs low pressure, aluminium vs stainless, etc: http://fastcooking.ca/pressure_cookers/stainless_steel_pressure_cookers.php

Yes, they would say that as those are the models they specialise in, but from my general (non commercial) internet based research, the consensus does seem to be that stainless is preferred to aluminium, and for the best performance you should look for a model that operates at 15psi.

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The Pressure Cooker   Cooking Temperature
0 pounds (psi)           100

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Re: Pressure cookers
« Reply #34 on: January 16, 2013, 12:48 PM »
Hi unclefrank,
What was the outcome to your pressure cooker purchase?

Just feel the need to get one myself and am currently looking at the Prestige 7L model

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Re: Pressure cookers
« Reply #35 on: January 16, 2013, 02:58 PM »
Thanks to all for the replies/info.

I just shot down to Aldi. They have a stack of the Stainless steel 5L Pressure Cooker

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« Reply #36 on: January 16, 2013, 03:18 PM »
Thanks to all for the replies/info.

I just shot down to Aldi. They have a stack of the Stainless steel 5L Pressure Cooker

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Re: Pressure cookers
« Reply #37 on: January 16, 2013, 05:48 PM »

Cannot for the life of me see a 7l one at Tesco though.  Biggest is 6l and not at

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« Reply #38 on: January 16, 2013, 07:47 PM »

Cannot for the life of me see a 7l one at Tesco though.  Biggest is 6l and not at

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Re: Pressure cookers
« Reply #39 on: January 16, 2013, 09:02 PM »
All sorted.
I picked up the Tower 7L psi 11.5.
Let's see how I get on with it.

Thanks again for the info

 

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