2 liter stove top pressure cooker

[maki2]

Today's thrift store find was a little 2 litre capacity pressure cooker, a good size for a meal for one or two people. The brand I found "Hawkins"  is made in India so there are lots of recipes for this pressure cooker from that region created to be used in it. They make a 1.5 liter size but I have not found one of those ...yet.

Of course it cooks many things, soups, stew, rice, veggies and even lasagna or cornbread. Youtube has quite a long list of cooking-for-one pressure cooker,  recipes.

For the minimalist price of $2.00 I will have some fun experimenting. Not sure yet which ones of my recent thrift store cookware finds will end up being the ones that go full time on the road with me next fall. But I will be doing several  2 week or longer trips this summer before I head south for the winter.  If it does not make the "don't leave home without it" list it will be easy to find a new home for it with another RV dweller.

 

[Trebor English]

Usually pressure cookers are big, 6 to 8 quarts as I recall, and the normal amount being cooked doesn't fill the pot.  You don't want to fill the pot.  Some items make foam when cooking.  If the pot is too full the pressure regulator port can get fouled by the foam and not regulate correctly.  That can cause the relief valve to open.  Then your ceiling is smeared with black beans.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Today's thrift store find was a little 2 litre capacity pressure cooker . . . For the minimalist price of $2.00 . . .

Great find, great price :exclamation:

I cook with a 3 quart pressure cooker.  It's a great size for me.  I would think the 1.5L would be a little small.  One word of caution: Do.Not.Overfill.  There should be a max fill line etched inside.

Make or get an insulated bag for it; it can save a lot of fuel.  I make a meal and pressurize in the AM, put the pressure cooker in the bag on the passenger floor, and have a hot meal at lunch or a warm meal at the end of the day.  Or I reheat at noon for a hot meal at supper.

 

[maki2]

Listen up all you dire warning posters...

Unless someone has indicated they need help in understanding how something works please don't jump in and act as if they are a totally ignorant idiot who knows nothing about a subject.  Way too many people in this forum are doing that. People are very likely much smarter and have more skills than you think. Not all postings need to have long explanations of safety warnings included with them. Resist the urge to do that unless you know for sure that someone is risking their personal safety. You don't have a clue if I was or was not in danger of harming myself and here are the facts.

I learned how to safely use a pressure cooker in 1960. I was not presenting a cooking tutorial in this thread, I was only talking about finding a very small sized pressure cooker as shopping excursion find. If I had wanted to do a cooking tutorial I would have put in a brief statement such as..it is very important for your personal safety to always read and follow the directions given by the makers of pressure cookers. I assume people know how to read and follow written instructions...even if they are men

 

[B and C]

The dire warnings are for everyone reading this thread, not just you. This is not a closed forum where no one else can read it.

 

[Dingfelder]

The dire warnings are for everyone reading this thread, not just you.  This is not a closed forum where no one else can read it.

Exactly right on both counts.  A forum thread is a discussion open to all, not a private e-mail or whatever.  Deal with it.

P.S.:  Being high strung wins no friends.  And the issue of who is or isn't stupid is a non-sequitur.  Eschew obfuscation, especially when it's cranky.

 

[wagoneer]

I have a 2 liter stainless PC (political correct) works great for me...

 

[maki2]

Speculating that a 1.5 litre pressure cooker is useless for cooking meals?

Silly to leap to such a conclusion when you have not even tried cooking in one. You can easily see the proof of what you can do with one of these little pressure cookers.

Here is a youtube channel, cooking for one in a Hawkins 1.5 liter pressure cooker showing lots of things being made in one of the Hawkins 1.5 liter pressure cooker. My unit is slightly larger at 2 litres.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnISMcP6hCXwql4RBQeTOuw/videos

Beef stew from a Truck Bed Camper video

 

[rvwandering]

I've deleted some of the back and forth bickering.
For the record, the person who makes the original post does not have control over what other people can post. As long as the posts stay on topic and are respectful everyone can contribute.

 

[maki2]

Speculating that a 1.5 litre pressure cooker is useless for cooking meals?

Silly to leap to such a conclusion when you have not even tried cooking in one.  You can easily see the proof of what you can do with one of these little pressure cookers.

Here is a youtube channel, cooking for one in a Hawkins 1.5 liter pressure cooker showing lots of things being made in one of the Hawkins 1.5 liter pressure cooker. My unit is slightly larger at 2 litres.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnISMcP6hCXwql4RBQeTOuw/videos

Beef stew  from a Truck Bed Camper video  

I did my first Hawkins 2 liter pressure cooking experiment today by making rice. So very easy, very little fuel needed and only a little moisture was put out into the air during the cooking process with this method. I used my Gas One Mini Dual Fuel  portable cooktop for the heat source. The 2 liter sized pot is a great size for this cooktop.

My recipe
1 cup of white jasmine rice
1.5 cups of water

brought the sealed pot up to pressure on high heat (that took less than 2 minutes) and then reduced the flame and left on low heat for one minute before turning off the heat.

I waited 8 minutes, letting it cool down on its own to make sure the pressure was reduced so that it was safe to open

Result....perfectly cooked, fluffy rice for very little effort and very little fuel consumption.

Conclusion...it was just about as easy as boiling water other than measuring the rice and water

 

[bigsallysmom]

I made some jasmine rice just the other day on a house stove. 18 minutes to cook. So a pressure cooker sounds like a real gem.

 

[maki2]

I think you are right, it may well turn out to be one of my favorite camp kitchen "appliances".