Magefesa Practika Plus Stainless Steel 6.3-Quart Super Fast Pressure Cooker
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Brand: Magefesa
Model : 01OPPRAPL06
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Magefesa Practika Plus Stainless Steel 6.3-Quart Super Fast Pressure Cooker Feature
- Three cooking levels: Traditional slow cooking: max 6 psi Fast cooking: max 9 psi Super fast cooking: max 15 psi
- Made of 18/10 surgical stainless steel
- 4 additional safety systems: Working valve Over pressure valve Safety edge lid window Locking system
- Designed and made in Spain
Magefesa Practika Plus Stainless Steel 6.3-Quart Super Fast Pressure Cooker Overviews
Preserve vitamins and minerals that are usually lost with conventional cooking methods. Save up to 70% of your time compared with traditional cooking method in nowdays busy life. This means that you will be using less energy ( Inchecofriendly Inch) so saving more money. Reduced CO2 emissions.
Magefesa Practika Plus Stainless Steel 6.3-Quart Super Fast Pressure Cooker RelateItems
- Cooking Under Pressure (20th Anniversary Edition)
- Great Vegetarian Cooking Under Pressure
- Miss Vickie’s Big Book of Pressure Cooker Recipes
- The Pressure Cooker Gourmet: 225 Recipes for Great-Tasting, Long-Simmered Flavors in Just Minutes
- Magefesa Practika Plus Stainless Steel 3-1/3-Quart Super Fast Pressure Cooker
Magefesa Practika Plus Stainless Steel 6.3-Quart Super Fast Pressure Cooker CustomerReview
I’ve been learning to use this pressure cooker — my first — and am finding that trial and error is better than relying on the “Instructive & Warranty” manual.
The manual, the manual, the manual. While the manual will keep you from blowing yourself up — and the cooker has safety features coming out the nozzle — it doesn’t guide you to success right out of the gate.
After you put the lid on and apply heat, the manual says to turn down the heat as soon as steam starts to escape from the valve on the lid, but that’s too early. That little red thingie (which the manual calls the “Red Pressure sensor”) eventually pops up a bit, with an audible click. THEN you turn down the heat and start the timer. If you turn the heat down too low, the internal pressure will collapse, the Red Pressure sensor lowers, and you have to spend another 3 or 4 minutes getting the pressure back up before it starts to cook properly.
The manual has a list of foods (on page 3) that shouldn’t be cooked in a pressure cooker, as they can “foam, froth and sputte [sic], and clog the pressure release device.” Pay attention to this list. These foods were the problem with a lot of first-generation pressure cookers that exploded so memorably into urban folklore 35 years ago.
If you’re a first-time pressure cooker using a standard (non electric) model, Miss Vickie’s Big Book of Pressure Cooker Recipes will give you recipes and much better guidance on how to use your pressure cooker. The MissVicki website also has info on racks and trivets, which are used to lift the food a bit off the bottom of the pan so it doesn’t scorch. This Magefesa Practika Plus set did not include a rack, but these are inexpensive and can be purchased at housewares stores.
Believe me, as a technical writer I certainly share the pain about that dreadful manual. Still, it seems like a good pressure cooker, and I bet I’ll get used to using it. Eventually. And maybe Magefesa will get a clue and revise the manual to be useful to native speakers. That one easy fix could raise this pressure cooker to all-star quality.
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