Why would anyone want a pressure cooker?
It's minus a zillion degrees outside. Let's talk comfort and health foods. I mentioned that QVC had a PC on sale, Sunday. I have used stovetop and electric pressure cookers for many moons. Yes, I had ...
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Desert Captain wrote:JT wrote:
While I agree that a pressure cooker can be a useful tool, this statement is cringe-worthy:
"Safety - If you choose to cook underway there is no safer method. Should a bump or sharp turn send it off the stove you simply pick it up and replace it on the stove top."
Seriously? It's *safe* to go down the road with a heavy pot on a lighted stove burner?? The potential outcomes of this scenario are not something I would like to even think about. :E
I made that comment, permit me to explain it. I started pressure cooking when I took my sailboat to Mexico for 7 months. One of the reasons I got one was to safely cook while underway at sea. Most cruising sailors get them for this very reason.
I would never even consider cooking in a moving RV but some folks do, it is mentioned from time to time on this Forum. My point was, while not recommending it, if you choose to cook while the RV is in motion the ONLY way to do so safely would be to use a PC. :C
Sorta hard to equate "driving" a sailboat with driving an RV. Stability on a boat is mostly weather/sea dictated and therefore predictable- certainly one wouldn't put a pressure cooker on a stove in the middle of a hurricane, for example.
But an RV goin' down a freeway will encounter Storm Conditions any time the driver in front of it slams on the brakes or worse.
Most of the "cooking while underway" posts I've read here have to do with electric crockpots, usually placed someplace where they're unlikely to do any flying around, like in a sink. An electric pressure cooker could be used the same way I s'pose, but a stovetop model?
A red hot missile sitting on a moving RV's lit gas burner untethered and presumably unattended sounds like a bad idea to me, too.
