What is the minimum amount of liquid that must be added to the 5 liter cooker?
289633
I would suggest no less than one cup; check the company website.I have 2 of these cookers, great products.
289634
Dear Stevek, I have the 3.5 quart size. The booklet says for meats use 2oz. For vegetables use 4 oz. For other foods you can add more water. Mostly what I did was experiment. I noticed that foods cooked in the pressure cooker tend to cook out a lot of liquid, similar to a slow cooker. So, over time you get accustomed to adding just a small amount of water, probably less than one cup. However, when cooking dried beans that have been soaked you do need water to cover and I like to cook them for about 1 hour on the first red marker. Enjoy your Rikon! Nancy
289635
It depends what your cooking. Usually enough to reach 3/4 of your food. If there isn't enough liquid it won't reach the proper pressure. I cooked potatoes with the plate in and I put the liquid just above the vegetable plate mark and it was enough. I only had two medium potatoes. Hope this helps
1029509
Minimum: hydrometer vial, 5-gallon capacity kettle, bottles and caps, ingredients. Useful: auto-siphon, wort chiller, stir spoon, aerator, carboy brush, large funnel, strainer or hop/grain bags, GAC water filter (if using municipal water).
437747
You are not supposed to use just one cup. If you use it correctly, it might work. The minimum is .5 liters which is a little over two cups. So many people seem not to follow instructions
611071
approx 1 liter, depends on how many you cook at one time. If we have alot to cook, we add more.
2220933
You will need bottles, fermenting vessel (5 gal carboy or bucket) and airlock, a bottling bucket and wand, a syphon, a pot to boil in, a heat source that can boil that much water and somthing to stir (large ss spoon)
1407660
It is a 2 liter cooker. Comes very handy for quick cooking of dals or boiling a potato.
1680963
The bottom of my Magefesa Practika Plus pressure cooker is stamped "3.2L/3.3Qt." However, the Maximum Fill Line inside the pot is less. I took an empty 1 liter soda bottle and filled it with water to the maximum fill line. The result was using approximately 2.25 bottles to reach that line, so the capacity, if using under pressure, is somewhere between 2.25 and 2.33 liters. Just right for two people! But if you are using large cuts of meat, you may want to get the 6Qt. model. I have that one too and it is great for one pot dinners.
217223
The Prestige pressure cooker I bought is 10 liter and the dimensions are height 9", diameter 10", hence I would assume the 5.5 liter pressure cooker has a height of 4" and a diameter of 5", that would be my best guess.
1249200
To hold six quarts, you must fill it all the way to the very top, spilling over. Filled only to the ledge, on top of which the cover rests, it will only hold five quarts. Apparently, this a very common misrepresentation of slow cookers' true cooking capacity.
1266454
The instruction manual says to use AT LEAST 1/2 cup or more of water when using this cooker to prevent food from sticking.
341258
The liter refers to how much fluid the pressure cooker can hold. 1 liter is about 34 ounces or .264 gallons so a 4 liter would be about 1 gallon. Hope this helps :)
1815586
It says there is a .5L minimum, however, after I read your question I tried it. I put exactly 1 cup of water in it, it was slightly below the minimum line, and it boiled the single cup for me.
1723897
I would take this as an exception to the rule. You're not adding much oil if it's just a teaspoon. You don't want much foaming or it could plug up the vent with food particles. Remember that you will sometimes be cooking meats that have some fat that will render into oil, so it's not like a little oil will damage the cooker. I agree that the wording could have been written better.
604950
The capacity listed on the pot is 7.5 L or 7.9 Quarts. You can only fill to 2/3 capacity to allow proper functioning but we have never filled it more than 1/2 full.
832283
I don't have time to do the arithmetic for you. A liter is only slightly more than a quart, about 1%. When you realize that manufacturers measure capacity of cookware to it's maximum, not to a practical capacity, you can realistically read liters as quarts. In other words think of a 4 liter pot as a 4 quart pot and you'll be fine.
2273250
I have never canned anything, so I don't know. If you take 50% of 10 quarts (20 pints) you have 10 pints, and allowing extra room for the jars would suggest 6 to 8 pints. That should leave adequate empty space for the pressure to build and the canning process to be successful. Perhaps someone else could give a better answer.
1000813
it depends on your quantity also.1 cup say 4oz of beans need to be soaked overnight and 2 liter cooker will be quite small for that.you need 4 cups of 3oz minimum water.but I won't recommend cooking more then that or it will spill.if you just want for salad no gravey then you must soak it overnight with pich of baking soda.boil them with enough water without the pressure and then after 20 mints cover it with pressure cooker.it will take 30 mints on medium flame. un soaked beans is not good idea to cook as it might spoil the gasket and the air pressure switch.you must soak them in hot water for minimum 20 mints with baking soda.still will suggest you to do everything on bigger pressure cooker at least 4 liter.check you tube also for further help.