KUHN RIKON Duromatic Stainless Steel Pressure Cooker, 5 Quart, Silver

This Kuhn Rikon pressure cooker can speed up your cooking time by up to 60 percent and save energy. It takes the guesswork out of cooking your meals, featuring an automatic locking system and a spring-loaded precision valve for user-friendly operation. The cooker also boasts five safety steam-release systems and two heat-resistant handles for ultimate safety. Crafted with stainless steel construction, it ensures durability and also features an aluminum core for rapid heat absorption and even browning. This pressure cooker is perfect for making stocks, risotto, roasts, and even cheesecakes. Backed by a ten-year limited warranty, it comes with the Quick Cuisine cookbook for even more recipe ideas.

The pressure cooker has an 8-3/4" diameter and a 5-1/4 quart capacity. Beginning in the 1930s, two successive generations of busy cooks used pressure cookers to prepare family meals. The next generation, however, with memories of valves dancing and hissing on stovetops, snubbed pressure cookers. Now, pressure cookers have made a comeback, with old valves replaced by modern versions that ensure safety while delivering the speed, ease, and nutritional benefits of pressure cooking. Pressure cooking also saves 70 percent of the energy normally consumed while cooking.

This heavyweight, stainless-steel beauty is a fine example of contemporary engineering and style. Its mirror finish gleams, and its black handles, including a loop handle for two-handed lifting, stay cool. Pressure-cooking traps steam to heat foods at temperatures higher than boiling. An aluminum disk in the base, sandwiched by stainless steel, speeds the process even more through fast heat conductivity. It's safe on electric, gas, ceramic, and induction stovetops. Little water is required, so nutrients, flavor, and color are not boiled away. Vegetables emerge vibrantly colored from the steamer insert. Stews, soups, beans, meat loaf, pork chops, and even desserts such as bread pudding come out tasty and nutritious. A booklet containing dozens of recipes is included.

You can brown meats in the pot before the lid is locked on, or use the pot without the lid. The stem of the operating valve shows high and low pressure, allowing you to adjust the heat for different foods. After cooking, the pressure can be reduced slowly, normally, or quickly. Safety measures abound: the lid twists onto the pot, and a rubber gasket ensures a tight seal. A vent releases steam if pressure builds too high, and a valve also locks the lid when any pressure is inside the cooker. Cleanup is a bit involved, but the minor inconvenience should not overshadow the major convenience of pressure cooking.

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