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[coloradogal]

how do you use a pressure cooker?

lol.... well, I guess the first step is to get a pressure cooker. then you just follow the directions for whatever it is you want to cook. I'll try my pressure canner next time as it has a gauge. I'm just so very eggcited to finally have a way to make hard boiled eggs or in this case, hard steamed eggs.

 

[Adam7]

lol.... well, I guess the first step is to get a pressure cooker.   then you just follow the directions for whatever it is you want to cook.   I'll try my pressure canner next time as it has a gauge.   I'm just so very eggcited to finally have a way to make hard boiled eggs or in this case, hard steamed eggs.

I never knew it was difficult to hard boil fresh eggs. Do they just not set up right when you boil them?

 

[Rivmage]

I never knew it was difficult to hard boil fresh eggs. Do they just not set up right when you boil them?

My understanding is they cook correctly, just nearly impossible to peel.

Scott

 

[kmatt87]

does anyone happen to have a pattern for chicken diapers? I just had to order 1 because i don't have time to figure out the right way to do it for myself before needing one.

my sons class wants to see a live chicken/egg/chick so we're making a visit to the school soon. I don't want the chicken to poo all over so she's getting a diaper and i'm putting her on a leash. lol. The chick can stay in her box.

 

[ScottnLydia]

how do you use a pressure cooker?

Put food item and water in, close, heat to pressure, cook prescribed amount of time, cool enough to open, open.

Really, it's as simple as that! We use our pressure cooker to do all kinds of stuff, like brown rice, dry beans, all sorts of meat. We've never done hard boiled eggs though. It tenderizes tough cuts of meat, as well as cooks them super quick. Cook down chicken or turkey bones into stock in no time, while getting every ounce of flavor out of them. We make curry in 20 minutes!

You need a good pressure cooker (ours is Kuhn Rikon), and a good cookbook, like "Pressure Perfect" by Lorna Sass.

 

[coloradogal]

My understanding is they cook correctly, just nearly impossible to peel.

Scott

Very, very, very hard to peel fresh hard boiled eggs. There are whole threads on the horridness of having access to fresh eggs and not being able to have a fresh cooked egg. http://www.hippressurecooking.com/2011/04/hip-modernist-soft-medium-and-hard.html


http://thingsimadethenate.blogspot.com/2011/02/experiment-pressure-cooked-hard-boiled.html even better experiment on the whole hard boil egg mystery science

 

[suncatcher]

I have had good luck by putting hard boiled egg directly in ice and water, and more ice than water helps, swish it around for awhile. Have had fresh eggs peel easily that way. Tried just immersing them in very cold water, did not work.

 

[Adam7]

So I want to run a test batch of eggs through the bator so I am looking for fertile eggs. Safeway doesn't sell any so I'm off to whole foods to look!

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

So I want to run a test batch of eggs through the bator so I am looking for fertile eggs. Safeway doesn't sell any so I'm off to whole foods to look!

Let me know what you find at whole foods but the store I went to didn't have fertile eggs. Neither did Sprouts. :/

 

[Adam7]

Let me know what you find at whole foods but the store I went to didn't have fertile eggs. Neither did Sprouts. :/

Went to Natural Grocer. I found some eggs called "Farmers Hen House". The box says cage free Produced on Amish and Mennonite Family Farms. Read this on their website:

http://www.farmershenhouse.com/about/

Gonna open a few up when over home and check for fertility.