Pressure cooker

• Free_is_better

  Got a 5 quart pressure cooker for Christmas. Problem is I am getting mixed answers on how to use it.
  
  So does anyone on here have experience using a pressure cooker? I really want to try it out and make some fried chicken.
• power i

  

  Pressure cookers scare me. I'm afraid they'll explode.
• Prescott

  You can make fried chicken in a frying pan. A pressure cooker is not a frying pan.
• dancinbear

  Prescott wrote: You can make fried chicken in a frying pan. A pressure cooker is not a frying pan.

  I dont know why, but that made me laugh.
• zhon44622

  Unless it is a pressure fryer cooker you are in for disaster.
• Prescott

  I dont know why, but that made me laugh.

  I'm glad that somebody thought that it was funny.
• tuskytuffguy

  Never thought anything tasted good made in a pressure cooker. Re-gift it.
• OneBuckeye

  

  a pressure cooker should be used for things that should be braised.... but the pressure cooker will do it much faster.
• gorocks99

  

  Just watch Iron Chef, those guys use pressure cookers like they're going out of style.
• DESCENTdmc

  gorocks99 wrote: Just watch Iron Chef, those guys use pressure cookers like they're going out of style.

  they use it to cook things that should take a long time to cook but need to be cooked within the 1 hour limit
• Dr Jones

  Free_is_better wrote: Got a 5 quart pressure cooker for Christmas. Problem is I am getting mixed answers on how to use it.
  
  So does anyone on here have experience using a pressure cooker? I really want to try it out and make some fried chicken.

  How do you cook "fried" chicken in a pressure cooker. I thought a pressure cooker worked by steam...
  Unless i am wrong this sounds like it could be very dangerous....
• DESCENTdmc

  im not positive but i think a pressure cooker and a pressure fryer cooker are two different things. i could be wrong though
  
  kfc, most delis/chicken shops in grocery stores and so on use a pressure fryer
• Free_is_better

  Dr Jones wrote:

  Free_is_better wrote: Got a 5 quart pressure cooker for Christmas. Problem is I am getting mixed answers on how to use it.
  
  So does anyone on here have experience using a pressure cooker? I really want to try it out and make some fried chicken.

  How do you cook "fried" chicken in a pressure cooker. I thought a pressure cooker worked by steam...
  Unless i am wrong this sounds like it could be very dangerous....

  Not sure that's why I was asking. I heard from someone that fried chicken is the best in a pressure cooker. Maybe I misunderstood them.
  
  It sounds like I should just ask for a gift reciept and get something else.
• 4cards

  

  ...Free_is_better, try this site.
  
  http://www.fabulousfoods.com/recipes/article/222/19975
  
  and there is always this to help