[Magdalen] Indian (and other) English

[Clarissa Canning]

My mother had two sizes of these cookers and I was afraid of them but used
it never the less. Never used  one in my adult life thus far.


On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Roger Stokes <r.s.stokes.65 at cantab.net>
wrote:

> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Lynn Ronkainen" <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Sent: 02/03/2015 21:30:47
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Indian (and other) English
>
>  I remember the *one* time my mom used her new pressure cooker that Dad
>> gave her for Christmas (late 50s)... clearly something she had wanted....
>> all three of us stood in the kitchen while it whistled, steamed and roiled
>> on the electric burner, then the top blew off.... never used it again
>> (probably got rid of it). I have no idea what was in the pot.
>>
>
> One of the big problems with older style electric cookers is that you
> can't turn the heat down as soon as the pan gets to the correect
> temperature.  It will keep pushing out more heat for several minutes.  The
> valve on a pressure cooker has limited capacity to cope with this.
>
> Roger, not likeing the electric hob he now has.
>
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