Eating the rooster's

[BlueBaby]

Does that happen often? I mean, if your electricity is somewhat reliable, the electric one is the way to go. Turn it on and walk away. No need to monitor gauges, count jiggles, or whatever. But if your electricity is iffy all the time, this would probably not be the thing for you.

As stated above, I have an electric pressure cooker. Love it. Turn it on and walk away, I also have the other kind that I use for pressure canning. I have the giant one, and it's really just too big to cook a chicken in - unless I do several at a time. That has never occurred to me. I also have 3 different sizes of crock pots.

Sometime the electric goes off during thunder storms, as the landline goes out quite often after a good rain. Telephone company doesn't want to update the phone lines and think's that everyone should live on a smart phone.

 

[bobbi-j]

I got a pair of heavy duty game shears from TSC, if you can find them they are a lot better than any other poultry shears for the price.
I got lucky and found a 4qt presto pressure cooker at a garage sale for $5, never used in the box, looked like 1970's probably. A lot heavier duty than the new one's.
I think it's a matter of preference, those of us that grew up using regular pressure cookers and canners see how easy they are to use, and probably wouldn't know how to use a new one lol.
Those that haven't are scared of them and prefer electric. I've never heard of anyone having a misshap with the old style.
I have heard the electric one's aren't as fast?
Nice thing about the pressure cooker besides saved time is saved energy. Once that weight gets a hoppin you can turn the burner down on low and it still keeps it up to pressure/temp.
Like I said a plain ole crock pot slow cooker will do the same, just takes hrs.
I used one many times for old birds, my first couple attempts with the pressure cooker resulted in a mess of meat and little bitty bone soup, inedible except for straining for stock.
I had to get the timing down right, 15-20mins all it takes.
Easy to monitor doneness with the slow cooker, and even if you forget about it and the bird does fall apart you can carefully salvage the meat.

I'm not afraid of the stovetop pressure canner, it's just that I have the big one. Too much work to drag out to cook a chicken.

 

[Beer can]

Sometime the electric goes off during thunder storms, as the landline goes out quite often after a good rain. Telephone company doesn't want to update the phone lines and think's that everyone should live on a smart phone.

Our phone land line internet goes out everytime it rains hard, heard it's cause the pedestals where everyone's connect are bad, see people getting paid to work on them all the time but still same thing for yrs now... Phone still works but no internet, frustrating sometimes and no cell service here, dead zone.

 

[BlueBaby]

Our phone land line internet goes out everytime it rains hard, heard it's cause the pedestals where everyone's connect are bad, see people getting paid to work on them all the time but still same thing for yrs now... Phone still works but no internet, frustrating sometimes and no cell service here, dead zone.

So, I'm not the only one having problems with the older stuff. I do have an older dumb cell phone, but I leave it turned off most of the time. I only turn it on if I need it, and refused to be married to a cell phone. I do the internet on my desktop PC, and I don't download a bunch of aps.

 

[Beer can]

I'm not afraid of the stovetop pressure canner, it's just that I have the big one. Too much work to drag out to cook a chicken.

That's where the small cooker comes in handy, I have a big canner also wouldn't use it for cooking chicken lol, probably could fit a turkey in it.
My 4qt though wish it was just a little bigger sometimes. My JG roosters I have to cut the leg knuckles off about down to the meat in order to get them to fit.

 

[bigz1983]

Yes you can make anything that calls for chicken in a recipe out of rooster. Roosters are made out of chicken. lol

 

[trudyg]

bobbi-j I have 4 sizes of stove top pressure cookers and an instant pot as well! Also have every size of crock pot made, some with inserts that separate so you can cook pintos in part of it and something else in the other....Use that one a whole lot for food I take to work.

Beer Can I had a safety plug blow out once. Was canning and the jiggle didn't sound right, so I turned off the burner and made everyone leave the room until it was cool--and then the plug blew out and hit the ceiling. Made a good dent. Called Presto and they sent me a new plug and a new seal. Wish I could get a new weight for it tho, since I've lost all but one weight and have 3 cookers that use the same kind. My biggest canner has the clamps and a dial for pressure. Love them all.