And, one month later, my cook books are finally here! Unless you need pretty, shiny, pictures showing what your food will never look like in real life, I HIGHLY recommend the cook books by Lorna Sass
. They are packed full of recipes, tips, variations, a comments that will give you a good idea of how the dish will come out. I love great food photography, and I don't read many cookbooks. However, since I'm new to the pressure game, and I can't keep opening the lid to taste the dish, I thought I could use some help. These are better than the Joy of Cooking
!.
And, of course, I can't help but mention there is a Good Eats episode on cooking beef broth in a pressure cooker. But only the last half is available if you live outside the U.S.
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I have been tempted to buy one of these for years. In fact, I just got a gift of $250 and was toying between a pressure cooker and some new camera equipment (to help with my food photos). Of course, I literally just placed the camera equipment order this evening when I was surfing the web and found your post! Murphy's Law! I hope you'll be posting about your pressure cooking endeavors. I would really love to hear how it turns out. There's always hope I'll come into some more money and be able to get this later in the year!
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't recommend the kind I got. I'm still deciding whether to keep it. It was a very good deal, but if I keep it, my husband may never let me get another one. It is difficult for little me to open and I was hoping to get a quiet spring top, but I accidentally got a "jiggle-top." It also might be hard the clean under the rim of the pot. An authority on the subject recommends, "if you really intend to get into pressure cooking big-time, I'd go for a higher end cooker such as Kuhn-Rikon, WMF, or Fissler." You can get a Fagor for less money, and they seem to be getting excellent reviews. I've been eying the set I posted at the end of my post. I love the idea of the two pots with the regular top. Then I could start two things sauté-ing and add the pressure top at the appropriate time. I bought two of the pots pictured. I will at least keep one for Pesach.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the camera! I have a little Sony point-and-shoot. Everything is so focused. I would love to have a DSLR and get really shallow depth of field. But for now I'd rather put my money into my kitchen, kids, leisure. I am playing with setting up photos. You can see it in my guest post on cauliflower and some cookies I'm posting next Wednesday.