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Great Do-It-All Electric Pot
• Great: included a backup silicone gasket. This is great because I know that when the first one fails I don’t have to worry about finding / purchasing a replacement. It’s a sign the company didn’t design the parts to fail so they could make money selling replacements… they gave you a replacement free of charge. For some reason the product indicates that it comes with a rubber gasket and a backup silicone one. They are both actually silicone (better than rubber) but one is white and one is blue – don’t know the rational for the different colors.• Great: All the sides of the pressure cooker are insulated and only become slightly warm to the touch. This is exactly what I wanted! I hate that the crockpots that I had in the past dumped heat into my house on the sides and the lid like a heater all summer long while I was using them. Not having this thing heating my house in the summer when I am running the air conditioner will definitely reduce my air-conditioning bill.• Great: The cooking portion of the bowl appears to be Electro-polished it is so shiny. Nice touch. It also has well marked / easy to read gradients on it that are helpful.• Great: There is a ceramic, or porcelain, or equivalent coating on the inside of the heater that the cooking bowl sits in. Fantastic for cleaning and insulating.• Great: Design actually incorporates a safety so that if the vessel is being used as a pressure cooker and is pressurized you cannot accidentally open the thing up. It won’t unlock until the pressure drops and the red pressure indicator moves out of the way of the latch.• Great: the silicone gasket on the pressure cooker is on a metal structure that keeps it in place when you open it up. On the old stove top version I had the gasket had to be pushed in place and would fall out when washing it.• Ran the test that they suggested to get used to the pressure cooker workings. With the 3 cups of water in it, it only took 5 min 40 sec. for the steam to begin venting and a couple seconds later it self-sealed as it should. At the point the external sides of the pressure cooker had not heated at all and the external metal portion of the lid was only marginally warm to the touch. At 7 min 15 sec. the cook timer started and by 12:15 it was done with the entire cycle. At the end, the external sides had only increased in temperature a few degrees and the external lid metal parts were very warm to the touch but not burning upon touching. Just what I wanted!• Great: I had a small issue that I contacted the seller “The Connected Home” about. They were extremely quick to answer the problem and I was very happy.• Great: They included a tempered glass lid that can be used when the pot is being used as a crockpot. I only wish the design had been made so that the pressure cooker lid would fit over the tempered glass lid so that they could be stored as a single unit rather than the glass lid being stored elsewhere.• Great / Blahh: They included a steamer basket with high walls which was really nice and useful (I don’t believe the competition includes one). Unfortunately they didn’t put legs on it that were high enough to keep your vegetables out of the water in the bottom of the pot when using it as just a steamer. It should stand at minimum 0.5 to 1 inch off the bottom of the pot to keep you vegetables out of the water. I will be using the steaming tray from my old stove top pressure cooker to set underneath the steamer to raise it up out of the water.• Blahh: I see no purpose for the plastic spoon and measuring cup. They are cheap plastic and were immediately given to my 3 year old daughter to play in the sand box with. The competitor’s equivalent products are low quality also.• Strange Design – the Pressure Limiting Valve design seems floppy and I actually thought that it was defective till I talked to the company and then went to see their competitors in the store only to find their competitors equivalent part was pretty much the same design. If I were redesigning this I would definitely update the design.• Strange Aspect: to tighten the pressure cooker lid you turn it counter-clockwise and to open it you turn it clock-wise. This is the opposite of everything in life that is righty-tighty, lefty-loosy. Takes some getting used to.• All in all, I would highly recommend the “Mueller Pro Series 6Q Pressure Cooker Instant Crock 10 in 1 Pot.” It was a great Cyber Monday deal for “ate-ie” bucks.Currently (4/26/19) waiting on a response from Mueller regarding a problem with the cord.
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Saves time & electricity, versatile, fun, love it, we use it almost every day
Years ago I had a fantastic pressure cooker that was stolen by one of my housemates when he moved. I looked for years for a replacement. At one point I bought a Presto, an expensive one, and the handle broke after a few uses. I was shocked that it could break so easily (I wasn't pulling hard). I was discouraged to have lost two pressure cookers and was reluctant to waste so much money again.When I saw the Mueller cooker, with a top-style lid and handle rather than the kind that sticks out the side I thought, "That's less likely to break." I bought one.We're very happy with the purchase. Here are some details...When we opened the box, it was not quite clear how to assemble the glass lid properly, but we figured it out. Also, we didn't realize at first that the pressure lid came with an extra gasket. We were looking for where to install the second gasket, then realized it was a spare and stored it away.There is a safety issue with all pressure cookers... Keep children and pets away from the pot when it's in pressure-cook mode. The pressure valve lets out a blast of steam if you touch it while it's in full cook mode (this is true of all pressure cookers). A curious child or cat could get scalded. When it's on the counter, make sure the steam valve is not underneath a cupboard (or anything else). Never put your face near the steam valve, ever. If you are letting off the steam to have it pressure down faster (it's okay to do this), be very careful or use an oven mitt. Or just leave it and do something else while the pressure dies down.Another safety issue is to not overfill it, or to cook large amounts of food that foam. I think they caution against lentils, but I've had no trouble cooking them as long as it's a small amount.So far, everything we've cooked has turned out great. We use it for rice, soups, stews (many different kinds). We buy a whole (small) chicken, pressure-cook it with potatoes (or barley), onions, and a chopped up yam, then let the pressure out, add vegies and spices, switch to the glass lid and then Slow Cook for 15 minutes and voila! dinner and leftovers. Wonderful. So easy once you get used to it and much less electricity than stove-top cooking. Due to the built-in timer, I can set it and go do something else. I don't have to worry about checking or stirring. It doesn't explode like an old-style stove-top pressure cooker if you get distracted.I like the design of the handle. You press the button and it unlocks it and you turn it (don't try to do this unless the pressure has been let off or has died down on its own). This handle is not likely to break. Yay.Lots of settings, but we mostly use Rice, Slow Cook, and Stew and Soup settings. The Keep Warm feature is a plus. In fact, even with the Keep Warm setting off, the pot stays warm a long time. It seems to be well insulated.We did not notice any toxic smell when we opened it or during use, as some people have mentioned. It cleans up well (we don't use abrasive scrubbers or soaps on stainless steel, something I learned when I was a short-order cook in my college days), just soak the pot and use a *soft* scrubby (the crocheted-hemp kind is really good), or a cloth to wash it.One of the best kitchen accessories we own and we haven't even tried every setting yet. Very happy so far. We hope it will last many years.
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