Tonight I made chili in the pressure cooker. Not too impressed!
I had to do it in stages because the machine won't pressurize if more than 1/2 full with food. And that's pretty much down to the gram. A smidge over and it won't pressurize!
Anyway, I cooked the beans first, then put them in a strainer in the sink.
Then I cooked everything else. The ground beef was frozen.
I had a hard time getting it to get to pressure. I ended up having to take out 1 cup of liquid/food.
The recipe states that if you use frozen hamburger, that you have to break it up with a spoon. Well, that's not so easy. I ended up with huge chunks of ground beef about the size of ping pong balls! It would have taken forever to try and break it up like it would be when you cooked it from unfrozen state in a fry pan.
And because the beans were not cooked with the tomato mixture, it just doesn't work.
So I'll stick to using my slow cooker for chili!!
I had to do it in stages because the machine won't pressurize if more than 1/2 full with food. And that's pretty much down to the gram. A smidge over and it won't pressurize!
Anyway, I cooked the beans first, then put them in a strainer in the sink.
Then I cooked everything else. The ground beef was frozen.
I had a hard time getting it to get to pressure. I ended up having to take out 1 cup of liquid/food.
The recipe states that if you use frozen hamburger, that you have to break it up with a spoon. Well, that's not so easy. I ended up with huge chunks of ground beef about the size of ping pong balls! It would have taken forever to try and break it up like it would be when you cooked it from unfrozen state in a fry pan.
And because the beans were not cooked with the tomato mixture, it just doesn't work.
So I'll stick to using my slow cooker for chili!!
