We've suddenly discovered pressure cooking! – We've never pressured cooked before (although we both grew up in households 30 years ago when our mothers used them extensively) so we have nothing to compare this pressure cooker too. All we can really say is that each time we've used it we've been blown away. We bought one off the display and the instruction/recipe book was missing but I guess it was intuitive enough for us to get working with it right away. The instruction book was later found and we picked it up after about a fortnights use. By that stage we only needed it to help us finesse some of our technique. It cleans easily, works quickly and looks at home when we have it out on the kitchen bench. It's also way lighter than Mum's old thing! Time will tell how durable the non stick surface and soft rubber seal will be. It's also pretty versatile - we used it as a steamboat the other night and had a great time!
OK - a bit of an update - I'd welcome a Philips official to chime in here... Reluctantly, my opinion about the 3 in 1 has changed and is now somewhat different to my glowing opinion when we first started using it.
Suddenly, almost overnight, the cooker stopped functioning as it had done for the first 20 times we used it.
Usually we start by using the saute mode to brown off a bit a meat, add water and other ingredients (depending on what we are making), change the saute mode to pressure cook, put the lid on, make sure the knob it turned to pressure cook mode and then forget about it. Before long, steam starts leaking from the valve, increases with intensity and the finally pops up coinciding with the display reading "maintain pressure" and starting it's count down.
Now, doing nothing different we no longer experience the increasing intensity of the steam escaping from valve until it pressure pops it up. The cooker will persist through it's full cycle and start counting down through the "maintain pressure" cycle even though the valve hasn't popped up indicating the cooker is pressurised. At first, to resolve the issue I used a toothpick to gently lift the valve until enough pressure built up for the valve to remain up and contain the pressure - then everything worked as it should.
After further examination and trying to diagnose what was happening I also realised that the lid (even though it was fully rotated in the closed position) still had some "give" in it. In other words, now, instead of lifting the valve with a toothpick to get the pressure up, all I need to do it press the lid down onto the cooker (it drops by at least another 1mm) and the pressure immediately builds and starts behaving at it should.
So, I am at loss as to know what has changed. We clean everything meticulously, the seal is still nice and soft, nothing has been dropped and bent, the valve moves freely. Has anyone else experienced this. If so - how did you resolve it?
Cheers Deano
Hi Deano, we are sorry to hear that your wonderfully positive review changed after having used the pressure cooker for a while longer. We are glad though that reached out to us and that you took the time to update your review as feedback is always important to us. Would you please call 1300 363 391 (Australia) or 0800 658 224 (New Zealand) so we can assist you further? Kind regards, The Philips Australia Team.
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Thanks for your kind words Deano! :)