On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:49:42 -0800, pscissons wrote:
> "mimus" <tinmimus99@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:G_udndCbn96tUdvUnZ2dnUVZ_h-dnZ2d@giganews.com...
>
>> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:11:59 +0000, Tim Weaver wrote:
>>
>>> baxter wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Dec 15, 2:06 pm, mimus <tinmimu...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:52:40 +0000, Tim Weaver wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> mimus wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's 60 F, moonlit and windy right now, just gorgeous, just unreal.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's going to be 30 F tonight.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> By the pricking of my thumbs . . . .
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What's that last part mean? Something like arthritic people knowing
>>>>>> when it's going to rain due to pressure differential?
>>>>>
>>>>> It means when I look at the Mega-Clipper comin' on the radar and
>>>>> temperature charts it makes my thumbs tingle (dam' thing stabbed all
>>>>> the way South from Canada across the Great Plains to the _Gulf_,
>>>>> looks like).
>>>>>
>>>>> To give you some idea of the temperature-differential across the
>>>>> coming front, it was close to 60 F here today, and in St. Louis,
>>>>> about 300 miles West, it was 16 F.
>>>>>
>>>>> Although it's supposed to be warmed considerably by the time the
>>>>> lowest-temp part of it rolls over here, and we're not supposed to go
>>>>> much lower than freezing tonight.
>>>>>
>>>>> That jingling sound you hear is everyone's nerves as they batten
>>>>> down the hatches just in case.
>>>>
>>>> what you are saying is very intresting.
>>>>
>>>> please don't think me rude, i'm just not sure what you're talking
>>>> about.
>>>
>>> He's just griping because it's going to get **** cold at his place
>>> tonight. Claims just thinking about it makes his thumbs tingle. Have
>>> you ever heard of such nonsense?!? I think he just needs a good
>>> helping of fudge.
>>
>> Home-cooked "soup-beans and cornbread", a regional peasant favorite, in
>> this case pressure-cooked navy-beans and "Mexican" corn-bread with
>> sugar and cayenne and green-onion shreds in it, with onions and pickles
>> added, should do just as well.
>>
>> <sound of jiggly thing hissing>
>
> Hmmm, how do you do that? My pressure cooker instructions tell me NEVER
> to cook beans or rice in mine because they'll froth and plug up the
> jiggly hissing thing.
>
> BTW, your cornbread recipe sounds decidedly yummy.
>
> Smee
See reply to Tim's reply.
My instruction-booklet sez it's alright to do most beans and so on if you
pre-soak them overnight, which is for wimps (after all, one-a the charms
of pressure-cooking is cooking dried beans in about a half-hour or so).
Mostly, you do want to avoid things that make thick foam and can clog the
pressure-outlet, for the obvious reason (OTOtherH, the pressurized steam
itself does some self-cleaning of the outlet).
Or over-loading the cooker, ditto (the booklet says half-way at most for
foamy stuff-- I do up to approaching two-thirds, with some nervousness).
Which means reducing amounts of anything you're suspicious might foam (my
booklet actually has a recipe for doing Boston baked beans, which means
among other things adding molasses and sugar and, and-- it makes my blood
run cold to even think of sticking that in a pressure-cooker).
And, after all, if it blows, normally that just means you have a ceiling
to clean and a new cooker to buy . . . .
Some people pressure-cook with _oil_, usually meats, I guess, which is
what I believe KFC does, too, and which not only increases temperature
and pressure (I don't think a regular regulator/cooker works with that)
but adds a major fire-hazard to the equation (geyser of flaming oil,
anyone?) . . . .
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