Hawkins Stainless Steel Pressure Cooker

by Hawkins

Product Features

• Shielded safety valve
• Long lasting gasket
• New improved projection welded handle bracket
• Pressure locked safety lid
• Cookbook included

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 14 x 9 x 6 inches ; 5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002MPQH8K
• Item model number: B25
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #66,898 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

Size: 2 Litre

This is a stainless steel 2.0 litre pressure cooker with a whistling pressure cooker

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have, December 22, 2007

By 

M. Kaur - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hawkins Stainless Steel 5.0 Litre Pressure Cooker (Kitchen)

Indian cooking becomes ridiculously easy with a pressure cooker - especially if you are planning on cooking lentils or beans. Not only do you save time, you also retain nutrients which can otherwise be destroyed when exposed to high heat for long periods of time.

Safety is virtually guaranteed with Hawkins' foolproof design - if the lid is not closed properly, the cooker just won't attain full pressure and so won't become dangerous; if there is even a little pressure remaining, the lid just won't be forced open. And if - this happened to me once - you put in too little water by mistake and the cooker boils dry, you are still okay thanks to a safety valve ingeniously placed just under the bar on the lid - so that when it opens up, the heat gets deflected away from you.

I have only used aluminum cookers, but the stainless steel ones are great too - if a little more expensive. Worth it if you want to avoid stains that can sometimes be a problem with aluminum cookers. I have three cookers in 2, 3.5 and 4.5 litre sizes. 2L is ideal if you're living alone and the 3.5 is just right for a two person family. I use the 4.5 when I cook for guests. I will still buy the 5L because it really is the most convenient size for an average family.

My only grouse with buying these cookers online is that you don't get accessories or replacement parts as easily as you can in Indian stores. After I blew out the safety valve in my 2L, I'm waiting for my next trip to India to get the lid fixed. Also, the 5L (and above) sizes become much more useful when you can use them with accessories like inserts - for multilevel cooking inside the cooker (cook two dishes in one go) and steamers - (for rice cakes etc.)

Bottom line - if you are planning on cooking Indian dishes, invest in a pressure cooker. Its versatile enough to cook pulses, vegetables and meats and will last you a lifetime!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Indian whistling pressure cooker is a kitchen champ, August 18, 2007

By 

Samantha Lewis (Monterey, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hawkins Stainless Steel 5.0 Litre Pressure Cooker (Kitchen)

I absolutely love my Hawkins pressure cooker.

The construction is top notch, a well engineered design that has the oval top lid actually under the top lip of the pot, sealing like the door of an airplane. It is impossible to open this cooker while still pressurized, making it a very safe cooker, in addition, as the lid doesn't twist on, like almost all other pressure cooker designs, the gasket isn't subjected to wear and it lasts a lot longer.

The bottom of the pot is a sandwich of stainless steel surrounding a thick aluminium insert for even heat distribution, a must if you're going to be frying before cooking under pressure. Oh yes, and this is one of the famous Indian whistling cookers. Once you get the measure of your cooktop and where to turn the heat down to after full pressure is built, the regular whistle steam release makes a very useful timer. You'll find many recipes from India using this timing method. A very fine cooker indeed, I highly recommend it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Use it almost every day, July 19, 2011

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A Kaysville Reader - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Hawkins Stainless Steel 5.0 Litre Pressure Cooker (Kitchen)

It took a little time to get used to using this pressure cooker because my mother made sure to scare the dickens out of me when I was little. Now this is required in my kitchen almost daily since my husband is from India. We used to have all aluminum pressure cookers but I've been worried about aluminum getting in our food so when the old one needed replacing about a year ago I got this one. Sometimes if the lid isn't on exactly right a little steam will leak from the seal (aluminum cookers didn't have this problem) so I reposition the lid and it usually works the second time. It's great for cooking any kind of beans, rice, vegetables, chicken etc. that you would usually have to boil. One or two whistles for most veggies and chicken, twenty minutes or so for beans and dal (lentils). Much faster than boiling!

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