The smart choice for healthy, favorful meals, fast and easy. Cooks 3 to 10 times faster than ordinary cooking methods - even faster than a microwave for many foods. Chicken, fish, meat and vegetables cook to perfection fast. Helps tenderize economical cuts of meat. Works on regular and smooth-top ranges. Cover lock indicator shows when there is pressure inside the cooker and prevents the cover from being removed until pressure is safely reduced. Includes a special rack for cooking several foods at once with no intermingling of flavors. Dishwasher safe for easy cleaning. Liquid capacity: 8 quarts (7.6 liters).
Presto 8-Quart Stainless Steel Pressure Cooker Review :
This is a solid, basic stainless pressure cooker, that is quite a bargain at the $41.45 price (or $33 something after the $25 off $125 kitchen purchases).
Advantages:
Advantages:
- Easy to use flip pressure regulator for quick release of pressure
- Only has 15 lbs pressure that is adequate for normal pressure cooking
- Has handles on both sides that makes the cooker easy to carry and stable when full.
- won't interact with food product such as tomatoes.
- 8 qt. capacity gives 4 qts of capacity when cooking foaming products such as beans or lentils.
- Easier to clean than some pressure cookers I have used.
Disadvantages:
- Only cooks at 15 lbs of pressure, where some recipes call for only 10 lbs and would have to be adjusted.
- Most canning is done at 10 lbs pressure at sealevel and up to 1000 ft elevation
- I respectfully disagree that this cooker is meant for canning. It could process 3 or 4 pints in a pinch, but a 23 qt pressure cooker is the canning workhorse and will hold 19 pts or 7 qts. The manual suggests not canning in it, and it doesn't have a canning trivet included.
- It is much lighter weight than older Presto models, so I don't know if it will last as long as the old ones did.
Overall, it is a great pressure cooker for most cooking, and is a very good value.
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