Please tell me who has been using this pressure cooker for a long time - how does the bowl behave? Doesn't it scratch or burn? Does the valve not fly out? Generally comfortable, not scary?
For a year and a half it works like a watch. Small swelling of the inner lining appears on the bowl, but does not rust. No valves came out from anywhere. The fastening on the lid, which attaches the shiny silver handle to the body of the lid itself, has collapsed, "attached" with a wire - it's ugly, but I'm simply not ready to part with your favorite unit.
Good day everyone! Recently, I am the happy owner of the REDMOND RMC-M4504 multicooker-pressure cooker (my mother gave it to me on the D.R.). And I like everything very much ... But I can’t understand one important point. In all the recipes from the book (second courses, biscuits, etc.) it is not indicated that you need to add water (and, logically, it is not needed there). However, in the instructions for the multicooker (page 22 "Basic rules for cooking in pressure cooker mode") it is written in black and white: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO COOK IN A PAN WITHOUT WATER OR ANY OTHER LIQUID - THIS COULD SERIOUSLY DAMAGE IT. The volume of liquid must be at least 2 measuring cups. What does it mean???! In all recipes for the pressure cooker (in the valve closed mode), nothing is indicated about water. Please tell someone how you cook and how to assess this contradiction? Thanks in advance!
I can only congratulate you on your valuable assistant! Regarding the need for water in the pressure cooker - it is necessary to create pressure under the lid. Without liquid, Radichka cannot gain pressure. Therefore, initially, liquid is necessarily added to dry products. Yes, the original instructions indicated the required amount of water - half a cartoon cup (90 grams).
I'm ready to share a few of my favorite recipes. I say right away - I cook everything in a single position of the SUP and with the valve in the SEAL position. "
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pickled fish... Any dry sea fish (navaga, cod and the same row), peel, cut into portions. Peel a large amount of onions and carrots (about the same amount of both), I cut with a blender. Although you can grated carrots, cut the onions coarsely, down to half rings - as you like. Mix chopped vegetables in a separate container.
We put a layer of vegetables on the bottom of the bowl, there is a plump fish on them, a layer of vegetables on top, fish again, vegetables should always be on top. You can add tomato paste, vegetable oil for flavor. Salt, you can add soy sauce, black pepper, add a little water (to generate steam, so that it gets to the bottom) and I put it under pressure for 25 minutes. As a result, in my family there is a hunt for the ridges in fish - they chew well, the bones become soft. It can be either cold or hot.
Steamed pork - a piece of chop or ribs with a large meat layer, cut into separate strips along the skin no thicker than 7 cm, along the length of the bowl. At the bottom of the bowl I install a grate (though not the standard one, but a little higher - I have one), pour water to generate steam, salt the meat, coat it with crushed garlic, put it skin side up, put on the lid, for half an hour under pressure. After it is cooked, we take it out, put it on a plate with KVEHU SKIN, in this place you can add garlic, sprinkle it with pepper, and send it to the refrigerator. Ready for use in a few hours.
Cottage cheese casserole - pour 70-100 grams of semolina into a separate container, fill with kefir, stir, and set aside for the semolina to swell.
Pour raisins into a mug, pour boiling water and set aside.
We break 3 eggs into the main container, add 100-150 grams of granulated sugar, vanillin there, mix without fanaticism, but so that the eggs "scatter" (I'm happy), add 400-500 grams of cottage cheese of any fat content there and mix also without fanaticism. Small lumps of cottage cheese will still disappear when baking.
Now pour the semolina with kefir into the "main container" with the curd mass, drain the raisins (someone dries and rolls them in flour so that they do not sink to the bottom), also add to the mass, mix again.
I add a little butter to the bowl for taste, pour out the mass, turn it on for 55 minutes under pressure.
You need to get used to getting the finished product. I take out the bowl, put it on the windowsill so that the casserole settles a little. Next, I cover it with a wide board, and quickly overturn the casserole so that it does not deform when it is gently tilted. Good both hot and cold.
Vegetable sote - you need a couple of tomatoes, a couple of sweet peppers, eggplant (one is enough, but without it it is not so tasty), carrots, onions - I rub it all with a blender and put it in a bowl. I chop the zucchini into cubes (if the skin is thick, then remove it), I supplement the bowl with shredded cabbage. Delicious both cold and hot.
If you add minced meat to the sauté when laying it down, especially if it is generous, 800 grams - the men in the house will gently look into the eyes in anticipation of a new portion. Delicious, nutritious, fast. I set the time for the most cooked product - meat. It's 20 minutes.
Chicken thighs / legs with mushrooms in sour cream / yogurt We take chicken thighs, legs, send them to the bowl, add frozen mushrooms or largely chopped mushrooms there, you can add onions, salt, sprinkle with herbs, pour out a can of sour cream (or a couple of cans of yogurt - whoever is on a diet), and run for 20 minutes under pressure ...
Stew - I put it in the night. Down a little water, a lot of meat, peas, a couple of leaves of lavrushka, salt, 2 hours under pressure, after which it languishes until the morning on the heating function. Then, if you want to put it in the jars, I will put it in plastic bags, then in small plastic rectangular trays (for one serving), and in the freezer.
Didn't you cook dried fruit compote? Recommend.
For lovers of vegetable salads and vinaigrettes: a grate is placed at the bottom of the bowl, I add a glass of water, I put unpeeled beets down on the grate, next to carrots, potatoes on top. 25 minutes under pressure (if the beets are very large - half an hour). Cool, clean.
By the way, eggs for salads are also perfectly cooked in a pressure cooker on a wire rack for a couple, 5 minutes.