How many of you own a pressure cooker? What you you like to cook in it most? Pot roast, veggies, dried beans?

I own two, they are both stainless steel and I'm using one now to cook some dried beans.

But I mainly like to do a pot roast and stew and sometimes collard greens in it as well.

Last time I used a pressure cooker, was close to 30 years ago when I worked as a cook at KFC (it was still called Kentucky Fried Chicken back then). It's an interesting fact that KFC use a method of cooking the chicken which involves deep frying inside a pressure cooker.

I don't own a pressure cooker, but I do have a slow cooker (crock pot)

Yeah, I think Col. Sanders had invented that idea.

One of the ones I got (the Fagor), can do that. I own a slow cooker as well!

Hey everyone..
I own a crock pot..that you can cook anything in..Chicken, potates, carrots..you can add rice..the list goes on from there with ham and beans to roast, you can even bake beans if you wish in a crock pot. Be sure though to put it on the stove for an all day cooking while being absent..

Thats safe and of course mid center the stove..otherwise use a marble cutting board to place the pot on if on a counter top. I still dont trust the crock pots especially on older counter tops..you need to feel under the crock pot after it gets hot and see what I am talking about. Its to risky..so when mine is in use I center it on the stove top and let it create delectable meals to come home to..mmmm that sounds good..have to break out the crock pot now..he-he..

Sherri

The pressure cooker is good because it helps you prepare something in a pinch, you know, something that you wouldn't have time to wait all evening for.

Like a luscious pot roast with veggies and brown gravy, giving you that slow cooked goodness in about a 1/3 of the time! Delish!!!

I'm a big fan of crockpots too - they are very affordable these days, and you can get really creative with them and make amazing things out of all kinds of ingredients. Throw it all in with a little common sense to guide you, and you can almost assure it will come out great. And individual ingredients come out tasting so much better then with traditional cooking methods. Carrots are a perfect example - so much more flavour in a carrot from a crock pot than any other cooking method.

I've used mine about four times this winter already and due to brew something up again today. Each time I use it I get meals for 5-6 dinners (and I am a big eater). Today's experiment is going to be something based on chicken, as all the others so far this season have been based on red meats plus once it was a straight vegetarian thing.

I think I own the biggest slow cooker of all - the Rival BBQ Pit Crock Pot Slow Cooker.

I'm so glad that I got it, because now the co has stopped making it!! But it makes the best fall-off-the-bone babyback ribs you ever had!

I can do large roasts in this unit as well, such as a pot roast, roast chicken or a fresh shoulder, all cooked to tendrt juicy perfection!!

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I modified the title of this thread a bit to include slow cookers, since some have begun to talk about them.