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> On Sep 16, 4:41 pm, "Christopher M." > wrote:
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>>> On 9/16/2012 9:23 AM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
>>>> I'm confused. I see now that electric pressure cookers have a 'slow
>>>> cooker' feature. Why? Isn't a pressure cooker simply another way of
>>>> doing what a slow cooker does, only faster? I've always had a
>>>> pressure cooker, it was part of my life growing up. I only tried
>>>> once to use a slow cooker. I really don't understand why one would
>>>> want both. Is there really a difference in results? Is there
>>>> anyone here who has/uses both?
>>>> Janet US
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>>> The reason they exist is because it's cheap to make this appliance a
>>> multi-function device. The slow cooker is for when you want to cook
>>> a dish without paying it much attention. The pressure cooker is
>>> fast but you have to be around to tend it.
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>>> Recently, I've been using my oven as a slow cooker by using
>>> temperatures below 250 degrees. Putting stuff in the oven and
>>> forgetting about it has a lot of appeal for me.
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>> Sometimes I imagine that my oven is a time machine for cooking food.
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>> W. Pooh (AKA Winnie P.)
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> When you cook like I do it is. It takes five minutes to put the rice
> and chicken together. I plug it in and forty minutes later, I got
> spicy curry chicken rice. I'm happy as a clam.

I used to make a tomato curry chicken. Very tasty recipe, but it needed
contant attention. I'd add an ingredient to the pan and then wait, stir, add
the next ingredient, etc.


W. Pooh (AKA Winnie P.)