Customer Reviews

The Official Presto Pressure Cooker Cookbook

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I was happy to fine that the recepies in the book are easy to use and healthful.
This is a great book for getting me back to cooking with a pressure cooker the way my mother did. The first try was stewed chicken and it was delicious.

I was hoping for more basic information on pressure cooking. Aside from a brief history, a couple paragraphs of simple "how-to's" and a few Q & A's, there is precious little information to help the novice with using this device. Unless you are totally familiar with how to use a pressure cooker, and simply want to add to your recipe book collection, do not get this book. For complete pressure cooker instruction, put your money toward "Pressure Cookers for Dummies"...a much more comprehensive tutorial written in easy to understand language, which makes no assumptions at all regarding the reader's level of knowledge. Pressure Cookers for Dummies helps to eliminate the "trial by error" learning curve. As an added bonus, "Pressure Cookers for Dummies" also has great recipes.

UPDATE: Now that Miss Vickie's Big Book of Pressure Cooking has come out, I recommend that as well. If you can afford only one, Miss Vickie's would be the better choice.

This cookbook is really wonderful with it's colored pictures and recipes. Only drawback is that it is mostly for the 6 qt cooker and I wanted to get recipes for the 4 qt. I am a person who can't make changes and need to have precise instruction and that is why I odered this book. They should have printed both. Many times I would find a recipe I liked and it would say "only for the 6 qt".
If you have a 6 qt cooker this book is a must have.

Recipes are NOT family friendly.
Eg, who wants to eat "rabbit with stewed prunes??"
I was very disappoionted in the book, and I do not recommend it, especially if you are cooking for children/teens.

I needed to re-learn how to use a 6 qt pressure cooker that had been setting on my shelf for 20 years! Good book for this; recipes good, as well.

I find this some what of a middle of the road cookbook. It helps, I am not sure I would buy it again.

Fancy recipes that maybe make a pressure cooker more work rather then less.

I'm enjoying this book. It is most helpful, and it arrived promptly in perfect shape. I loved the ratatouille recipe and can't wait to try some others!

A good basic cookbook for the beginer as well as the skilled pressure cooker cook. Simple recipes and ingredients to make cooking this way a real pleasure.

I HAD PURCHASED A PRESTO PRESSURE COOKER AT AN ESTATE SALE, BUT IT DIDN'T HAVE ANY DIRECTIONS. I WAS GLAD TO FIND THIS BOOK SINCE I'D NEVER USED A PRESSURE COOKER BEFORE. THE BOOK IS FAIRLY EASY TO FOLLOW. THE RECIPES ALSO PROVIDE NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION, SUCH AS CALORIC COUNT AND SODIUM.

The book arrived when promised in very good condition, better condition than I thought a used book would be