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Express Cooking: Make Healthy Meals Fast in Today's Quiet, Safe Pressure Cookers

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I love pressure cooking and I have six cookers: an electric, 2 stovetops, a pressure fryer, a microwave cooker and a 21-quart pressure canner. You can't beat the cooking time and the results are both delicious and nutritious.
Express Cooking addresses the cooking questions of people buying the new electric models (although only 4 and 6 quart models are considered)as well as those of us who still like our stovetop cookers. The authors discuss the different models and types, operating instructions and safety considerations. They do attempt to allay the fears of those who have heard those 'horror stories' about exploding pressure cookers. Modern models have several safety features that preclude those types of disasters. I would note however, that there is a popular recipe being circulated for cooking chicken a la KFC by bringing oil up to 400 degrees in the pressure cooker, placing chicken pieces in the oil and bringing the cooker up to pressure and cooking for several minutes. THIS SHOULD NEVER BE ATTEMPTED IN A PRESSURE COOKER!!! Specially designed pressure fryers can do this safely, but trying this in a home unit is very dangerous.
That warning aside, Express Cooking will help you to produce some delightful meals. I never considered cooking turkey in a pressure cooker until I read the recipe for Roast Turkey with Gravy. Now you can have a 5-6lb. turkey breast cooked in less than an hour with a gravy that will please everyone. Being a lover of poultry, I also count the recipes for Chicken Cacciatore and Chicken Paprikash as 'keepers'. Other sections include making delicious stock(s), meat, seafood, veggies(with a complete time guide for specific vegetables), Grains, Beans, Sauces and of course, desserts. There is a recipe here for Eggnog Cheesecake and that alone is worth the price of the book.
Also included is a listing of the major manufacturers and how to contact them. It can be very frustrating to purchase a pressure cooker and not be able to find a replacement gasket when the time arises.
Pressure cooking has undergone a renewed interest because it is quick and easy. It is also nutritious and safe! This book is a well-written reference and the food is great too!!

I bought this book last week and have tried two recipes so far. Okay not a lot, but enought to say it lives up to its' name. The Sante Fe Chicken soup was wonderful, I love chipote peppers, it gave this chicken soup a nice smokey taste. I also love tortilla soup, toasting sliced tortillas as a topping for the chicken soup reminded me fondly of my favorite tortilla soups. I made the Chicken and Rice today, again wonderful flavor -- from start to table in about 45 minutes. As I thoroughly enjoy my pressure cooker, I was looking for exactly what this book delivers -- healthy recipes, thoughtfully low in fat, easy to follow, delightfully seasoned, and fast. This one I'll keep close at hand.

Great book for people on the go, that are trying to cut back on fast-food full of fat. The new pressure cookers are safe and it's amazing how fast you can have a meal ready. This book is packed full of really good recipes our family loved. It makes cooking a pleasure...

I wanted more recipes after purchasing a pressure cooker for myself. I saw this cookbook at my local library and found tons of great recipes that were so easy to make. So, I got on Amazon and found it! I love it!

I'm new to using a pressure cooker and have been looking for intersting recipies. I'm really disppointed in this book. It doesn't have any good basic recipies. Most of the recipies are not anything that I am interested in. Who cooks with red wine and figs, anyway???

I just bought this book, Express Cooking,as I also bought Salton/Maxim/Farberware Electric Programable Pressure Cooker, and needed more recipes than the included booklet listed. In your book, you say, with a great many recipes, "Reduce the heat to stabilize the pressure and cook for --- min." Does this actually apply to my pressure cooker? Also, you say, "Remove the pressue cooker from the heat, ......". In order to do that, I would have to turn the cooker off. I have used manual older jiggle top cookers & can understand the instructions applying to that. Please do answer my e-mail. I cannot get your web-site to open. I like this book a lot, it is just sort of confusing when using it with my cooker. Thanks for your help.