Pressure Cooker

[Sheilbh]

Anyone any experience using them?

How easy to avoid explosions?

[Zanza]

Yes.

Very.

[Admiral Yi]

No.

Impossible.

[Sheilbh]

Tips?

Worth getting?

[derspiess]

Great.  Just great.  HI NSA!!!

[Barrister]

I won one in a curling bonspiel several years ago.

I've always wanted to use it, but never have. I'll watch this thread with interest though.

[Ed Anger]

Pot roasts and beef stew.

[Admiral Yi]

I get the impression the pressure cooker has been replaced by the Slo Cooker.

[Sheilbh]

I get the impression the pressure cooker has been replaced by the Slo Cooker.

I hate slow cookers.

[Admiral Yi]

How can you possibly hate slow cookers? 

[sbr]

How can you possibly hate slow cookers? 

Too slow.

[Barrister]

I get the impression the pressure cooker has been replaced by the Slo Cooker.

How can one replace the other?  They have totally different purposes (that is one cooks really slowly, and other cooks really fast)?

[Caliga]

I get the impression the pressure cooker has been replaced by the Slo Cooker.

Nope.  I use both appliances all the time (one of them at least once a week, often both).

Pressure cookers are great because you can cook stuff ridiculously fast in them.  You can pressure cook potatoes to a completely soft state in like 5 minutes.*
Slow cookers are great at making meat really tender, but obviously it takes many hours to cook a roast in one.

*This does not include time to get the cooker up to pressure nor time to depressurize it, but neither process adds more than like 5-10 minutes tops.

[Ed Anger]

You kids with your instant gratification.

[Caliga]

Also, a modern pressure cooker in good repair should be totally safe.  They have pressure relief valve thingies in case there's a pressure buildup.