Kuhn Rikon 2 1/2-Liter Stainless Steel Pressure Cooker
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| Kuhn Rikon 2 1/2-Liter Stainless Steel Pressure Cooker |
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| Manufacturer: Kuhn Rikon |
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| List Price: $220.00 |
| Sale Price: $149.95 |
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Product Description |
| This is not your grandmother's pressure cooker. After two generations of busy cooks employed pressure cookers to prepare family meals, the next generation--with memories of valves dancing and hissing on stovetops--then snubbed pressure cookers. Now pressure cookers have come back, those old valves replaced by modern versions that ensure safety while delivering the speed, ease, and nutritional benefits of pressure cooking. This heavyweight 18/10 stainless-steel beauty is a fine example of contemporary engineering and style. Its mirror finish gleams, and its black handles stay cool. Its spring valve doesn't hiss unless too much steam has built up and the heat needs turning down. Two other valves offer backup safety, and the top automatically locks until all pressure has been released. Pressure-cooking traps steam to heat foods at temperatures higher than boiling. This cooker has an aluminum disk sandwiched by stainless steel in its base to speed the process even more through fast heat conductivity. Little water is required, so nutrients, flavor, and color are not boiled away. At 9-3/4 inches in diameter and 3 inches deep, this 2-1/2-liter (2.65-quart) cooker resembles a deep frying pan. A waffle pattern on the bottom releases food quickly after browning. Cleanup is a bit involved: hand wash the cooker, rubber gasket, and lid with a mild detergent; lightly oil the gasket. Minor cleaning inconvenience, however, should not overshadow the major convenience of pressure cooking. Accompanying the cooker is a 92-page pressure-cooking recipe booklet. --Fred Brack |
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Kuhn Rikon 2 1/2-Liter Stainless Steel Pressure Cooker Details |
- Quickly and healthfully cooks foods under steam pressure with little liquid
- 18/10 stainless steel; aluminum disk on bottom for quick, even heating
- Automatic lid lock won't release until pressure is released
- Three pressure-release valves and pressure indicator ensure safety
- 92-page pressure-cooking recipe book included
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Customer Reviews For Kuhn Rikon 2 1/2-Liter Stainless Steel Pressure Cooker |
 pressure frying |
| Review Date: December 18, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Mark Power, |
Right from the get-go this pressure frying pan worked great. I felt sort of on my own because there aren't a lot of pressure frying recipes out there. But I am an experienced pressure cooker user so I felt fairly confident jumping in. One of my favorites is slow-roasted tomatoes, 2 hours or so in the oven - 7 minutes in the PC frying and I couldn't tell the difference. A beautiful job of frying potatoes, 5 minutes prep, 2-3 minutes browning potatoes, 5 minutes PC and you're ready to go. In other words you can brown and pressure cook with oil with this pan and when you add water, you add a lot less than with a regular PC. it's a well-made unit which you would expect for the price.
Those are the pros, the cons:
Instruction book inferior like many from Europe. Almost nothing about the frying pan and I find some of the suggested times to be a bit off too. Recipe book mixes in a few frying pan recipes with regular PC recipes which makes them hard to find. They need a separate frying pan instruction book and separate recipes for FP.
There is a little safety valve which comes unattached to the top. Difficult to find clear instructions on how to attach and once attached has a tendency to fall off. Poor design.
because of 'dimpled' bottom of FPPC no trivet is included as with other KR PC's.( Dimpled bottom supposedly acts as a trivet.) But some of FP recipes call for a trivet so it should be included.
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High Cost poor quality
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| Review Date: March 22, 2010 |
| Reviewer: J. Busse, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA USA |
Because of the really high cost and all the hype the about these pans you would think they were constructed out of gold. But they aren't. The gasket material is fragile, The fit is not very good and the handles don't even have metal inserts where they attach to the lid. (the heat differential between the lid and handle causes movement and stress the pulls the screws out of the handle and because the material crumbles you require a new handle at $16 plus shipping every 2 years of regular use or so. The lousy lid screws just self tap into the bakelite handle which almost guarantees they will fail. The other pressure cookers I own like the Fagor do have inserts and the lid handle has never failed on that cooker. I am on my second handle in 4 years with the Kuhn Rikon.
Other things that failed on this pan were the top finishing plate (plastic snap on fitting broke), and the gasket twice (KH says this is normal).
Looking on the web one can see I am not alone. There are handles, gaskets, and spare parts in many sites. They are not cheap either. I guess the steel used in the pot is OK It has never failed but it seems every thing else has in the four years I have used this. Comparing it to the 5L Fagor which I use for large meals probably more often than the KR, the engineering in the KH is really inferior. The score for maintenance over 4 years is Fagor $0.00 vs Kuhn Rikon $80. You'd think the Swiss could design something better. This is my last KH product. The Fagor line is 1/3 the price. |
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