Pressure cooker recipes

whistler · March 12, 2010

You CAN use a regular pressure cooker on a ceramic stove (I do, anyway). However, you MUST watch the heat setting you use. Start at medium heat or lower - just use enough to get the thing shooshing, and then turn it down some. Use too much heat, you get an exploded pot and burns all over your back like my aunt did. NOT good.

And as always, make sure your lid is in good working order. No cracks in the handle area, etc. I just had to buy a new pressure cooker because somehow my handle cracked near the shoosher, and it spit instead of shooshed. This happened before I bought the new stove - it had been several months since I used it, an I was not happy to have the stuffed cabbage in the pot and cooking only to find that I had to turn it off, call my sister and borrow hers. That delayed the yummy stuffed cabbage by at least 2 hours!!

By the way, did you know that there are 3 types of stuffed cabbage?
Really Good, Really Bad, and On the Ceiling!

March 12, 2010	#31
whistler Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: PA Posts: 100	You CAN use a regular pressure cooker on a ceramic stove (I do, anyway). However, you MUST watch the heat setting you use. Start at medium heat or lower - just use enough to get the thing shooshing, and then turn it down some. Use too much heat, you get an exploded pot and burns all over your back like my aunt did. NOT good. And as always, make sure your lid is in good working order. No cracks in the handle area, etc. I just had to buy a new pressure cooker because somehow my handle cracked near the shoosher, and it spit instead of shooshed. This happened before I bought the new stove - it had been several months since I used it, an I was not happy to have the stuffed cabbage in the pot and cooking only to find that I had to turn it off, call my sister and borrow hers. That delayed the yummy stuffed cabbage by at least 2 hours!! By the way, did you know that there are 3 types of stuffed cabbage? Really Good, Really Bad, and On the Ceiling!