Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 13:47:42 -0700
Reply-To: Al Knoll <anasasi@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Al Knoll <anasasi@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: 12V Slow Cooker Tests
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Under the seat is a Mdl 40 Presto cooker. The ancient wooden handles
stow neatly inside. It's been modified to accept a Mirro Jiggler
(5-10-15 PSI) It has served me and probably many others well. It
gets inspected often. Perfect for those Red Mountain Pass anasazi
beans. Or every bodies favorite, Lengua con chipotle. Does
artichokes in 10min. Brown rice in 5min. Black beans, bunnyquick,
pre-soaking controversy can be found below.
Now if I can just remember where I put that study on Waldheimers
disease, or my reading glasses or the spare car keys, or what I was
just thinking. Yes I cook in aluminum and yes acidic foods will
slightly dissolve aluminum, the attributed long term affects are
wrinkly skin, falling hair, presbyopia, diminished capacities and
horrid age spots, and the onset of continental drift dementia. Hey,
you gotta blame somebody!
The major trick to using the jiggler kind is to not leave the
premises, follow the rules of what NOT to cook in your Mdl 40 and how
much to put in it. Oh yeah, listen for the jiggler's refrain. If it
stops, something is amiss, pull the pot off the fire and let it cool.
Do not open until you can touch it with a bare hand. It could be
plugged or it could be dry. Either case will result in a full sixpack
of unpleasantness. Use a timer and take it with you so you don't
overcook which will result in a mediochre, easily masticated mess of
previously palatable provisions. Very offputting if it was your last
bag of butterbeans and you're just south of Barcroft Laboratory in the
White Mountains at 12000ASL
The Mdl 40 doubles as a spill resistant container to pre soak beans,
lintels, limpets, or sox. Just put the goodies in, add the soaking
liquid, attach the top and the jiggler and secure it to the side of
the pottybox or something. Drive merrily along and the goodies are
soaked/washed as you wander.
In a pinch you can use it to allow your sourdough to rise more
vigorously by placing Mdl 40 with cover in the sun and checking often.
Of course without the lid attached it's a fine pot in it's own or with
the lid attached and no jiggler it can simmer without losing or
loosing too much liquid.
What do you cook in your vanagon and outside your vanagon?
Pensionerd.
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