| |  | Kitchen & Housewares Presto 8-Quart Stainless Steel Pressure Cooker/Canner |  | | | | | | | | | | Rating:  - Good as the old style!
I was hesitant to buy this as it is so different from the Presto Cooker I've used for 40years. I am so pleased with this cooker. It works a tad bit different but once I got it figured out, no problems whatsoever. I love it.Thanks Presto!
Rating: - Presto 01370 8-Quart Stainless Steel Pressure Cooker/Canner
This is the first pressure cooker I have owned. I'm using it as an autoclave so far but I plan to cook with it eventually. The quality seems very high. The instruction manual is well laid out and easy to understand. Parts are easily available. It's very easy to use and seems very safe. I recommend it.
Rating: - Great pressure cooker!
My son asked for a pressure cooker for Christmas last year, and after a lot of research, this is the one I bought.I highly recommend this item!My son uses it at least 4 times a week, and loves it!I also bought him a rice cooker and returned it as he says he doesn't need any other cooking device because this does it all!
Rating: - Great Pressure cooker - even for high altitudes
I use this Pressure Cooker at 6500ft.I found the adjustments that needed to be made at the Presto website:
Q. Are there any adjustments that need to be made when pressure cooking at high altitudes?
A. When pressure cooking at altitudes over 2000 feet, the cooking time should be increased. Increase cooking times 5% for every 1000 feet above 2000 feet. Increase cooking times as follows:
3000 ft: 5% 4000 ft: 10% 5000 ft: 15%
6000 ft: 20% 7000 ft: 25% 8000 ft: 30%
Rating: - Quality Basic Pressure Cooker
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:
*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.
*Stainless 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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