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rexlion
Mar 24, 2016Explorer
These electric pressure cookers are much safer than the old style ones. My wife adamantly would not have a pressure cooker in the house for the first 35 years of our marriage... and then one day she asked me to buy her an Instant Pot for Christmas! She likes using it, and I like how tender the meat is.
With the old manual-style pressure cookers, the cook must monitor the pressure reading on a dial and adjust burner temperature to compensate; if the cook gets distracted and the pressure climbs, ka-pow! The Instant Pot has sensors so it monitors and adjusts itself for proper pressure, plus it has a safety relief valve that would let off pressure long before it could go pow.
With the old manual-style pressure cookers, the cook must monitor the pressure reading on a dial and adjust burner temperature to compensate; if the cook gets distracted and the pressure climbs, ka-pow! The Instant Pot has sensors so it monitors and adjusts itself for proper pressure, plus it has a safety relief valve that would let off pressure long before it could go pow.
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