I always cook beans and brown rice in mine.
I also make soup, chillis and puddings as not only is the cooking time faster but it also saves on electricty.
Right now Aldis has a stainless steel pressure cooker for $35.00!
I've been talking myself out of buying it, but maybe I can sell some unused cooking thing! I think I might use that...
I use my pressure cooker all the time for cooking everything from beans and grains to soups, stews, chili, stock, dessert, breakfast. I love my pressure cooker so much that I wrote a cookbook, The New Fast Food: The Veggie Queen Pressure Cooks Whole Food Meals in Less than 30 Minutes. I have recipes on my blog http://www.theveggiequeen.com/blog and my former blog http://www.pressurecooking.blogspot.com.
If you follow a vegetarian diet, the pressure cooker is your new best friend. After I started using one, I was hooked.
All I know is that you twist it off. It has a rubber gasket around the inside, maybe it' new and extra sticky or has gotten super stuck in storage? There should be an arrow on the lid and base that shows you what position the lid should be in to open or close. At least mine has one...
Do you have a very strong man at your disposal, by chance? Sometimes they're good at that sort of thing...
Also there is a handle bit on the top and the bottom, so the big handle separates and the lid handle turns away from the bottom handle. That would be an easy mistake to make, and an easy fix, so I hope it's that.
The rubber gasket was in the box. I see how the "tabs" are, and which way to turn it, but when I try and force it the bar across the top lifts up like it'll break if I continue.
I have the reciept...
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