Comments on: A Few Food Shorts http://tleaves.com/2007/02/14/a-few-food-shorts/ Creativity x Technology Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:09:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: klyith http://tleaves.com/2007/02/14/a-few-food-shorts/comment-page-1/#comment-3703 klyith Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:34:54 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=779#comment-3703 Pressure cookers are teh win. They're generally better for doing the side dishes than whole meals, but they make many so easy. Mashed potatoes are the prime example: something that is a hassle to make normally, takes 20 minutes with a pressure cooker. (Same deal for butternut / winter squash.) Your lentil recipe is the same to make split pea soup. We don't use it as much for main course stuff, though you can do a pressure cooker stew that's about 75% as good as a dutch oven stew but takes a quarter of the time. Eh, if you have so much spare time that you want to dedicate yourself to "cuisine", a pressure cooker may not be your thing. But if you want to cook stuff in a short time, it's the weapon of choice. Pressure cookers are teh win. They’re generally better for doing the side dishes than whole meals, but they make many so easy. Mashed potatoes are the prime example: something that is a hassle to make normally, takes 20 minutes with a pressure cooker. (Same deal for butternut / winter squash.) Your lentil recipe is the same to make split pea soup. We don’t use it as much for main course stuff, though you can do a pressure cooker stew that’s about 75% as good as a dutch oven stew but takes a quarter of the time.

Eh, if you have so much spare time that you want to dedicate yourself to “cuisine”, a pressure cooker may not be your thing. But if you want to cook stuff in a short time, it’s the weapon of choice.

]]> By: kim http://tleaves.com/2007/02/14/a-few-food-shorts/comment-page-1/#comment-3702 kim Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:01:11 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=779#comment-3702 I believe even Alton Brown approves of pressure cookers and he hates anything that can't multi-task in the kitchen. I have not been brave enough to give one a try though. I believe even Alton Brown approves of pressure cookers and he hates anything that can’t multi-task in the kitchen. I have not been brave enough to give one a try though.

]]> By: Jonathan Perret http://tleaves.com/2007/02/14/a-few-food-shorts/comment-page-1/#comment-3701 Jonathan Perret Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:55:44 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=779#comment-3701 Hrmph. Apology accepted. :) Hrmph. Apology accepted.

:)

]]> By: Chili&Vanília http://tleaves.com/2007/02/14/a-few-food-shorts/comment-page-1/#comment-3700 Chili&Vanília Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:53:38 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=779#comment-3700 Hi, I'm glad you liked the goulash recipe -I'm so sure that I'm right with it because I'm Hungarian, I cooked it like thousend times and that's how this dish is cooked by everyone in my country:) Zsofi Hi, I’m glad you liked the goulash recipe -I’m so sure that I’m right with it because I’m Hungarian, I cooked it like thousend times and that’s how this dish is cooked by everyone in my country:) Zsofi

]]> By: rlink http://tleaves.com/2007/02/14/a-few-food-shorts/comment-page-1/#comment-3699 rlink Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:52:23 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=779#comment-3699 Pressure cookers are great for cooking an entire chicken in 20 minutes. I wouldn't recommend it for chicken that is to be served whole or in pieces, but I use it when I make a vat of Paprikash or something else that requires loose chicken meat. A canning insert (basically, a rack to keep the glass jars up off the floor of the vessel and prevent them from banging around into each other) makes preserving the excess garden harvest a cinch. Also, a chef friend let me in on a dirty little pressure cooker secret: stock can be made in a few hours and is virtually indistinguishable from stuff that's simmered on the range for 14 hours. Pressure cookers are great for cooking an entire chicken in 20 minutes. I wouldn’t recommend it for chicken that is to be served whole or in pieces, but I use it when I make a vat of Paprikash or something else that requires loose chicken meat.

A canning insert (basically, a rack to keep the glass jars up off the floor of the vessel and prevent them from banging around into each other) makes preserving the excess garden harvest a cinch.

Also, a chef friend let me in on a dirty little pressure cooker secret: stock can be made in a few hours and is virtually indistinguishable from stuff that’s simmered on the range for 14 hours.

]]> By: vextorspace http://tleaves.com/2007/02/14/a-few-food-shorts/comment-page-1/#comment-3698 vextorspace Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:46:55 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=779#comment-3698 I had a rice cooker once. The only thing I ever used it for was steaming vegetables. I did a better job of cooking rice with a pot than it did. Pressure cookers are excellent at giving you bad burns! I had a rice cooker once. The only thing I ever used it for was steaming vegetables. I did a better job of cooking rice with a pot than it did.

Pressure cookers are excellent at giving you bad burns!

]]> By: psu http://tleaves.com/2007/02/14/a-few-food-shorts/comment-page-1/#comment-3697 psu Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:21:11 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=779#comment-3697 1. Rice cookers are different. 2. I'm sure the pressure cooker can do other things. I'm just too dim to have figured any of them out yet. I guess I should have said that they are just a bit "specialized". Although that doesn't really help. 1. Rice cookers are different.

2. I’m sure the pressure cooker can do other things. I’m just too dim to have figured any of them out yet.

I guess I should have said that they are just a bit “specialized”. Although that doesn’t really help.

]]> By: Jonathan Perret http://tleaves.com/2007/02/14/a-few-food-shorts/comment-page-1/#comment-3696 Jonathan Perret Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:37:49 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=779#comment-3696 I'm shocked. How can you claim wih a straight face that my beloved CocotteMinute "only really does one thing" when you (or could it have been your acolyte ? I'm sorry, I just can't get myself to distinguish between the both of you) routinely advocate the purchase of a *rice cooker* ? Seriously. I’m shocked.

How can you claim wih a straight face that my beloved CocotteMinute “only really does one thing” when you (or could it have been your acolyte ? I’m sorry, I just can’t get myself to distinguish between the both of you) routinely advocate the purchase of a *rice cooker* ?

Seriously.

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